Be kind. I haven’t used cubase since the 90s but I seem to remember this similar issue. When I use logic, studio one pro, or other DAWS when I drop a midi loop from toontrack at the same tempo as the midi loop, when the loop says 8 bars, it is eight bars. When I do the same thing in nuendo the loop is 32 bars.
I do have nuendo set on bars.
In another scenario, when I try to create a four click hi hat count before the song starts; in other daws I just use bar one and add four hihat hits in bar one. When I do this in Nuendo the four hits sound twice as fast even thought i am using 89 bpm in both studio one and cubase. What am I doing wrong and what part of the manual explains this? I have read the AI answers and the answers try to answer Steinberg handles midi and timing different that studio one….but doesn’t explain why….which is typical AI slop.
So anyone have any insight it would be greatly appreciated. I used pro tools for over 25 years but I am tired of the subscriptions and the lack of midi for programming synths, drum machines, etc. I like presonus alright but the new version is buggy for me and I am not sure about the Fender aquisition so I am trying out other DAWs. I have had Nuendo since 13 but I haven’t really leaned into it to learn it, but with 15 I am really going to give Nuendo a try…..but this is a bit strange to me and I feel like I am missing something.
It sounds like the time signature in your Nuendo is set to 1/4, while the other DAWs are set to 4/4. 4/4 is the default time signature in most, if not all DAWs including Nuendo. Maybe it was changed on your install by accident at some point.
You know let me check. I was so focused on setting up a song template that I changed and played around with so many parameters that I could have done something goofy like that by accident. One of the things that attracts me back to Nuendo is how flexible and tweak able everything is and how you can change things from multiple windows. But that is also what makes me the most frustrated is the knowledge that in order to get the most out of the software a user really needs to know Nuendo inside out including key commands. I will check this later today when I get home from errands.
A very good thought from @Johnny_Moneto . A 1/4 time signature is what you get after you detect tempo, so if your workflow entails importing a file and then using detect tempo, it must be a frequent occurence that you are left with a 1/4 time signature.
It’s an easy fix though, just double click the 1/4 flag on the signature track and replace it with 4/4.
This is what happened, although I am still so new to Nuendo that I don’t know how. It must have happened during my menu diving because the 4/4 wasn’t even visible in the tool bar. However, after I expanded by tool bar it was set to 1/4. My only thought is I have been down the rabbit hole as an experienced DAW user (and somewhat remember some of the aspects of Cubase from the mid 1990s) that I probably got into more trouble than someone new to DAWS in general and hit some key command from a previous DAW by accident which set off a chain of dumb on my end.
Thank you for thinking of the obvious….once I read this, I immediately started thinking that this is probably the answer. It was such a simple check I decided to look at the song before I went to work. So thank you @Johnny Moneto especially for the lack of judgement because I feel pretty silly right now.
