I'm pulling my bloody hair out and have been trying to do this literally all day so I hope someone has an answer that isn't "use Flex Time"...

I'm trying to tidy up the timing of some drum tracks in Logic Ex 9.1.8. I have grouped the drums in the mixer, detected the transients in the sample editor (kick and snare) and tidied them up, clicked the q-reference for the snare and kick tracks, and then ctrl-clicked 'Slice at Transient Markers'. It should slice at the markers I've set yes?

Well it doesn't. It slices each tracks transients individually.

So, I tried deleting the transients in those tracks I don't need and tried again. It sliced those transients I need, yes, but did not slice anything in the tracks where I had deleted the transients.

It seems as though 'Slice At Transient Markers' doesnt detect group or q-reference settings even though it should.

Does anyone have absolutely any idea whatsoever of what I can do to get this sorted? I know it can be done because the exact same thing was achieved in this thread, complete with one who did it no problem and one who couldn't do it. The odd thing was that both ended up unable to do it once opening the same project.

What is going on before I sling the MacBook out the window?

Hi, you say you have grouped the channels but have you enabled selection and edit grouping? Open the group options dialogue to enable this.

If all your regions start and end at the same positions you should enable phase locked editing in the same dialogue. You'd need this for multitrack flex time too.

Will

Sorry for the delay, however, I appear to have sorted this. Though, I do think there's a bug somewhere in the process. I had originally detected and deleted the transients, but they re-appeared at a later date. I think that I may have done this prior to turning on Flex Slicing mode, so they re-appeared which would make sense, however I'm not sure if this is the case, so the jury is out.

Either way, I can now split everything as much as I like. I jut have to sort out the "why cant I crossfade using the Inspector even though I should be able to" question.

Edited by tomdot (05/02/13 06:45 PM)

glad to hear you've at least got one problem sorted!

Well I have NEVER managed to get Flex to do anything other than completely ruin the sound of medium tracks! Half an hour of manual cutting, moving and cross-fading gets a seamless result in most cases. But it seems to take me just as long to set up, tweak and adjust Flex for a hideous result! Would love a real-world tutorial, the drum fix demos on YouTube are just too simple a drum track to be truly helpful!

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Joe / www.joepublicstudios.com

Joe I think you've got the right idea with the manual editing. I personally have never used time stretching to solve major timing issues as I think anything other than very tiny increments sounds like Sylvester Stallone and Shane MacGowan having a chat underneath a jet engine.

I used Pro Tools for years and never owned Beat Detective up until the very end, and I wore out the Tab and 'B' keys. I can do the same now in Logic 9 using Flex Slicing mode and the Transient Detector - the first week was a nightmare, but now I've got the key commands sorted I'm away. It's misleading because it seems that you're flexing all the audio to bits, but using the slicing mode doesn't disrupt the audio. It's actually straightforward once you learn the quirks and it's compareable to BD.

The only time I'll use Flex is for stuff I don't know how to edit with introducing bumps - mainly continuous cymbals like heavily played rides and crashes on every beat. By stretching the audio back a quarter or half beat it stops that big clunk in the middle of the edit and doesn't seem to have any artifacts. I'd love to know how to manual edit in these kinds of places but I can never get it right. I've even tried matching the waveforms but still get a slight bump.