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I have moved this to the OT group because I find this has very little to do 
with Logic

CWB wrote: Unless a production requires varying tempo or the
> drummer is speeding up or slowing down.

Which is exactly what I meant, if you have a break and start by ear (no 
click) you will almost always naturally start a different place than the 
machine. I have done quite a bit of copying live drums to midi and I have 
often been surprised with the tightness (BPM wise) of these old recordings. 
Something like Here Comes The Sun by the Beatles is as tight as a beatbox 
until the mid 8, the sun sun sun part, at which point he changes the tempo 
slightly. That slight very musical change would not have been these days 
because of the convenience of the clicktrack. Older stuff from the thirties 
and fourties are often completely without a on-going beat which I find 
interesting. Just because everything is kept completely in time these days 
doesn't neccesarily mean that it's the only way. Listen to Somewhere Over 
the Rainbow by Judy Garland, there's dynamic tempo for you. The tempo alters 
with the mood of the songline and not the other way around, actually 
something that would more or less require everthing to be recorded at the 
same time. My guess is that those skills have disappeared because it's quite 
difficult, requires very good musicianship and, well let's face it,it's hard 
to dance to but who wants to dance all the time. The same thing with the 
autotune, if tuning and intonation becomes too much of an issue you might 
end up having to autotune everything but the sounds out of machines which in 
my opinion would be a shame.