Hello all from a recent transplant from Digital Performer

Ed_Shearmur · September 3, 2019, 8:51pm

Thanks for taking the time to reply Steve.

I have a couple of responses…:

Glad to know about this functionality, but it’s a really messy workaround. I really don’t think it’s crazy to want the tempo of the sequence to truly mirror what is happening musically. If I want to maintain a tempo of 90 bpm but go from dotted quarters to regular quarters, the inconvenience in Cubase of the math involved is prohibitive, as opposed to the elegance in DP…
DP Compound tempo adjustments.m4v.zip (1.52 MB)

-steve-:

This one might be difficult to describe. While the “warp time” feature in Cubase and DP’s “adjust beats” are similar, DP has a few additional bits of functionality which are incredibly useful:
A) the choice to move individual beats or whole measures
Not sure exactly what you mean, but you can do a lot in regard to moving the grid
B) The ability to snap beats or measures to midi events
C) most importantly, the ability to change the tempo after the beat you’ve moved. Say I have an improvisation that I’ve played without reference to Cubase’s tempo. Let’s say that the music is roughly 92 bpm, and I’ve lined the first note at the sequence start. What I’d love is to be able to move the second barline to my improvisation’s bar 2 and for Cubase to now know that I’m roughly at 92 bpm. My piece will now be looking immediately much more comprehensible. And all I will have to do is adjust subsequent measures and/or beats incrementally to get a perfect tempo map. Right now, Cubase forces me to adjust each beat by hand. (I know there is an auto guess tempo feature, but I’ve not found it to be particularly successful…)
or use a midi track to tap the beats for the length of the passage, then use Tempo Detection on that midi track, this works very well, and is fast.

Here’s A little video example. The improv is very slow and slightly rubato. Notice how after having moved the second barline to the appropriate note, all the music downstream is interpreted in the new tempo and any adjustments after that are minimal and obvious. If I wanted even greater accuracy I could go in a clean up individual beats of course…

DP ADJUST BEATS VID.m4v.zip (172 Bytes)
(Notice also that the transcription engine doesn’t need any instruction regarding quantization or split points. It automatically senses that this needs a grand staff etc…and it intelligently displays note lengths appropriate to the context.

I realize that people coming from a different platform and requesting features seemingly specific to that platform may be annoying, but the above thoughts really aren’t huge asks in my opinion!

E