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Hi. Need some help. There is project I am working on and the program used to do it does not support non integer BPM. (For anyone interested what it is, with Garageband you have to recreate a drum track for 45 second straight, for this I chose In My Place) in my place hasa a weird BPM and my drum track does not exactly align with it, it's fine at the start but then it starts lagging, I have my drums set to exactly 72 BPM but the song goes either a little faster or slower so I need help on making a version that's exactly 72bpm so it will work. Doesn't need to be Garageband, audacity would be best so I can just do it here, slap it on Google drive and download it when I get to class tomorrow. This is urgent!!! My project is due soon so I need an answer really quickly. Thanks for anyone pointing me in the right direction....

 

 

**UPDATE** no more help needed, I found an alternate solution. All is good now! :)

It seems that the actual bpm of In My Place is 72.5, but if you play the beats twice is fast, double that number and, TA DA!, you get 145, an integer :)

Yeah but that would be noticeable, I need it at 72 BPM...

In your program, can you 'multiply' the song by a number to make it faster/slower?

 

If you multiply 72.5 x 0.993103448276 you get 72

Why not run it at 145 and make every note twice its value at 72.5?

make every note twice it's value

Exactly the wording I was looking for, thanks.

Basically make every quarter note a half note, every eighth note a quarter note, every sixteenth note an eighth note, etc. If you can accomplish this and set the bpm to 145, then that should do the trick.

**UPDATE** no more help needed, I found an alternate solution. All is good now! :)