On Sun, 2 May 2010 15:51:20 +0100 Chris Cannam <cannam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:44 PM, David Baron <d_baron@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > For a nice, expressive ballad, I have actually aligned the tempo graphically > > to the audio. Surprisingly effective, possible in qtractor or rosegarden. Set > > tempos so that the beat lines hit the audio where one wants. > > Rosegarden has a feature that can sometimes help with this -- Set > Tempos from Beat Segment. (Hm, wonder why it doesn't say "tempi".) > > To use it, record a new segment in which (on a MIDI keyboard or > whatever) you tap one note at each beat -- tapping along with the real > time of the audio or whatever you want to align it with. Then select > that segment and activate the function (Composition -> Set Tempos from > Beat Segment). Rosegarden will then calculate a tempo change for each > beat, such that all the other MIDI segments will have their beats > moved to the times you tapped at. > > > Chris Woo! I never knew about this!!! The times I've farted about aligning segments by hand :( -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
