[ddots-l] Re: question on creating a click track question
- From: "Shawn Brock" <shawn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 16:05:28 -0800
If the original song wasn't cut with a click your better off to just take the
first few beats of that song to use as your tempo.
What I was speaking of is the fact that you will rarely be able to get the
correct tempo with tap tempo. You will get close, but not right on. Also, you
may get the correct tempo, but the song will be out with the click, because
there will be a little dead space on the front of a recording...
Make sense?
Shawn Brock
----- Original Message -----
From: Farfar Carlson
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 1:32 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: question on creating a click track question
Not sure I understand all this. If the original song is not a perfectly
steady beat, then doesn't the click track eventually get out of sync with the
original?
Dave
Composed on a Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio Recording
and Mixing Studios, San Francisco Bay Area.
----- Original Message -----
From: Shawn Brock
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 12:13
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: question on creating a click track question
Brian,
Something I do is to import the song into sonar, play it and use the tap
tempo function. Some times its helpful to insert 1 bar of time right before
the song, so you can slide the song back and forth to line up with the click.
The tap tempo will get you within a few beats of the true tempo of the
song, then you can align the intro of the song up with the click, and gradually
change the tempo from say 95 BPM to 96 BPM, until you get it just right.
There are better and more sophisticated ways to do this, but I'm just
giving the one that works for me.
As for having a click live, lots of times I will use a shaker loop, or
procussion loop as the click. If you have to, just have a separate project
file which has your click for each song, or you can put all the clicks for the
gig in 1 project file and use the insert new tempo for each time you change
songs. Obviously, you will want to do a few other tricks, maybe set up a
marker for each song, that way you can jump to each song quickly...
Shawn Brock
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Howerton
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 12:01 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] question on creating a click track question
Hello,
Just am curious to see if this will work. Eventually I will be
completing my internship and am looking to become a music director for a
church. Currently, the music director at the church where I am working is
using a program called Digital performer and he is creating a click track off
of demo tracks of songs that the choir will be singing, and this click of
course will be used with the band while playing live. Is there a way for us to
be able to do this in Sonar? Basically, he is using an actual track off of a
cd and creating a click track from the track on the cd. it looks like he's
doing tempo maps and everything. Just wondering how this all would work in
sonar. Also, does anyone ever use click tracks in sonar during live situations
and am wondering the easiest way to do this.... I will be working in a small
church working and they will not have the money for in-ears but maybe we can
use a headphone amp to run the click for me and the drummer? Just wondering
what my options would be for this so I can think through teh best way to do
this as well... Thanks for any help,
Brian
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