I ran into a puzzling situation. I figure I must have set something wrong but I can’t think what it is. maybe lack of sleep…
A client sent me tracks to mix. Not a complex project, just 48 tracks. Anyway, I imported them into a new project and did all the work. Sent it back to him and he said it’s way too fast. Hmmm. After a lot of head-scratching, I decided to just change the tempo of the timeline. I wasn’t even using a click track as they were already finished tracks. The project tempo was defaulted to 120 and his tune was 92. When I changed the tempo of the project, it played back at the right speed. Huh? I could swear I never saw that before. Typically, I don’t even pay attention to the project tempo, especially if I’m mastering or mixing a song with many tempo changes. Why is the project tempo controlling the speed of the wav files? I thought for sure it used to only control midi.
What setting did I accidentally poke? Is that the time base vs musical on the audio track? I’d like to figure it out so I don’t run into this again. I looked fairly dumb for a moment.
Sounds like all your tracks are in musical mode. Yes audio does follow the tempo in that mode. Check the header of the tracks in the edl and see if musical mode is activated. You might not see it so right click on the header and select track view options or whatever it’s called and unhide it if that the case.
This can be annoying for sure - I have time mode set on all my audio tracks in my templates which can quietly switch over to music mode when importing sound effects or music loops with edits done in an outside editor. I always have to keep an eye on the files and the tracks when importing new files for the first time. Fortunately, its an easy flip back to time mode and you’re on your way. Once you’ve done that switch on the files / tracks, I don’t believe they will switch back to music mode again, but certainly stay vigilant!
Thank you both for that information. It was making me lose my mind for a while there.
Good to know the fix is simple