Flex Time offers a remarkable series of tools to help you edit audio but this week, I'm going old-school and showing you how to edit with little more than a pair of scissors, some judicious fading and your own sense of groove.

I want a tighter groove relationship between a new audio part I'm recording for my Touché pedal and a wonky groove which is the foundation of my track. So once I've used the Scissors to isolate each region I want to adjust, I'll show you how you can make small timing changes by sliding audio left and right along the timeline, as well as introducing you to the Nudge function. We'll also see how Fades can help manage the newly-edited start and end points between regions and see whether timestretching can also help.

At the end of the video, I'll remind you about Groove Templates, which are useful for getting MIDI regions to conform to an audio-based groove. If you want to learn more about those, click right here:    • LOGIC PRO X - Making Groove Templates  

00:00 Intro
01:24 Introducing Touche
02:27 MIDI to Audio
03:17 Analysing the groove
04:36 Looking and listening to two audio regions side by side
05:38 Overlaps
07:34 Creating Triplet figure
09:41 Nudge
11:50 Fixing Bars 2 and 3
13:50 Ignoring clicks and moving on
14:55 Unexpected Transpose
16:03 Trim End to next region
17:34 Trim Start to previous region
20:02 Fades
21:48 Stretching to fill gaps
23:53 Summary of what we've done so far
24:49 Introducing DMD part
25:46 How you might fix MIDI region groove