# Howto: Midi Time detection properly

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**Category:** Cubase\
**Created:** [September 22, 2022, 7:06pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/howto-midi-time-detection-properly/808075 "2022-09-22T19:06:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![jonas3025](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jonas3025](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/jonas3025)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 7:06pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/howto-midi-time-detection-properly/808075/1 "2022-09-22T19:06:52Z")

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Hi,  
There is a passage which I recorded from a piano into midi. Now everyone says I should use Time detection and then only little has to be corrected after. But I tried, divided / multiplied etc. But no success. Especially, you should be able to move the time points in the temp track. If I do that in the direction of the analysis, I basically have to move all the following ones and only then it is correct. If the passage is a minute, it takes me a while to do that.  
Is there an easier solution?  
Thanks for answering.

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**Author:** ![Martin.Jirsak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Martin.Jirsak](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/Martin.Jirsak)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2022, 8:04am UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/howto-midi-time-detection-properly/808075/2 "2022-09-23T08:04:19Z")

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Hi,

Do I understand you right, you played your music freely. Now you want to get the Tempo, right?

Or do you want to quantise your freely recorded MIDI data?

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**Author:** ![jonas3025](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jonas3025](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/jonas3025)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2022, 9:48am UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/howto-midi-time-detection-properly/808075/3 "2022-09-23T09:48:57Z")

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Thanks for your answer. Yes, I recorded it freely. Now my plan is to quantize it to a tempo (the one I had in my head when playing in order to add drums or cut/paste parts. [I know, ideally, it would be easier to record with some basic drum track or metronome already in the back. But unfortunately for me, the outcome of the playing is never as good…]

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**Author:** ![Martin.Jirsak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Martin.Jirsak](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/Martin.Jirsak)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2022, 11:37am UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/howto-midi-time-detection-properly/808075/4 "2022-09-23T11:37:27Z")

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Hi,

Then you have to setup the Tempo +/- (you can use the Beat Calculator). Then use the Quantize tool.