Cubase 14 tempo tracks not importing

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Is the import Tempo Track feature broken, or is there some new trick to it? I cannot get it working. I’m exporting tempo tracks from midi projects (tempo and signature changes, depending on the songs), but these cannot be imported into a new project. Tempo stays put on 120 and no signature changes gets imported. Any suggestions?

EDIT (as per below response):

It seems indeed that I cannot import .smt files, nothing happens on import. Doesn’t matter if it’s a session with a lot of tracks, or a totally blank new session. Same result on trying to import tempo track.

Steps:
1 - open a new project or existing project
2 - file - import tempo track - choose .smt file - click to open
3 - nothing happens

Cubase Pro 14.0.5 Build 125 (Intel)
Apple MacBook Pro 2019, Intel i9, macOS Sonoma 14.7.1

So the workaround for now is that I open another project with the tempo track I want, then manually copy the time signature and tempo changes, and paste them into the project. Would love for .smt file import to work again.

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(I’m coming from Cubase 12, the same Tempo Tracks can be imported into 12 where it adjusts tempo and signature changes accordingly, so it seems to be the import function in 14 that is not working)

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Hi,

Isn’t it placed to a new Track Version?

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There are no new track versions made when I try to import a tempo track. I can create a new version of the tempo track, but no matter if I make the import tempo track at the very start of session, or later, nothing happens on import.

If it matters, I’m on Mac, Sonoma 14.7.1.

Anyone else had any issues with tempo track?

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It seems indeed that I cannot import .smt files, nothing happens on import. Doesn’t matter if it’s a session with a lot of tracks, or a totally blank new session. Same result on trying to import tempo track.

Steps:
1 - open a new project or existing project
2 - file - import tempo track - choose .smt file - click to open
3 - nothing happens

Cubase Pro 14.0.5 Build 125 (Intel)
Apple MacBook Pro 2019, Intel i9, macOS Sonoma 14.7.1

So the workaround for now is that I open another project with the tempo track I want, then manually copy the time signature and tempo changes, and paste them into the project. Would love for .smt file import to work again.

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Same here. Not importing any Tempo Information via standard midi or tempo track on mac.

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Any reports on this on windows 10/11?

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Hi,

I can confirm this. Reported to Steinberg. Thank you.

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Is this bug still being worked on? Tempo track import is still not working with the latest update. Importing .smt files do nothing still.

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Had the same issue but found a work around. Instead of importing a tempo track, click “import tracks from project.” Select the project you want to import your tempo map from, and then select the tempo track. This solved the problem for me!

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I’m seeing this same issue as well. I’m on an Apple Silicon Mac, Cubase 14.0.10 Build 144. Trying to workaround this by using Import → Tracks from Project isn’t working as the Tempo Track is unselectable with a warning triangle next to the name.

I enabled usage logging to see if any debug logging was printed, but unfortunately there was nothing helpful.

{"smtg_type":"smtg_subaction","smtg_name":"Import Master Track/File","smtg_eventType":"Gcommand","smtg_time":1737399056027,"smtg_instance_uid":"9FF999A96583412C956A20FF94372FD5"}
{"smtg_type":"smtg_action","smtg_name":"Import Master Track/File","smtg_time":1737399056027,"smtg_instance_uid":"9FF999A96583412C956A20FF94372FD5"}
{"smtg_type":"smtg_subaction","smtg_name":"Title:Import Master Track","smtg_result":"Track: Tempo, Track: Signature","smtg_eventType":"ActionExecuted","smtg_time":1737399069680,"smtg_instance_uid":"9FF999A96583412C956A20FF94372FD5"}
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Being new to the whole tempo map thing, I hope I’m not mistaken but I think I have a problem that is quite close to what’s described in previous answers: I can export wav with embedded tempo data but it seems impossible to import said tempo map from the audio file. At first I thought I was missing something but I’m pretty sure Cubase can’t extract a tempo map from a Broadcast Wav file (nor from a wav file with iXML tempo definition). Can anyone confirm that? I’d like to add the file itself isn’t the issue because i can definitely get the tempo map in Logic Pro 11 (I’m on a m2 Mac Studio).

I tried importing from the file menu, by draging & dropping into the arranger, and I also tried getting the tempo map with the “tempo from event”. Nothing has worked so far.

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Export and import tempo track as standard midi file (c14.0.10) per Greg Ondo 02/21/2025 Club Cubase:

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