[Ardour-Users] Aligning Ardour's time line with a recorded track

[Carlos sanchiavedraz]

2010/8/7 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>

> On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 00:14 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 23:33 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 17:05 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Peter Desjardins
> > > > <peter.desjardins.us at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Hi. I'm just starting out with Ardour and I have a beginner's
> > > > > question. I hope you won't mind reading it here.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there a function for aligning the timeline with a recorded
> track? A
> > > > > friend of mine sent me a single track of drumming and I'd like to
> add
> > > > > to it in Ardour. I'd like to be able to match the beats in the
> Ardour
> > > > > time line to the beats in the track.
> > > > >
> > > > > The only way I can imagine doing this is by manually adjusting the
> > > > > time signature and speed until it looks and sounds correct.
> However,
> > > > > this must be such a common task that I'm guessing there's a
> function
> > > > > that will do it more quickly and reliably than I can.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there a beat matching function? Or is doing it manually just
> part of the fun?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks for your help. Please point me to documentation that covers
> > > > > this if there is any, I couldn't find it myself.
> > > >
> > > > its not well documented.
> > > >
> > > > the two functions you want are bound to "9" (set-tempo-from-region)
> > > > and "0" (set-tempo-from-range)
> > > >
> > > > for the first one, select a region that represents 1 bar, and press
> 9.
> > > > the rest should hopefully be obvious
> > > > for the second, define the edit range (see the keyboard cheat sheet
> > > > for info on this if you don't know about it) and press 0. same
> process
> > > > follows.
> > > >
> > > > the former works best if you are working with samples corresponding
> to
> > > > 1 bar; the second works best when working with less structured
> > > > material.
> > > >
> > > > --p
> > >
> > > IIRC there're also Linux applications that enable to tap the beat by a
> key and record the BPM changes, while listening to the song and perhaps
> after doing this, those apps become the MIDI time code master. I once asked
> for this at another list, but don't have access to the replies at the
> moment.
> > >
> > > - Ralf
> >
> > PS: I might be mistaken, I just found this email
> >
> http://www.mail-archive.com/64studio-users@lists.64studio.com/msg01171.html
> > OTOH even a beat counter might help you.
> > Btw. if you know somebody using Windows and Cubase, ask this person to
> > tap the BPM changes manually and to export a MIDI file for the tempo (if
> > MIDI files should include changes for the tempo, but I guess they
> > do) ... (if so) import it to Qtractor, Rosegarden or any other sequencer
> > that is able to sync to Ardour and make it the master for the timing.
>
> Pardon, a PPS, but I guess this is what you need:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/64studio-users@lists.64studio.com/msg01189.html
> http://www.teuton.org/~gabriel/InConcert/<http://www.teuton.org/%7Egabriel/InConcert/>
> Never tested it myself. There still would be a problem if you don't need
> to sync to a sequencer, but if you wish to have the correct 'visible'
> beats for Ardour audio only.
>
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Interesting app that InConcert. Thanks for sharing.
Maybe we at Musix should consider to include it no the distro.

-- 
Carlos sanchiavedraz
* Musix GNU+Linux
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