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Subject:Combining a capella Posted by: usman152008 Date:7/3/2004 10:38:12 AM i want to combine "a capella" with a beat. I dont know how to set their speeds so the go together. I dont know a lot so someone could explain me please step by stey if possible. thank u. i know the basics, i mean i know some of it but i dont know hot to set their speeds so they flow together.
Subject:RE: Combining a capella Reply by: JohnnyRoy Date:7/3/2004 4:13:05 PM You need to Beatmap the acapella vocals. If the acapella came from a song that used a click track or drum machine, then all you need to do is find out the original BPM of the song and set that as the beatmap once you determine the starting point of the first measure. If the acapella was truly sung acapella, you are in for a lot of trouble. Chances are, it wasn’t sung on time to a particular BPM and it will never sync properly. You’ll then need a tool like Sound Forge to chop the file up into measures and then time stretch each measure to match the beat. A very tedious task. You could also probably do it right in ACID Pro using the Chopper and chop to new track. Either way it will take time and patience. ~jr
Subject:RE: Combining a capella Reply by: groovewerx Date:7/3/2004 5:22:08 PM What s/he said or you could place a drum loop on a track and cut/paste/chop/slice the vox to fit the drum loop.

Subject:Combining a capella

Posted by: usman152008

Date:7/3/2004 10:38:12 AM

i want to combine "a capella" with a beat. I dont know how to set their speeds so the go together. I dont know a lot so someone could explain me please step by stey if possible. thank u. i know the basics, i mean i know some of it but i dont know hot to set their speeds so they flow together.

Subject:RE: Combining a capella

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:7/3/2004 4:13:05 PM

You need to Beatmap the acapella vocals. If the acapella came from a song that used a click track or drum machine, then all you need to do is find out the original BPM of the song and set that as the beatmap once you determine the starting point of the first measure. If the acapella was truly sung acapella, you are in for a lot of trouble. Chances are, it wasn’t sung on time to a particular BPM and it will never sync properly. You’ll then need a tool like Sound Forge to chop the file up into measures and then time stretch each measure to match the beat. A very tedious task. You could also probably do it right in ACID Pro using the Chopper and chop to new track. Either way it will take time and patience.

~jr

Subject:RE: Combining a capella

Reply by: groovewerx

Date:7/3/2004 5:22:08 PM

What s/he said or you could place a drum loop on a track and cut/paste/chop/slice the vox to fit the drum loop.