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Editing tempo and signature
The Time Warp tool (Cubase only)
Basic procedure
You use the Time Warp tool to drag a musical position (a position in bars+beats
format) to a certain position in time. This can be done in the Project window or in an
editor, as described below. Here is the general procedure:
1. Make sure tempo track mode is active.
You cannot use the Time Warp tool in fixed tempo mode.
2. Select the Time Warp tool.
Bars+Beats format is automatically selected for the ruler in the active window, and the ruler is
shown in brown.
3. Click in the window at a musical position and drag it so that it matches a position
in the material you are editing – e.
g. the start of an event, a certain “hit” within an
audio event, a frame in a video clip, etc.
When you click with the Time Warp tool, it snaps to the grid in the window.
Dragging the start of the bar to the start of the audio event.
While you are dragging, the track(s) you are editing are temporarily switched to linear
time base. This means that the contents of the tracks remain at the same time
positions regardless of the tempo (there is an exception to this in the Project window,
see below).
4. When you release the mouse button, the musical position you clicked on matches
the time position you dragged it to.
This is because the Time Warp tool changed the last tempo event on the tempo
track (and/or added new ones, depending on window and usage), thereby scaling
the tempo track to fit.
Rules
• When you use the Time Warp tool, the tempo value of the last tempo event (before
the click position) is adjusted.
• If later tempo events exist, a new tempo event will be created at the click position.
This way, the later tempo event(s) will not be moved.
• When you click with the Time Warp tool, it snaps to the tempo grid in the window.
• When you drag the tempo grid to a new position, it can be magnetic to events in
the window.
In the Project window, this requires that Snap is activated and “Events” is selected
on the Snap Type pop-up menu – the grid will then snap to the start and end of
events or parts, and to markers. In the Sample Editor, this requires that Snap is
activated – the grid will then snap to hitpoints (if any). In the MIDI editors, this
requires that Snap is activated – the grid will then snap to the start and end of notes.
• The function will create tempo values up to 300 bpm.