Melodyne Tempo map to Cubase

Cubase
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I just upgraded Melodyne editor to Melodyne Studio 4 (not yet installed) and am excited to try its new tempo matching features on a project with no drums that I was having problems with using Cubase tempo mapping.

Does anyone know if Cubase can read or import a tempo map made in Melodyne studio 4?

Thanks, Stephen

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From memory of watching the new melodyne videos, i’m sure you have to export a midi file from melodyne which contains your tempo map?

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Good question, I’ll try to investigate and report back if any conclusion are to be made.

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I’m curious about this as well. Hopefully it’s not an ARA specific feature.

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Experimenting with this at the moment. Not a MIDI expert at all, so until now I just found a clumsy method.

  1. Do your tempo thing in Melodyne
  2. Export a ‘tempo map’ - which creates a MIDI file
  3. Open Cubase but don’t load a project
  4. Import that tempo map MIDI file
  5. Voila! Cubase gets it automatically! (If you open the tempo track it gets visible.)

However, I can’t get Cubase to not create a cluster of useless tracks:

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Also have no idea how to implement a tempo track into an existing project. I’m RTLM (reading the lovely manual) currently… :laughing:

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… checked the options for MIDI import in preferences.

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Unticked ‘Ignore Master Track Events on Merge’ > the tempo information from the MIDI file replaces the tempo in an existing project. (‘Master Track’ means tempo track here - sounds like something that’s left over from an ancient incarnation of Cubase…)

Set ‘Destination’ to ‘MIDI Tracks’ > no unwanted instruments are created, great :sunglasses:

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Thanks, good to know. I’ll be diving in as soon as I finish some other work. Hoping it will help with a project brought into cubase from tape without drums. Before I entered a tempo manually and then added the drums with midi, worked for the most part but there were still sections of the song that seemed a little off and kinda blew my confidence. It could be that the tape itself had stretched before bringing it in to Cubase. We’ll see how it goes.

Thanks, Stephen