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Title: Changing the bpm of samples
Post by: cowparsleyman on January 21, 2019, 12:28:30 PM

Say you have a dance track @ 135 bpm, and you want to import a sample that was recorded at 120 bpm, how do you go about changing it to 135, keeping the original quality?

Thanks in advance.

Rich

Title: Re: Changing the bpm of samples
Post by: Skub on January 21, 2019, 12:36:03 PM

When I drag it into the project it conforms to the beat.

Using Logic Pro X.

Title: Re: Changing the bpm of samples
Post by: pompeyjazz on January 21, 2019, 01:14:53 PM

Check out the Loopmaster vst. It's free. You can do all kinds of fiendish manipulations with samples

Title: Re: Changing the bpm of samples
Post by: cowparsleyman on January 21, 2019, 02:14:12 PM

Thanks Gents, very useful, I have a few ways that I can do this, and I'm not that sold by any of them...Elastique Pro, Melodyne etc.

Rich

Title: Re: Changing the bpm of samples
Post by: pompeyjazz on January 21, 2019, 04:26:20 PM

Well worth a play...

https://www.loopcloud.net/loopcloud-download

Title: Re: Changing the bpm of samples
Post by: cowparsleyman on January 23, 2019, 12:29:59 PM

@pompeyjazz (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=20269) - Hi John, I downloaded this, and installed it, but it looks like it's a 32bit plugin, and I want to avoid using the 32bit Bridge that makes may DAW rather unstable, thanks for the tip though.

I have tried a few of the ways that are available in my DAW, but the detection of the sample bpm is rather open to error, mostly identifying it as half tempo, Melodyne will be able to do this, although it's been a while since I played with the tempo map function. Another way is to use Elastique pro time stretching, and then calculating what bpm it should be by entering a factor, but that still depends on sensing the correct bpm in the first place.

Thanks again John

Rich

Title: Re: Changing the bpm of samples
Post by: pompeyjazz on January 23, 2019, 03:05:38 PM

@cowparsleyman (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=21308)

Rich, looks like 64 bit version is available.
See here

https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2018/05/02/loopcloud-2-0-released/

Title: Re: Changing the bpm of samples
Post by: cowparsleyman on January 23, 2019, 03:07:09 PM

@pompeyjazz (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=20269) - Now that's promising, thanks John, do I need an loopcloud account to use it?

Rich

Title: Re: Changing the bpm of samples
Post by: pompeyjazz on January 23, 2019, 03:41:55 PM

I guess so but it's free

Title: Re: Changing the bpm of samples
Post by: cowparsleyman on January 25, 2019, 01:12:07 PM

Thanks @pompeyjazz (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=20269)

I revisted my DAW manual for doing this and there's a few ways to do it, and I'll be trying them out again, in an methodical approach, I have to know how to do this as second nature,

btw Brainworx Stereomaker is one hell of a plugin....

Rich