Adjusting Bar to Composition Over Time
First and foremost I would like to ask for patience in reading and responding to this post/querry, as I'm not sure I completely understand how to even ask the question itself. That being said, I'll begin.
I'm scoring a film. Picture is locked. I composed a piece that generally falls under a 3/4 time signature. I say generally because there are certain breaks in the composition. Once the beat of the composition begins again, however, it no longer falls in time with the click track (due, of course, to the ambient break). However, the composition, of course, has to be kept in line with the picture, so I can't adjust it to the tempo/beat/click.
I would have to adjust the click to IT - to where the song's downbeat falls again after the beat starts back up. and all this over time - that is to say doing this in such a manner that it does not hamper the alignment of the previous portions of the beats.
How can I do this (in Logic)?
And, for that matter, is this even the right methodology? I mean I know this isn't the how-do-you-score-a-film? forum, but I know that the issue that I'm having is a common enough one when scoring a film - so I'm asuming that either Logic does indeed have a very adequate way of dealing with/addressing this, or that there's actually a much better way of going about composing one's score so as to not run into this problem.
Thanks one and all in advance (and as always) for all the help and support,
Javier Calderon
Hmmm . . . Okay, Ashermusic (thanks for the quick response, by the way) I just looked this up:
"The meter of a piece of music is the repetitive arrangement of strong and weak pulses in the rhythm."
That being said, I'm not sure if a change in meter is what's needed. I don't necesarilly need a change from a 3/4 beat at 150bpm to a 4/4 beat at 150bpm, but, instead, a manner to shift the downbeat over just a smidgen in order to fall on the new position of the changed composition (i.e. after the ambient break).
Tempo changes don't seem to do it because . . .
wait a minute . . . as you mentioned, maybe if I lock the region and then put in a tempo change it might work? I'll give it a try and report back here . . .
(as you may be able to tell, I'm a bit confused as to how exactly to go about accomplishing what I'm trying to do).
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It doesnt seem to like me parsing int to string here:
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You use Integer.parseInt to parse a String into an int, not the other way around.
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