vxla
March 2, 2023, 12:00am
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How can I modify the click track to represent, say, dotted quarter = 138bpm?
I’ve got my click pattern set for the dotted quarter notes, but the time represented by the click is still only in quarter notes.
Thanks in advance.
vxla
March 2, 2023, 12:11am
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Maybe it’s still not possible?
I don’t think setting the project time signature to 6/8 will set the click to dotted quarters. I’ve never been able to get that result. I would LOVE to be wrong about this!
The funny thing is I’m pretty sure you COULD do this until Cubase 8.
I remembered this: [gelöst] externe VST² - sidechain einrichten - Auf Deutsch - Steinberg Forums
and I just tried it in Cubase 7 and you could set the count base to 3/8 in Cubase 7. Might be a little programming slip, but I definitely agree with NYFC th…
It’s not possible. We have to do the math ourselves. For all purposes Cubase needs the M.M. number to be in quarters. In your case, Dotted Quarter = 138 needs to be Quarter = 207 (138x1,5).
I have made a feature request here, vote if you care to, and if you have votes to spare.
Cubase only understands quarters as the beat value. If we were playing a 6/8 tune and tapping our foot at 1 and 4, then we would agree we have a dotted quarter as our beat, and we would define the metronome as dotted quarter = x.
Cubase doesn’t understand that. It only counts quarters, tapping its foot at 1, 3, 5. In this case, for our song to sound as we expect it, we must multiply our tempo value by 1.5.
If we were tapping our foot 60 times a second in our example, Cubase tempo would have to…
vxla
March 2, 2023, 2:58pm
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Wow. Well, thank you.
I can’t imagine how compound meters isn’t something Cubase does…really…
Well, it does do them. But the M.M. number is wrong. Aahhh, maybe some day…
