"brankopezo" <brankopezo@...> writes: >does logic platinum have vari speed at all? No, but there are three tricks that are a pale replacement: 1) Change the sample rate before you record. This is obviously limiting, since 44.1KHz is the slowest sample rate you can't go lower than that to record stuff in slow motion to be played back faster at the correct rate. 2) Use the Time Machine to change the pitch. Make sure to NOT check the "Harmonic Correction" (this will more closely simulate the effect of recording at a slower or faster rate and then playing back normal). The big flaw in this method is that you always record at the "correct" speed, thus you can't take advantage of what stuff sounds like faster or slower. 3) This takes the most work, but you end up with the same thing as what varispeed gives you: 3a) Make a temporary bounce/mix of the audio you'd be performing to and place this on a track in Logic. 3b) Mute every other track. The idea is the play back only this temp mix. 3c) In the Time Machine, turn on "Classic". Pitch Shift this piece of audio but make sure Harmonic Correction is turned OFF. Turning on "Classic" means that the timing will change as pitch is changed. This is exactly what plain old tape does of course. 3d) Now you can do your overdubs to this pitch shifted (and time shifted of course) piece of audio). 3e) When it comes time to play everything back at the correct pitch and time, you need pitch shift the newly recorded audio in the opposite direction (+ instead of -, or - instead of +) by the exact same amount. Again, make sure Classic is turned ON and make sure Harmonic Correction is turned OFF. Naturally, you can mess around with the above scenario to do something tape couldn't ever do: Pitch Shift with classic turned OFF (this will retain the same timing), or Time Shift with Classic turned OFF (this will retain the same pitch). Just make sure you do the same thing to the temp mix as you do to the resultant overdubs (but change the + to a - or vice versa). f-erenc szabo, smarty pants Z+E+R+O+B+E+A+T "NOW POWERED BY THE MIRACLE OF THE TRANSISTOR!" <http://home.goodmedia.com/~zerobeat>