alexis
August 26, 2014, 8:58pm
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Jalcide:
I’m trying to drop a reference song (at about 127 bpm) into my 125 bpm project.
I want the reference song to be tempo adjusted and locked to the 125 bpm project.
I followed Greg Ondo’s excellent tutorial on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c13UP4lrYkg
Select the reference song track and choose Project → Tempo Detection…
Change time signature from its default set 1/4 to 4/4.
Select the track and choose Audio → Advanced → Set Definition from Tempo…
Now Cubase changes its tempo to match the Tempo Track based on the variations in the reference song.
Great.
Now to have it do the opposite, warp the reference song to match a fixed tempo, I should only have to remove the data on the Tempo Track, or deactivate the Tempo Track. Right?
So I do that.
Either way, while the reference song now does indeed lock to the fixed tempo as it should, the rest of my tracks are somehow offbeat, not looping correctly, etc.
How is this possible?
This doesn’t make sense because the tempo, at this point, is fixed and is the same tempo as when they were playing back fine. Some tracks, like MIDI drum machines, seem to play back the same as they did before the Set Def. from Tempo, but other VSTi’s (some frozen, some not) do not play like they originally did.
Again, same fixed tempo as before I started all this. So nothing, for them, should have changed, right?
Only that one reference song that I applied the Set Def. from Tempo on should be affected by all this, correct?
Hi Jalcide - Not in front of DAW, and didn’t watch vid, but may be helpful to a) put all MIDI tracks in linear time base (the clock icon, rather than the yellow/orange quarter note icon), and to make sure all the OTHER audio tracks are not set to Musical Mode.
(PS Would consider working on a dummy renamed version of the project, sometimes it gets too crazy to get back to where you started if things don’t go right!)