I have an audio file which I tempo mapped with the Warp Tool. I have the same track, this time with no vocals in it, just below it in the Project Window. This instrumental version is in Musical Mode. I am noticing that it no longer aligns (especially near the songs end) with the non Musical Mode version. See attached. Ideas?
So your second Track’s Audio has been stretched a bit (which is what Musical Mode does) while the Audio on the first isn’t stretched, also what you’d expect.
Your Audio wouldn’t stretch if the Project’s Fixed Tempo matched the Audio’s Tempo setting in the Pool. And of course you want the Pool’s setting to reflect the actual Tempo in the Audio.
Why should musical mode stretch anything unless I change the Project BPM?
The stretching & shrinking does not occur because you make a change. It occurs because there is a difference between the Audio File’s Tempo and the Project’s Tempo - no need to change anything.
So confusing. How does Cubase know what the audio file’s tempo is? I know in Digital Performer the manual says "DP doesn’t know what the tempo of your file is, so use the menu command (similar to Cubase Apply Project tempo to audio file command or whatever it is).
Cubase doesn’t know, it gets the info from the file itself (I believe it’s kept in its metadata). You can manually enter the Tempo in the Pool. The Tempo is only really important when the file is set to Musical Mode.
Yes indeed, but then there’s a lot of complex stuff going on - this is the deep end of the pool.
