Dragging tracks

Fairly new to this program, and I’ve just tried using it to make a setlist for my band.

There are a couple of things that I feel like I must be too dumb to figure out how to do, because there’s no way they wouldn’t be included in the basic functionality of a program like this.

First of all, when I’m dragging tracks to line them up to a beat, the waveforms stay dormant, so I can’t actually see how the track is going to line up until I let go of the mouse. Since the start of the track does move, I could split the track and drag it to where it needs to be, then open the track up again so it’s the full track without the split…. but once the track is split, the option to drag the track out on the left hand side is not available. In fact, it seems like dragging a track from the left hand side is NEVER available…? I must be doing something wrong because again, there’s no way these could not be basic functions in a program like this.

Secondly, importing tempo maps… Do you really have to pay over $1000 for cubase PRO just to be able to import a tempo map? This is again, such a basic feature for a program like this. We are playing back backing tracks, and some are inevitably going to have tempo changes. Even if they don’t have tempo changes, why is importing a tempo map with a MIDI track not just automatically done?

Requested here a few times and we got promiss for future (import tpo+sign from imported MIDI file). But unfortunately no schedule announced regarding

Is there a roadmap posted somewhere?

Just a thought - If you are only using audio backing tracks you don’t really need a tempo track unless you need the metronome and even then you could use an audio click track.

I would also guess that your WAVs start at the same place (i.e. they’re all the same length). Put the playback head to where you want when you import and they should all line up. And you know you can import multiple tracks at the same time?

…obviously none of this applies if you’re doing anything complex.

We are working on it and import tempomap from midifile should be available with the next version.

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