Hello fellow Logic Pro experts! This question is for you. In our studio we often arrange music on a Yamaha psr-sx900. We then import a WAV file into a Logic Pro session. When I import the wave file, it follows the built in click or metronome well in the beginning, but slowly moves so that by the end of the (usually 7-8min) song it's completely out of sync with the click. There's no noticable tempo change though, as in internally the music sounds ok without the click. Smart Tempo is set to Keep (same as the tempo from the keyboard), and both "Set new recordings to" and "set imported files to" are set to OFF in the Smart Tempo project settings. Flex and Follow is OFF for the chanel, and I make sure the first downbeat of the file aligns with a downbeat on the grid. Also, everything is quantized on the keyboard before it's arranged into a MIDI file (style) and exported to audio. When I set Smart Tempo to Adapt, I see lots of small changes on the tempo line and sometimes hear noticable changes in the file itself. When I set Smart Tempo to AUTO, sometimes it's ok, but sometimes the music slows down or speeds up very obviously. So, Keep seems the least destructive. I'd rather Logic not alter my file at all. It really slows down my workflow and is super frustrating. Any thoughts??

I've been mixing and producing my own music for a while now but as is the same with all of us I wish to continually refine my approach. As a time saver I have been processing the summing stacks (vocal bus) for backing vocals rather than each individual track within that stack. I imagine this isn't the healthiest approach but I'm taking into account CPU and the fact that each of the vocals sound very similar. No one told me I should process every backing vocal on one bus, I just assumed that made the most sense. Obviously I will do edits on particular tracks if something stands out. I tend to split the vocals into different summing stacks based on whether they are high or low harmonies etc, but as I said all of the processing is on the bus. Is this a standard approach? Would I stand to benefit from processing all the tracks individually or is this just a matter of taste? Cheers all Ric (Echo Town)

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