Divide the project's tempo by 2 without modifying the audio

Cubase
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Hello, I’ve made good progress on a track with a project tempo of 150 bpm, but I’m having arrangement problems and I’d like to halve the tempo (to 75 bpm) without modifying the audio or having to re-export everything into a new project. Is it possible to do this in Cubase?

Thanks

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Hi,

If you don’t want to Audio Events follow the tempo changes, disable the Musical Mode on the Audio Events. Then change the tempo.

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The Musical Mode is already disable but all the audio tracks are still divided by two

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You can try to additionally switch the audio tracks to Linear Time Base.

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That’s a good trick for half time. I need to remember that.

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Hi,

The disabled Musical Mode affects the tempo itself. The Linear Timebase affects the Start position of the Events/Parts.

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I apply Linear Timebase in the Cubase preference, still the same problem.

Or do I need to change the project tracks directly to Linear Timebase? But how do you do that?

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Hi,

You have to enable it on the track. The orange note icon change to the watch icon.
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