Normalizing Tempo

A friend of mine is wondering if there's a simple program or plugin that will take a sample or song with irregular tempo and normalize it by stretching the beats so they are consistent. Anyone know of such a thing?

you can detect hitpoints in cubase, then split the beat like you do in recycle.

from there you can quantise.

other than that, you can warp beats in ableton.

not aware of any software that does it automagically.

actually both programs loganfive mentioned can do it automatically. the term is "Audio Quantize" and you can do it similar to quantizing midi. How accurate it does it is entirely based on the audio though, and you may have to do some tweaking afterwards. i'm sure there are other programs that do it too, i'm just not as familiar with them as i am with those two.

cheers yos!

it's pretty much standard in all DAWs now.

i still haven't seen it work too well with full songs that are played entirely by a band made before 1980 or so. It has a long way to go, probably the most sophisticated version of this i've seen so far is that novelty filter someone made that adds a swing effect to any song. i could be missing some new developments though. I'm mostly talking about the way Cubase and Ableton do it. Logic's new elastic audio system seems the most apt for doing this type of thing manually (by hand)

The alternative is to record a tap tempo track of the song while it plays, and then have midi based elements follow the resulting tempo modulation. Actually not really an alternative but totally depends on what you want the song to sound like.

Ableton.