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Doug Nelson · Post by **Doug Nelson** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 6:18 pm

If you're recording with instruments that can't sync to the host's BPM, is there any reason to set it?

torhan · Post by **torhan** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 6:23 pm

Doug Nelson wrote:If you're recording with instruments that can't sync to the host's BPM, is there any reason to set it?

huh? Are you using midi?

Doug Nelson · Post by **Doug Nelson** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 6:32 pm

Yep, but in this case there's no sync available. Since audio also can't sync (as there's nothing to sync) it got me thinking about times when setting the BPM might be superfluous.

ew · Post by ew » Mon Aug 16, 2004 6:38 pm

Unless you have nothing in the track that follows a meter(highly unlikely unless you have no drums or very freeform ones),you should still set your BPM.You may want to add something that DOES sync to host tempo later.Or,you may want to chop up the resulting audio and use it somewhere as a loop.You can't do really good time/pitch stretching without knowing what BPM the loop was recorded at.
ew

torhan · Post by **torhan** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 6:39 pm

Doug Nelson wrote:Yep, but in this case there's no sync available. Since audio also can't sync (as there's nothing to sync) it got me thinking about times when setting the BPM might be superfluous.

Well, a quarter note recorded at 150 bpm will sound half as long as one recorded at 75bpm, so it is important. Also, it makes editing easier -- for example, what if you wanted to copy measures 10-18? How are you going to know where those measures start/end without a bpm setting (without doing some math, etc.)?

BPM-less instruments