I have difficulty lining up the instrumental with song. HELP

first of all you gotta make sure the beats per minute for the insturmental and the acapella match up. if they do, what helps me is to just play the insturmental and just sing the lyrics and try and match it up from there.
sometimes in older songs the beats per minute are alittle "off" you you have to adjust them manually which can be alittle time consuming but its worth it

[quote quote="C-Squared":3jyp6lgg][quote quote="jamaxson3":3jyp6lgg]first of all you gotta make sure the beats per minute for the insturmental and the acapella match up. if they do, what helps me is to just play the insturmental and just sing the lyrics and try and match it up from there.
sometimes in older songs the beats per minute are alittle "off" you you have to adjust them manually which can be alittle time consuming but its worth it[/quote:3jyp6lgg]

Record labels know that the beats can be inverted to cancel themselves, so they VERY rarely release an instrumental in the same form that its used in a song. Usually they speed it up slightly and modify the waves a little bit so that the actual audio is nearly the same, but the readout isn’t.[/quote:3jyp6lgg]

So is there a way around this?

I found out through trial and error what to do. Hope this helps:

1. Listen to the original track that the acapella originates from

2. Calculate the BPM and lock your sequencer to that beat

3. Your acapella should almost exactly match the bpm (this depends – if you’re
remixing an old tune with fluctuations in the bpm value, then you’ll need to do
some fine tuning.) Anyhoo…..
Run a click track and use the time warp tools in your sequencer to lock your
acapella to the click track (this way as the tempo changes, your acapella will
speed up or slow down accordingly.

I’m speaking to you more or less from a Cubase/Nuendo point of view. I forget offhand what to do when I’m using Pro Tools, Ableton Live sort of solves its own problem, and Sonar I forget, too (i seem to remember it being less of an issue here than anywhere). Also check YouTube. There’s a lot of information on there about it…