Years ago, I recorded a project with around 20 audio tracks including acoustic drums, instruments, vocals etc.
I’m happy with it overall, and (as the drummer has passed) I cannot rerecord it, however the timing is a little off. It’s not too bad… but it’s enough to destroy the music (for me). Does cubase have a feature set that would allow it to detect poor tempo in (say) the drum tracks, and then apply changes to the whole project to fix the timing up? I know the real answer is to play better, but that’s impossible now.
Unfortunately the audio quantisation @Johnny_Moneto mentioned will not work well with a full project of real instruments. Sometimes people put up YouTube videos, even though they’ve never actually experienced the results. It’s actually quite misleading, and I don’t want you to mess up your project. My advice is make a backup if you’re going to take the advice of someone who is shooting in the dark like @Johnny_Moneto.
Definitely possible but the automatic ways don’t always do what you want. First as mentioned already was it recorded to a click? If not then life is so much easier if you do tempo detect so you have bars and beats to work with. There are plenty of videos on this.
Once you have that then depending on what the problems are I would manually warp the problem parts. (You can do drums as a whole. Forgot the name of it) As mentioned I would back up the project first. Warping may take a bit of practice as it’s easy to shift bits you don’t want to. I tend to get drums done first and then line up the other instruments to them. It all depends on how bad it is.
There’s nothing you can apply to the whole project, but it’s definitely possible to fix the tempo.
If you want to do it yourself, you’ll have to make sure that the bleed, overheads, and room mics stay in sync with whatever changes you make to the other drum mics. For that, you need to use Group Editing and Phase-Coherent AudioWarp, after extracting the tempo from the audio and matching it to the project tempo (using Auto Adjust and then making manual adjustments). It will probably be easier and yield better results if the audio is first chopped into smaller whole phrases.
