I made the switch from Acid to Logic Pro X for the same reason over 2 years ago. I couldn't justify the disk space and detriment to my workflow on my Mac by having to VM it to Windows for the single purpose of using an outdated program. It took some time to get use to the differences, but certainly so worth it.
Logic Pro continues to get updates and improvements (most recently, like 3 months ago) and Acid is considered dead by Sony (hasn't been updated since 2010). I highly recommend Logic over Acid.
I doubt I'll find the time to make a video tutorial so here's a basic run-through when dealing with changing with tempo:
To start:
Drag your file into the desired track. Right Click, "Bounce In Place". This will create a new copy of the file within the project. This is important since changes can permanently change the source file. You have the option to normalize as well here.
I normally will alter the BPM manually by compressing/expanding the track via Flex or do it more precisely via the Time and Pitch Machine.
For Time and Pitch Machine:
If you don't know the BPM of the song, you can add a plugin called BPM Counter (Metering > BPM Counter) in the Inspector within the Channels part (where the Compressor and EQ are for a given track) that will realtime try to calculate BPM while you play through a certain part of the song (the longer you let it play for, the more accurately it'll figure it out - but it gives you the flexibility to play a given region to find out the BPM of that part). Within the track editor (denoted by the scissors cutting a track) at the top left, go to the File submenu, click on Function > Time And Pitch Machine. Enter the original BPM that you found and enter either the new desired BPM or the % change in tempo and click Process and you should be good to go.
For Flex:
Select the track and go to the track editor. Go to the Track submenu and click on the icon for Flex (looks like if the track has been twisted into something like a möbius strip) and it will allow you to expand/compress the track and thus respectively decrease and increase the tempo. This method is more useful and quicker when you're trying to fit the tempo of one track to another.
For beatmapping and managing global tempos, check out the official guide which is fairly self-explanatory:
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH13225?locale=en_US&viewlocale=en_US
Let me know if you have specific questions.
Prabhzy said:
Any where you can get discounted deals for Logic pro? Im not the fan paying £300 for a software as of yet
While I use to pirate most of my software in the past, the $200 I ended up paying for Logic Pro X was well worth it. Seamless performance on a software that continues to gets updates and new content every few months and over 40GB worth of sound that can be downloaded via the program that is well organized by type, genre, pitch and tempo in its library. Not sure why you need to pay more than twice that (£300?) but as a pirate, I have no regrets forking over me gold doubloons.
