Beat Calculator is an important part of my workflow.
I upgraded to Cubase 12 a week or so ago and Beat Calculator is no longer functioning correctly. It is reporting as 11.5 bpm lower than the actual bpm.
Example:
Huey Lewis and the News - The Power of Love. It’s 119 all day. We are all familiar with what 120 sounds like so it’s clearly around 120. When using Beat Calculator, the result is 107.5.
Any other beat calculator is giving me the correct result.
I’ve restarted the program and tried clicking Refresh and tried using the mouse. For whatever reason, Cubase is absolutely positive that this song is at 107.5. I don’t get it.
What’s strange is, if I use Tempo Detection, the engine knows the tempo:
Any advice or ideas? I looked in the manual and there wasn’t much.
If I turn on a metronome in my room to 119 and click along, this is the result of Beat Calculator even when I have no session open:
Any ideas on this? I’d love to get this fixed. Beat Calculator is exactly 11.5 bpm slow no matter what I do.
Thanks Steve. I’ll try a different bpm and see if it changes the bpm delta.
Edit: I’ll try when Cubase gets done “Checking Licenses” yet again. This time it occurred when I closed the session. It locks up but if I wait 5 or so minutes it usually gets done checking whatever it is checking and will let go of the process. This behavior is far more frustrating than the bpm issue but there is a separate thread for it.
Here is what I see on empty session when I open Beat Calculator.
Here are videos of the Test. Volume warning: sorry, the space bar sounds like a baseball bat hitting a block of ice. But this will show the experiment. It is not 11.5 bpm, it is scaling or it is just random.
I try Beat Calculator with spacebar at default 120 using Cubase metronome as guide for about 10 measures.
Cubase says 109
Repeat the test with mouse instead for about 10 measures:
I try again with empty session and set the bpm to 160. I do this test a couple of times and the result is 145.0:
I close Cubase and it locks up (this has happened for years so I’m used to killing the process, but it’s disappointing that the program can’t close itself properly even in safe mode with all plugins and prefs disabled):
Any ideas? Reinstall? I installed it one or two weeks ago. Version info below:
I don’t think these are related, so I’ll focus on the beat detection thing. There are threads about it the stall during launch though. I would be patient and wait for the next update which will fix a bunch of stuff, and then revisit it.
The bpm thing is pretty weird. But since I can’t reproduce it, and there aren’t other reports in the forum about it, I figure it’s something local to you machine. What that might be, I don’t know, but maybe another forum member will weigh in with something more useful.
OK now I’m totally perplexed. It is happening in Cubase 12, 11, and 10 on my machine.
I’ll do some troubleshooting with different devices unplugged, try some different interfaces, and will go over any configuration documentation I can find.
I will probably uninstall all versions of Cubase and reinstall from scratch.
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Processor AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 16-Core Processor, 3750 Mhz, 16 Core(s), 32 Logical Processor(s)
Edit: Machine info for anyone who happens to encounter this:
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|User Name|XDRC\shane||
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|Installed Physical Memory (RAM)|32.0 GB||
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The BPM calc in cubase is completely unrelated to the tempo detect function. I think this is caused by some setting related to input devices like mouses and keyboards. Maybe dirver related, bios related… I’m really just guessing here.
I understand but you’re asking me to use a different beat calculator when I used three of them that all said 119, and the song is in 119. So I just wasn’t sure what you were getting at with that request, but I will try it.
