Moving a clip to a different BPM in Pro Tools

[AbjectEvolution]

I have a song in 80bpm in Pro Tools. We recorded some accoustic guitar and the guitarist wanted a faster beat to record to, so I doubled the BPM to 160 later in dead space so that he could record to the click track by itself. Well I booted up the project to start putting it together today, and I noticed that I cannot move those clilps in 160bpm to the 80bpm because it slows the clip down. So how do I move clips from one BPM to another without messing with the speed of the clip?

Thanks.

[elektro80]

I don´t know PT too well, but PT will have the same basic tools any modern DAW would have.

You are going to stretch the audio clip. There are basically two choices here:

You either stretch it in a way that makes it slow down.. it drops in pitch.. same effect as you would have when slowing to down tape to half speed.

Or.. like for that time/pitch stretch/ compensation function that will allow you to of sorts keep the pitch but stretch it anyways. How well that really works out is... well.. you decide..

[blue hell]

Or ... when you have silence in the track sometimes you can stretch the silent moments only ... not likely ... I know ... and a lot of work too using a calculator and all

[elektro80]

You will have some sort of simple SRC style stretch stuff going on here.

I still think you you should sack the guitarist.

Any decent guitarist must be able to keep up at 80 BPMs There are so many classic rock songs set around 80 BPM or slower.


A tip: It could be that your programming of drum patterns is a bit on the plonky side. Instead of doubling the speed you could have either improved the programming and/or added a groovy little cymbals/hihat pattern at a speed the guitarist would grok. He could even have added that little pattern himself. So if the 16ths are too slow and reeks of too little meth, then 32s would probably cut it?