Insert time?

I know you can delete time, but can you insert it. Not found in manual.
I have my most complex piece with lots of times signature and tempo changes, polyrhythms, etc.,orchestrated from originally an piano piece. As I was playing one measure of the score I noticed it sounded strange. It was as a measure of 5/2 like the following measure but something sounded wrong. When I went to my handwritten original score that was so hard to map out, I found it was really a measure of 11/4 and that why the beats didn’t match the click. so then I saw that if I changed the time signature to 11, then the beginning of the next measure, which was 5/2 was now in the 11 /4 measure and everything subsequent was misaligned.

Hi,

Yes, the very same way as you can delete it. The very same process, the very same menu. Just choose Insert instead of Delete.

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I realized that this isn’t going to be the solution in this situation, but there are other times I have wanted to. but if I go to edit>range> I see delete time, but delete silence, paste time -no delete time. Is there another menu route?

Hi,

What exactly do you mean?

I mean I see no insert time in the menu. Insert silence isn’t the same thing is it?

It is. It will insert empty bars.

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Paste Time > inserts copied event(s) and moves all following events further backwards
Insert Silence > inserts actual silence and moves all following events further backwards

EDIT: It is called PASTE Time and not INSERT Time in the English Cubase Version. Thanks @m.c ! I am working with both the English and the German versions. Seems that Germans have to be more resourceful with the few words they have :wink:

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Yes, this is Paste Time. Edit: Can’t remember right now if it really shifts next events or if pastes upon them…

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Lost in translation…: the German version does not differentiate the associated verb, it is both “einfügen” (english insert or paste). Hence, the confusion:

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Ah, I see :slight_smile: this explains also Martin’s response concerning identical words.

Haha, something was ringing in the back of my head when I typed “Insert time”. Since I rely solely on key commands and I am working with the German version right now I could not put the finger on it. I just had the feeling in the back of my head that something was off. Now, I know :wink:

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Shift it is.

Based on replies, I experimented. I went into a project some measures, drew a range and found insert silence created an empty space, so that seems the solution.

Paste time was grayed out, so I assume time would have to be selected first somehow, I suppose by cutting.

By Cutting or Copying.

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Not quite the solution. I have a song project I want to play along with but it starts immediately at M1, so I miss the downbeat and don’t have a good feel for the 1st measure.

So I drew a range of the first measure and then chose range insert silence. When I heard a bass start before it got to the 1st measure, I scrolled down and saw some tracks didn’t move forward, while others did. So I thought I need to select everything. I did so with the same result. So it desynchronized tracks. I tried dragging over all tracks and selecting all events and same result.

Never experienced this. Whether I have random tracks or parts selected, folders open or closed, the time or number of bars inserted does what you’d expect. I often do as you wanted do do in your example, without issues.
I will say that if the locator range is within a (lengthy) part, that part will be split.

Maybe Process Bars will do the trick for you

More information about Process Bars

Kudos to @Johnny_Moneto for coming up with that idea in a recent thread :wink:

For Insert Silence, all you need to set are the Left and Right Locators. There’s no need to make a Range selection.
Regarding the tracks that did not move forward, any chance these tracks were locked?

I did just set the locators to the 1st measure. but you have to go to range in edit still don’t you?

the tracks were locked. very insightful, thanks.

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