If you think that the time-stretch is up to the job (perhaps using the elastique setting) then you could adjust all of the tracks in one go… Off the top of my head here’s a procedure:
- Make sure the 26 violin tracks are not in Musical Mode (i.e. Linear Timebase)
- Use Time-Warp to warp the tempo map to match their out-of-time playing
- Select all 26 violin audio events
- Right click and select Advanced->SetDefinitionFromTempo
- Answer questions in the next dialogue (if it turns up…)
- Switch tracks to Musical Mode (dialogue question)
- Delete the adjusted tempo points that were created by Time-Warp
- The audio events will now follow the steady tempo
So, what you’re doing is creating a tempo map to match the out-of-time playing. Encoding that map into each of the 26 audio events. Then putting the tempo map back into a steady tempo, at which point all 26 audio events will follow the steady tempo.
You might want to test this on a section of the audio, or clip out (and bounce) just the bit which isn’t in time to make it easier on the processing. I quite often do tempo mapping like this way beyond the end of the project so it doesn’t effect the important part of the project!
But I quite rarely do it on production audio because of the quality drop when using time-stretch… Cut, paste and crossfade is usually better (use auto crossfades to help speed up the manual labour).
Mike.