How to Find the Tempo in Pro Tools

Learning how to properly set up the tempo or BPM in your recording and mixing session will help your workflow a ton. Editing and mixing becomes so much easier when the tempo is set to the session. Check out this video on how to find the tempo and locking into your Pro Tools session.

0:00 Intro
0:50 Why find the tempo?
2:20 Tap tempo in Pro Tools
7:54 Identify Beat in Pro Tools

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[DaRealEloquence]

I’ve learned so much from your videos. Keep up the good work!

[fatalbook]

Can someone please help me ? I’ve looked at every video. I think they updated ProTools and this doesn’t work anymore. I get to the zero crosssing point, I get the value of the tempo, I input it and I have to change the Note to actually play the speed of the beat I got from YouTube.

I literally follow every step and I don’t know exactly what’s wrong. If someone can please respond, it’d help me out so much

Can you make an updated version of this video Wayne ?

[Frostbeatz]

Great methods! I’ve gotten used to just finding the first downbeat when the drums kick in and begin my clip there. Then I slide that to bar 1 and just adjust the tempo up and down till it looks correct. Then I just fly down and playback from different bars to confirm I found it.

[DJDavis]

What happens if your trying to find the beat of a song played by musicians?? The bpm of the song always changes over time so the click will get faster or slower than the track and the bpm will be off. This beat you're using was created to a grid so it should always stick to the tempo

[kevinmarx]

Hey I enjoy your videos! Just curious why you wouldn't use the tab to transients feature in Pro Tools to establish the start and end of a beat? Wouldn't it be more accurate? Thanks for all the help!

[ThatShitIsHotSunlive]

Please help. When i change the tempo the speed of the song changes. I know its a simple setting however no one seems to address it. I just want to change the tempo where the grid aligns with the beat

[DonatoMaffin]

Great video, thank you, this was exactly what I was looking for! #respect

[DUBCEAST]

Wow! I needed this! I was doing it the long way by bringing it into Traktor pro to get the bpm then write it lol

[josephbernal]

Could have also tabbed to the transient right?

[brianhudson]

Pity your screen resolution is so low, I can't read it but you are pretty clear

[ConscienceCastillo]

everytime i change the tempo it changed thee speed of the song .. i need help

[Furybeatsgme]

Easiest way is virtual dj home beat and key is right about 95% of the time

[vonnibrown]

Wayne.... Homie I downloaded the waves plug-in that you said to get to use for your template and I have an Mac mini M1 and it says that they want work on my operating system what in the hell what version of waves are you using V13 V10 V9 or you just V.I.P so they hook you up

[lazzjayymedia]

Did not work for me. Changed the speed of the whole beat

[MikadosAnantonio]

When I do this the beat goes very slow

[martknightthisdisaster]

Wavy i’m a listener from ottawa canada 🇨🇦 and love your channel by the way! Can i ask you to do a video on how to find a key of a song like a free type beat or best we got from clients!! thank you 🙏

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[YOUNGFEAST]

Shout out to 🌊 wavy holding the independent engineers and artist 💯💯💯🔥🔥👑 identify best is key in mix

[thatsgametv]

Hey everyone. I have a question that hopefully can be answered here. I am switching from studio one to protools just to more easily send sessions to my engineer. In studio one all i had to do was type in the tempo and it would alogn my teo track to the grid no issue. However when j do this in protools after i import the beat it just speeds up the beat or slows it down and ifnindonit before i import the beat itndoesnt align with the gird. Could anyone tell me what im doing wrong? I like to have all these things taken care of so my engineer doesnt have to waste time doing these things before he can actually start mixing.

[tragikbeatz]

I don’t think that was a 2 bar loop, I think it was actually a 4 bar loop, but I’m not sure?

[LA_marr]

When I tap it in it slows the whole beat down