It was hidden so you had to click your way 3 or 4 layers down to get there, then it was the same way back. Now in C13 with your instrument of choice now you can knock 4 times or whatever and the tempo will change on the fly while you’re sketching all kinds of ideas, and the tempo and metronome is right there with you. In C12 and previous versions it got a little too tedious and eventually you got out of “the zone”, or at least I did …
Now that’s of course not the only thing that got lost when they killed the beat calculator so I hope they resurrect it!
Yeah true, it was a little buried in the tempo track window/editor I guess. Suggestion (for what it’s worth) I’m sure you can stay relatively in time by yourself, I’d highly suggest recording ideas without any click or tempo at all. I find it can lock people into something they can’t get out of, or they start focusing on that instead of the idea itself. The best calculator (which will be restored, the film muso’s will make sure of it) and to a lesser extent, the tempo detection is so good that you can retro retrospectively create a tempo to match if your that sure you’re not going to track it again, which of course, you will. Anyway that’s just me
It’s a little more to it than that but that’s a topic for another day. Let’s just say you have some benefits with a lot of little sketches already lined up with the tempo track if you use the “Set definition from tempo” & “Write definition to audio file” and then use it elsewhere. Going all the way through 4 layers of buttons just to tap and leave through 4 buttons more for every little audio file was a bit much I thought. That’s the method to the madness.
Yeah sure thing, I understand. That is a cool feature I’ve been getting into more and more lately, also the other way around can be useful, set from audio, cause it links to that event, when you copy it to another location on the timeline the tempo track will update accordingly. Good stuff.
Just a thought for the time being, considering we’re only talking about the number of beats / seconds / 60, couldn’t one of you clever people out there just make s a PLE routine to do this? who knows, it might actually be quicker and rerun-able?
Hello dear colleagues,
To me those guys - the Cubase team, are sitting on their ears and eyes… They don’t read anything here, they don’t ask us for the important things, they don’t care about us at all… After the terrible GUI change, they removed the Beat Calculator…
I did an improvement request for a single powerful tool like the Beat Detective in Pro Tools, which does an amazing job. Cubase is a bit chaotic when it comes to audio editing, most of the tools are placed in different places.
Fortunately Dorico is advancing more and more in the right direction, and now Pro Tools has perpetual licensing again, so I could move to this DAW. I don’t need Cubase that much anymore for composing music…
I do a lot of sampling. It was so easy for me to select the range of my sample, go to beat calculator to get the correct tempo of the sample, and then audio warp my sample. The temp tap button is ok but I’ve found that I can never tap the correct tempo. Even with drums in the sample the tempo comes out too fast or slow but never on point like the beat calculator. It is affecting the way I make music
