Change Project Tempo, Not Audio

[H20nly]

I did a dumb thing a few weeks ago and imported a bunch of stems from another DAW but left my project tempo on default 120.00

I need to change it now without affecting all the audio parts. I need to globally exclude all tracks and change the project bpm to 89.00

I imported a few more tracks today. We just got done recording vocals. We’re trying to move parts in the arrangement and realized why they weren’t aligning on the grid. facepalm
Hoping someone on right now has a quick easy fix.

[raino]

I’d probably save a copy of the Project ‘as is’ in case you need to get back.

1. In the Pool Select all the Audio files & uncheck Musical Mode
2. In the Pool set the Tempo on all the files to 89 or whatever the original is
3. Change the Project Tempo to 89
4. Move the Audio Parts in the Project Window to their desired location
5. If you intend to later time-stretch Audio make sure to re-enable Musical Mode

Here some additional info on how this kind of stuff works in Cubase.

How Musical Mode and Linear/Musical Timebase Interact

How Musical Mode and Linear/Musical Timebase Interact Timebase - Applies to an entire Track. A Track’s Timebase determines if Events on the Track have their START Location measured in Bars & Beats or Minutes & Seconds Musical Timebase - Start is measured in Beats Linear Timebase - Start is measured in Seconds Musical Mode - Applies to an entire Audio File and will impact all Events created from that file throughout the entire Project. A File’s Musical Mode determines if an Event’s LENGTH i…

[Johnny_Moneto]

What Raino said above… pointing out that you should also put the tracks, that house the audio that you don’t want to change, to Linear Time Base.
If Cubase prompts you whether the events should be moved with the musical base or remain in time where they are chose the latter.

Anything that is supposed to stay in the absolute time, rather than adhere to the musical grid in any way, should be set to

• track is set to linear time base
• events have musical mode switched off

[H20nly]

Thanks. I tried that, but it didn’t seem to work. I probably did something wrong.

I was able to solve the problem though. It was tedious, but I selected each track one by one and disabled ‘Switch time base between Musical and Linear’. After that, I was able to change the bpm. The song played as expected.

There’s probably a better way, like don’t forget to set the bpm in the first place, but this way got the job done. I had already mixed too many of the stems to start over…

[raino]

@H20nly

I selected each track one by one and disabled ‘Switch time base between Musical and Linear’

Not at Cubase, but pretty sure you don’t need to do it one-by-one.

@H20nly

There’s probably a better way, like don’t forget to set the bpm in the first place,

True, but we’ve all been there. The problem is when you’ve taken multiple steps involving Tempo manipulation you often have to back out of them in the correct order to get back to where you started. This is difficult when some of those steps were unknowingly taken.