I've got a track recorded by someone that is quite loosely played and has some timing issues that I need to fix.
I can't really ask him to do it again as it was a session and he's using some weird tuning, so I'm not sure I could play it again either. Basically, I like what he's done, but need to fix the rhythm a bit so it sits with the vocal better.
Any ideas what the best approach to this is? Things I've considered:
1) Going through each bit and moving and adjusting dodgy sections manually - seems very time consuming and quite tricky to only fix the bad bits without ruining the feel
2) Dynamic split and then quantize. Seems to lose some feel again and seems to be less well suited to something like an acoustic guitar than to say a bass.
I'm working in Reaper, so I'm not sure if there are any other tools that would be suited to this task?
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- to manipulate the MIDI drumming note data to fit the guitar timing.
- to Time Stretch my collaborator's guitar parts to lock in better with the rest of the arrangement.
As with the other processes already mentioned in this thread, Time Stretch is capable of ruining a performance with sonic aberrations.Manual editing may be a drag but, in the OP's circumstances, it is often the only workable solution.
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I wanted to re-do the drums , so my first effort involved using splits in the looped track, at every say 8 bars, and then using stretch to line it up with my new 8 bar drum loops, it worked ok but was very tedious.
so I tried again, using the tempo detect in Logic, which added a lot of tempo information to my looped track, then I re-imported into Reaper-which allowed my 8 bar drum loops to follow the tempo information from Logic.
Neither option was perfect--but I did learn a lot along the way as to how GOOD reaper is, once you understand how it is working.
Easy to split a track and use a modifier-option -i think, to just drag it to stretch / compress a section to line up transients.
Kenny Gioia will have a vid on youtube to show you many ways to make this work, even over a multi mic'd drum session.
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