Hello everyone! Are you well? I'd just like to air a couple of thoughts that spoke to me in the FTM event this week. What do you think? From Ben: people prefer to work with people who they like, or to whom they feel a connection. I recently learned that people in my physical or geographical community are hesitant, even straight up afraid, to work with me because I'm a foreigner, and female besides. These are just extra barriers. Ben's comments have given me lots to think about. Ken's comments in this event and elsewhere about tailoring your mixes to the client's preferences. I love this. I've thought about it lots because contextualization is a pillar in my work. Where is your line though? Are you willing to make choices and decisions you feel are "poor quality" but creates the sound the client wants and still put your name on it? To end, I'll just note that almost everything I know about audio engineering I learned in this school, from this community, mostly from the FTM events. I've got a long way to go, but I'm grateful for where I'm at now.

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Unfortunately I couldn’t attend the event but definitely planning to watch the replay if available. What was your favorite moment?

Hello fellow Logic Pro experts! This question is for you. In our studio we often arrange music on a Yamaha psr-sx900. We then import a WAV file into a Logic Pro session. When I import the wave file, it follows the built in click or metronome well in the beginning, but slowly moves so that by the end of the (usually 7-8min) song it's completely out of sync with the click. There's no noticable tempo change though, as in internally the music sounds ok without the click. Smart Tempo is set to Keep (same as the tempo from the keyboard), and both "Set new recordings to" and "set imported files to" are set to OFF in the Smart Tempo project settings. Flex and Follow is OFF for the chanel, and I make sure the first downbeat of the file aligns with a downbeat on the grid. Also, everything is quantized on the keyboard before it's arranged into a MIDI file (style) and exported to audio. When I set Smart Tempo to Adapt, I see lots of small changes on the tempo line and sometimes hear noticable changes in the file itself. When I set Smart Tempo to AUTO, sometimes it's ok, but sometimes the music slows down or speeds up very obviously. So, Keep seems the least destructive. I'd rather Logic not alter my file at all. It really slows down my workflow and is super frustrating. Any thoughts??