The "I always forget to change the BPM" confession

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The "I always forget to change the BPM" confession

Post by Project_B » Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:36 am

Butter my arse, i'm always guilty.
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Post by JFK » Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:03 am

:lol: I did this all the time when I first started.

One time I couldnt understand why none of the 170bpm amen loops were fitting onto the grid (making DnB back then). I spent ages time stretching them and pissing about so they fit. I sounded like a right bag of shit by the time I had finished.

And then I noticed I had the tempo set to 120bpm the whole time

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Post by Brisance » Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:23 am

I mostly produce on 140 and FL has it by default... (take this, other daw fanboys)
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Post by sifres » Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:43 am

Brisance wrote:I mostly produce on 140 and FL has it by default... (take this, other daw fanboys)
Yeah... I have the tempo set to 140, 3 busses with compression set up, and a dub delay + reverb in the sends. It's called a "template" in Ableton Live.

Take that FL fanboy 8) ;)


Oh and +1 on the forgetting to change the tempo... When I didn't have the template set up yet. I had a couple of tunes going @ 120 ... figuring it out 2hrs later :roll:
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Post by the dub lemon » Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:49 am

Sifres wrote:
Brisance wrote:I mostly produce on 140 and FL has it by default... (take this, other daw fanboys)
Yeah... I have the tempo set to 140, 3 busses with compression set up, and a dub delay + reverb in the sends. It's called a "template" in Ableton Live.

Take that FL fanboy 8) ;)


Oh and +1 on the forgetting to change the tempo... When I didn't have the template set up yet. I had a couple of tunes going @ 120 ... figuring it out 2hrs later :roll:
You can do the same thing in Cubase too.
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Post by the dub lemon » Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:49 am

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Sifres wrote:
Brisance wrote:I mostly produce on 140 and FL has it by default... (take this, other daw fanboys)
Yeah... I have the tempo set to 140, 3 busses with compression set up, and a dub delay + reverb in the sends. It's called a "template" in Ableton Live.
You can do the same thing in Cubase too.
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Post by lowpass » Mon Aug 24, 2009 11:09 am

That's funny, reason does it as well,

weird :roll:
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Post by magma » Mon Aug 24, 2009 11:26 am

I have so many drum breaks at 120bpm that I haven't found a proper home for because of this...
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Post by deadcode » Mon Aug 24, 2009 11:38 am

Sifres wrote:
Brisance wrote:I mostly produce on 140 and FL has it by default... (take this, other daw fanboys)
Yeah... I have the tempo set to 140, 3 busses with compression set up, and a dub delay + reverb in the sends. It's called a "template" in Ableton Live.

Take that FL fanboy 8) ;)


Oh and +1 on the forgetting to change the tempo... When I didn't have the template set up yet. I had a couple of tunes going @ 120 ... figuring it out 2hrs later :roll:
You can do all that as a template in FL as well, but, er, better.....yeah.
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Post by freq juggler » Mon Aug 24, 2009 11:48 am

:roll: Used to do this too. I did the following to stop me from doing it again and again:

SET THE TEMPLATE BPM TO 0!!

That way you can't make music or reallyyyyyy slooooooooooooooow and you HAVE to change it. :lol:
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Post by my_fickle_eye » Mon Aug 24, 2009 12:06 pm

yaaa did that that other day 120 (cubase) need to change my template, DOH!
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Post by crutch » Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:17 pm

Depone wrote:I have never done this.

Seriously is it that hard to not notice??
done this before, i never notice if i start with something other than beats. should work at a differnt tempo though, take it down to hip hop or 70bpm.
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Post by DZA » Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:33 pm

:lol: :lol: First thing i do when open up reason is change the bpm
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Post by 86. » Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:37 pm

I've done this once, but I was using FL to make the drum patterns. So when I brought it into Ableton it immediately sounded off.


Never been halfway through a track though LOL
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Post by bandshell » Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:51 pm

I barely work at 140, first thing I do is drop the tempo to 133 or 135.
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Post by FSTZ1 » Mon Aug 24, 2009 3:02 pm

I have done this before

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Post by therapist » Mon Aug 24, 2009 3:15 pm

Neurotik wrote:Haha, the amount of times i used to get half way through a track i'd really be getting into before realising i'm at 120bpm. Changing the tempo would always screw everything up at that point so .. :( lol. I started doing the same with Sonar aswell when i started using that. But yeah templates always help and save shitloads of time setting things up, on Reason anyway lol.
120 bpm is evil is it?
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Post by djerkov » Mon Aug 24, 2009 3:30 pm

Therapist wrote:
Neurotik wrote:Haha, the amount of times i used to get half way through a track i'd really be getting into before realising i'm at 120bpm. Changing the tempo would always screw everything up at that point so .. :( lol. I started doing the same with Sonar aswell when i started using that. But yeah templates always help and save shitloads of time setting things up, on Reason anyway lol.
120 bpm is evil is it?
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