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well ive read a bunch of good threads on how to sync acapellas. but they didn't provide me with info that i already didn't know.

i use a BPM identifying program to identify the bpm of the acapella (usually works fine, or it doubles the bpm, in that case just divide the bpm in half!) and then i just warp em.

still seem a lil bit off to me sometimes! i dunno.

well you can never account for all of the nuance of a vocalist - I mean, there are not a whole lot of restrictions on the human voice - you just have to make it feel natural.

maybe if you get the original version of the song you can use the beat in that to sync to? Maybe once you get it right you can use the "repl" button to slip in the acapella track instead? I don't know i'm just guessing here. Maybe it would at least get you alot closer to where you wanna be, if I even understand what your problem is.

Jon

just the acapellas seem teeny bit off sometimes, especially during the choruses.

I can only think of 2 solutions...

1. Record the acapella into your computer exactly in sync with a track that has a beat to it (on your turntables or CDJ). Then record the track with the beat into your computer (Make sure that you do not adjust the pitch between recording the 1st and 2nd). Then bounce the songs, load them into Ableton Live, warp marker the song that has the beat to it, then rename that analysis file to the name of the acapella track. This will make that little file attach itself to your acapella track.

2. You can just keep messing with the warp markers until you get it right.