Is there a way to add markers to an audio file directly?

I’m trying to make a mockup, and for that I’m creating markers in specific places in the original song. Problem is, if for whatever reason I change the tempo in a section (the tempo was already in the MIDI file I downloaded), the markers, created in a typical Cubase markers track, stay put while the waveform moves. So if I put a marker that was, let’s say, where the brass starts, and I change the tempo, then the marker is not moved along with that part of the waveform, it stays in place and the audio moves, so it’s useless.

I thought perhaps adding the markers in Wavelab Pro 12 and then importing the audio file in Cubase Pro 14 would show me the markers in the audio itself some way, but that doesn’t seem to be the case, and honestly I don’t know if it’s possible.

The only way I see to keep the markers which are in a marker track stuck to the music in the audio track is to set the audio event to musical. But that doesn’t do me any good because it compresses or stretches the audio according to the tempo at that section. I don’t know if 120 is the tempo that plays it at the original speed, but in a project that has a lot of different tempos, it’s like a kid playing with a tempo wheel, accelerating or slowing down the music, and that’s also useless to me.

So I was just wondering if there’s a way, either in just Cubase Pro 14 or Wavelab Pro 12, or even Spectralayers 11, to add the markers in a way that they stick to the same exact place in the audio file, regardless of the tempo.

One thing, I had forgotten about the function “Extract markers from Wave file”, but that doesn’t help me other than bringing markers that I did in Wavelab Pro 12 into Cubase, because it puts them in the selected marker track, and if I change the tempo, those are regular markers in the marker track, they don’t move with the audio file. So it’s no different than me just adding markers in Cubase directly.

The marker moves with the timeline at whatever bar/beat its set at.

You’re changing the tempo, but your tempo doesn’t match up with your audio. The marker is doing exactly what it should, it’s your audio that isn’t lining up with the projects set tempo.

Ok, but what I need is to have the audio play at its original speed, so it can’t be a musical event/part, and markers that stay with the audio exactly where I put them.

Is that possible at all?

Unfortunatley there seems to be no way to attach a marker to any event or part within the project.
Markers are always attached to the musical or linear time base only.

Bummer. This is one of those things that I’m used to have coming from the video world, but that I can see how it would make sense to add to Cubase as well.

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