SLowing audio in Logic.

[John Isige]

Hi everybody.

I'm back with yet another exciting question.

So I paste an mp3 file into Logic, then go into the inspector and set flex to speed fx. Now how do I actually change the speed of the track? I'm trying to slow down some traditional African kalimba playing to learn some tunes. I swear I did this once but I'm apparently not smart enough to figure it out a second time. I was considering buying Amazing SLowdowner as a simpler process, but it worked once and then just said "not responding" every time I tried to run it again, so I deleted it. Then I remembered I was pretty sure you could do this in Logic, so here i am.

[Rui Vilarinho]

Hi mate,

After enabling the flex time, decrease or increase the master BPM tempo.

Best,
Rui
> No dia 29/11/2025, às 04:51, John Isige <gw...@tds.net> escreveu:
>
> Hi everybody.

>
> I'm back with yet another exciting question.
>
> So I paste an mp3 file into Logic, then go into the inspector and set flex to speed fx. Now how do I actually change the speed of the track? I'm trying to slow down some traditional African kalimba playing to learn some tunes. I swear I did this once but I'm apparently not smart enough to figure it out a second time. I was considering buying Amazing SLowdowner as a simpler process, but it worked once and then just said "not responding" every time I tried to run it again, so I deleted it. Then I remembered I was pretty sure you could do this in Logic, so here i am.
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[TheOreoMonster]

You can just use Varispeed for this. If you are gonna use flextime, I’d probably try polyphonic not s speed as that is the option that will change the pitch as well when changing the tempo. Try polyphonic and adjust the tempo or use Varispeed.
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[John Isige]

Thanks all!

OK, so getting a track into Logic and playing. Sometimes I can just load a project, usually a software instrument, copy a file in Finder, then paste into Logic. It makes a new audio track with the mp3 file. Sometimes that happens and it plays just fine, sometimes it won't paste and make a new track, once it took pasting two or three times before it made a new track, but then it wouldn't play.

Anybody know what I'm doing wrong here? Do I need to make sure I'm in a particular area, e.g. interacting with the track headers? Something else? Do I need to import rather than paste, because it's an mp3 file?

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[TheOreoMonster]

Nothing you are doing wrong. If you already copied and pasted a region with in Logic, copy and paste from finder won’t work anymore until you restart Logic or better yet clear the clipboard. Logic Magician has a key command for this and you can do it with out Logic magician but I forget what the sequence of key commands are to do that since I just been using the Logic Magician command whic is really just condensing them down into one key command.

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[Mert Ozer]

Without logic magician it's shift plus d to clear the selection and copying it with command plus C


Mert Ozer


> On Nov 29, 2025, at 4:43 PM, TheOreoMonster <theoreo...@logic.band> wrote:
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> Nothing you are doing wrong. If you already copied and pasted a region with in Logic, copy and paste from finder won’t work anymore until you restart Logic or better yet clear the clipboard. Logic Magician has a key command for this and you can do it with out Logic magician but I forget what the sequence of key commands are to do that since I just been using the Logic Magician command whic is really just condensing them down into one key command.

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[TheOreoMonster]

Yeah that’s it, thanks. Shift D, then command c. Then switch to finder and copy the file you want then switch back to logic and paste.

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