Operation Manual

Zoom in on the transition and move the sound Beds Are Burning to start on the last major beat of Atomic Dog.
We don't want Beds Are Burning to play at 107 bpm because its normal tempo is at 119, so we add three tempo
markers that ramp up the tempo during the transition. Add a marker by double clicking the time line or right clicking
the time line and selecting Add Marker...
That's it! Add more songs, add more tempo markers and burn it to CD or mix it down.
How To Fix Songs With Drifting Tempos
Most songs do not keep a constant tempo and it makes it very difficult to make a remix or mash-up. So, what can
you do about it? With Mixcraft, you can dissect the song into multiple beat matched clips using a metronome.
Then you can mix down the modified song to a new WAV file.
Let's edit the song Not Ready To Make Nice by the Dixie Chicks to be at a constant tempo. It's detected tempo
was at 83.243515 bpm, but as you can see from the Loop Editor on the Sound Details Tab, the sound's tempo
drifts from 81 bpm to 84 bpm.
Since the song starts at around 81 bpm, we adjust the song to 81 bpm initially. Turn on the metronome and listen
to the song. When it is no longer in time with the metronome, you'll need to split and adjust.
In this case, the tempo speeds up in the middle of measure 19. The actual beat (shown in red) should have lined
up with measure 20.
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