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Editing tempo and signature
Merge Tempo From Tapping (Cubase only)
4. Tap the tempo on the Spacebar of the computer keyboard or with the mouse
button.
The tempo display will update the calculated tempo between each tap.
5. Click OK to close the Tap Tempo dialog.
The tapped tempo is now shown in the Beat Calculator’s BPM display. You can
insert it into the tempo track as described above.
Merge Tempo From Tapping (Cubase only)
This function allows you to create a complete tempo track based on your tapping.
Typically, you would use this if you have an audio file with no tempo mapping and want
to be able to add other material afterwards, etc.
1. Create an empty time-based MIDI track and, while playing back your audio
material, tap the new tempo on your MIDI keyboard and record the created notes
onto the new MIDI track.
Note that you must create note events – pedal events cannot be used for this
function.
2. Play back the audio and check that the timing of the MIDI notes corresponds to
that of the audio.
If necessary, edit the MIDI notes in an editor.
3. Select the MIDI part (or the individual notes in an editor) that you want to use for
the calculation.
4. Select “Merge Tempo From Tapping” from the Functions submenu of the MIDI
menu.
A dialog opens.
5. In the dialog, specify what type of note (1/2, 1/4, etc.) you tapped during the
recording.
If you activate the “Begin at Bar Start” option, the first note will automatically start
at the beginning of a bar when calculating the new tempo curve.
6. Click OK.
The project’s tempo is adjusted to the tapped notes.
7. Open the Project menu and select “Tempo Track” to check that the new tempo
information is reflected in the tempo curve.
Ö Another way of creating a tempo map for freely recorded audio would be to use the
Time Warp tool, see below.
The Time Warp tool (Cubase only)
The Time Warp tool lets you adjust the tempo track so that “musical time-based”
material (positions related to the tempo) matches “linear time-based” material
(positions in time). Some typical applications:
• When you have recorded music (audio or MIDI) without tempo reference or
metronome click, the Time Warp tool can be used for creating a tempo map that
fits the recording (allowing you to rearrange or add other material).
• When you are creating music for a movie and want to match certain positions in
the video with certain positions in the music.
The Time Warp tool makes use of the fact that tracks can be based on time positions
(linear time base) or positions related to tempo (musical time base), see
“Defining the
track time base” on page 90 for a description of these modes.