In my project I wanted to change the tempo from 120 to 130. So the audio files were too slow. Without using time stretch, I recreated the audio files at the correct tempo.
Now I can hear the correct tempo of the audio track, but the parts are still too long, adjusted to 120 tempo.
I then removed all of them from the pool and re-inserted them, then it fit. Is there an easier way?
Hi,
You cannot change the audio file tempo (speed it up) without using the time stretch.
Does that mean that the tempo of the audio files listed in the pool is fixed even if you later replace them with others? Here it seems as if the pool management does not notice that the new files have a different speed.
Hi,
The tempo listen in the Pool is just a text flag. It has nothing to do with the real tempo of the file.
So the problem lies elsewhere. The fact is that all the adjusted audio data is actually in the assigned folder, but it is displayed with the wrong length in Cubase.
Time stretching would then make the parts look appropriate but would be too fast.
You lost me here. Can you explain in what way you recreated the files? Did you or the musician play in the same phrase but faster?
Yes, I play the same role, but faster. Then I have a new audio file. And I add that as part of the audio track. But it’s longer than it should be, even though the tempo of the audio part matches the tempo of the project
If the surplus of the audio file is just silence you could just shorten the event in the project accordingly.
I still don’t know if I understand you. Could you post a couple of screenshots with before and after the tempo change?
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In the 2nd picture I created a new track, the old audio file is above and the new one is below.
Same length in project but different speed.
Hi,
Could you provide step by step, how did you change the tempo, please?
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I create a project with tempo A (e.g. 120). Then I add audio tracks to the instrument tracks and insert audio files as parts.
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I change the tempo because the previous one is too fast/slow for me (e.g. in 130). The instrument parts adapt, the audio parts do not.
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I replace the audio parts with new ones with the new tempo. They sound appropriate, the length stays the same.
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So I delete all the parts and delete the list in the pool, then I add the new audio files. Then everything fits.
I would like to dispense with point 4.
Hi,
Sorry, I don’t understand this sentence at all.
This is quite critical step. How did you change the tempo, please? Did you change it in the Transport panel or in the Tempo Editor? Has the Tempo Track been activated or not? Our did you change the tempo another way (in the Pool for example)?
In general:
- If the Musical Mode is enabled on the Audio Event (or in the Pool for the given Audio Clip) then the audio follows the project’s tempo changes. If you move the Clip from Pool to the project, the audio becomes time-stretched and the tempo follows the project. If you adapt the tempo of the project, the audio becomes time-stretched and it follows the new tempo.
- If the Musical Mode is disabled, that audio stay is it was, if you change the tempo. It’s not time-stretched in any way.
Please, don’t be confused by Musical/Linear Time Base of the track. That’s something different.
If I’m understanding it correctly you want the audio to change to match the tempo of the song. Open your project up in it’s original tempo, select all audio events, go to audio/advanced/set definition from tempo and apply. You can then change tempo and and audio will change with it.
Thank you @Martin.Jirsak and @smapmap for the hints. They will help me.
@Martin.Jirsak: I changed the tempo in the transport panel. Tempo Track is activated.