Logic pro 8 won't transpose

Question

I have recorded a track of guitar into Logic Pro. I want to drop the pitch by an octave. I have changed the transposition on the channel strip in the Inspector to -12, but it doesn't affect the pitch whatsoever. In fact changing the transposition values seems to have no affect on the audio at all. What am I missing?

Answer 1

Hey, Problem solved!
Indeed, that matters.
Only within Logic recorded Audio tracks have this saught-after checkbox "follow tempo".
However, no problem if you got a track from someone else. You just have to re-record it within Logic.
There are two Options. I prefer this one:
- Assign a Bus to the output of the audio track you have.
- Make a new audio track and assign this Bus as its input.
- Set this new track into record mode, place your playhead properly and hit record.
- The newly created audio track will have the checkbox "follow tempo" in the inspector.
This, however, just works in realtime. Another option is to bounce the original track and import it into your bin. CAUTION: the "normalize" option MUST NOT be checked in the bounce dialog! If it IS, the "follow tempo" option won't be available afterwards!
Hope this helps somebody,
Cheers,
Stefan.