Find The BPM Of A Beat In Logic Studio

Finding the BPM of a track.

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There are many situations when using Logic Studio where you will need to find the tempo of a beat, instrumental or sample. Using Logic’s built in tools you can find the exact bpm of a track  so that it can be locked into the grid for easy editing. With an instrumental locked to the BPM tasks like copying and pasting parts become much easier. If you are doing production this also makes it easier to add additional parts and instruments on top of a sample.  You can follow the steps below while watching the video.

Find The BPM Of A Beat In Logic Studio
 

Import the track into Logic from Itunes or another location such as your hard drives, desktop or audio CD.

Next listen to the track and follow along while you count 2 bars.  When the beat starts you will count 1  2 3 4, 1 2 3 4.

With the scissor tools make a rough cut at the beginning of beat 1 of the first bar. Make another cut roughly where the 2 bar ends.

Switch back to the Arrow tool. Double click on the the section of the beat you just cut out. This will open that section or region in the Logic’s wav editor.

This is where you will fine tune your cuts so that the to bars loop perfectly. To do this drag the anchor point on the left lower corner to the start of beat 1. Usually there will be a kick drum sound here.

Move over to the right now and adjust the where the 2nd measure ends.

Preview the loop, and listen. Adjust the start and end points as needed so the loop sounds perfect.

When the loop is a perfect 2 bars go click back in the arrange window and select a loop area of 2 bars in the timeline.

Double click on the region one more to open it up in the wav editor.

From the FUNCTIONS menu select ADJUST TEMPO BY SELECTION and LOCATORS. Once you do this Logic’s tempo will change to the tempo of the loop.

Go back to the arrange window and drag the loop to the start of a measure.

Like everything in Logic Studio there a few other ways similar results can be achieved.

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