I can't believe this is real. I was JUST struggling today with a customers recording that is all over the place and this is the exact solution I was looking for. You're like a blessing from the sky today for me Dom! HAHA! Cheers
@@joshchristian8598 cubase is weak yo, crashes all the time thanks to apple and typical amerkkka schemes to eliminated competition but I guess its ok on PC but who the hell wants to use a PC now that m1 Macs are hear...simple facts, is cubase better then logic (cracked on Mac that everyone can find online) or is it worth the money? thats Apple for you
Great clear explanation. Thanks, Dom. I'd love to see you do a followup explaining a bit more about fixing the tempo of a freely-played recording that doesn't use drums and doesn't have a lot of sharp attacks. Also, a bit more on how the warp tempo markings being moved affect the other markings in the track. And....sorry for all the requests....how about talking about how to back out or proceed if more work is needed on a recording that's already gone through your steps. Your tutorials are a lifesaver!
This is a life saver. Been searching and searching, and finally ur tutorial saved the situation. Top-notch, simple, straightforward and friendly. U are good!
thank you...this is really useful to sort my little timing glitches that others may not hear but you do and they spoil a good track for your own pleasure. Thanks Dom.
Dom it’s always a pleasure to see your instructional videos. You get to the point fast, extremely understandable and very positive and friendly. Thank you. Chris.
Now that, was a deep Cubase lesson!. I never knew the extent of this tool. It's going to take practice to learn this technique and get really good at it.....but I can already see the possibilities....thank you! 😊🙏
LOOOVE this video! Exactly the function I need, as I start every song with a vocal track, where I will snap my fingers for the beat, and lots of breaks and changes in the beat .
Getting into Cubase again after many years. Getting ready to continue production on some multi track projects that were recorded on 2” analog tape with no click and then digitized. I want to keep the feel of the original projects. This video just saved me a lot of time. Thank you.
Thank you so much for creating this. Began working on orchestral midi mock ups and this is critical information to make these tempo changes work. Subscribed!
Loved this video Dom, I'm just about to start doing some live recording sessions with a band so this couldn't have come at a better time. What a cool concept!
its every so years i look up the amazing videos of Don & Co to find how to do this. its in the manual, but its just to difficult to find out if you forgot or dont know. Big big thanks Don you rock and saved me SO much time.
Thanks, Dom! Others have correctly commented on how useful this tutorial has been. My observation is that the tune you used to demo tempo mapping was a surprise and not what I expected. I was wondering if you had been listening to Jeff Beck a bit more since his passing. Your tune reminded me a Jeff Beck Group era music. Anyway, keep up the great and practical content. Really useful to me. Thanks again.
thanks you. there are many videos about it, but that's the best one i've come across. i'm about to have to fix drum tracks on my upcoming album, and i was becoming very anxious about it. this saves me.
Thanks for the video Dom! I tried this method with a project where the audio was not recorded to a click, and in addition some of the audio tracks did not start right at the beginning of the piece but part way through. Those tracks went out of alignment with the others as soon as I activated the Tempo track to begin aligning the grid to the audio. I found the way to prevent this was to set all audio tracks’ time base to Linear rather than Musical mode before activating the Tempo track. That way all the audio tracks will stay aligned with each other, and you can then proceed with the rest of Dom's excellent advice!
Thanks for the time spent, it's really appreciated Dom. I have tracks from years ago recorded on a Tascam 688 and as a midi sync from the Tascam is only possible with a midizer , this seems an ideal solution ... albeit very time consuming ... I ain't as fast as you mate LOL ...Thanks again.🤜
I can't believe how much time I've wasted over the last few years doing this manually using tempo ramping and manual audio warp snapping. This is a godsend. Thank you so much!
Real nice explained! Thanks Dom! ... Now here is a question.. would possible to do the opposite? I have a clean and steady disco rhythm project totally on point. How can I use a humanized played Steve Gadd drum beat and take this "humanized rhythm" onto my clean disco project??? How can we do this?!
OMG Dom I struggled for 40 min trying to figure out what I was doing wrong watching this video about 20 times and couldn't get it to behave like it was in the video lol Then realise I had musical mode activated in the main window lol Boom now all is great and your video makes complete sense.. Well done Dom great content as always.
At the time you apply the magic advanced trick I’m used to “render in place” all tracks and continue with the newly rendered tracks. This I do because I didn’t know of the magic trick you described. Another thing learned. Thanks Dom!
I remember “correcting” the timing of multiple tracks only to find it sounded like a robotic machine, the tempo detection and warp tools in Cubase are my best friends for life. Thanks for the detailed explanation on how to properly use these functions.
I haven't done this in a while, but I recall it being even easier just tapping out a MIDI file, record a MIDI file where you're tapping the tempo, and then create a tempo map based on that MIDI file. This way you can perform the part. Then tweak the part. Then make the tempo map.
Tempo mapping can be a sobering job, more time than is worth it to rescue a bad take. You did a great job pointing out the less than obvious steps of the procedure. I hope no one walks away from this thinking “hey, I can fix anything!” Done creatively, mapping is like manna from heaven. Done forensically, it’s a total drag.
Well said. It's a chore for sure, but luckily, it's also pretty simple. Took me over an hour to fully fix up my drums, despite the simplicity of the process. BUT! Now I can freely adjust the song's tempo, sync MIDI and all the other fun stuff. So for me, it's well worth the effort, especially since I travel to record the drums and can't do more takes.
God bless you this is exactly what I needed! Using Tempo detection, my project kept getting messed up while cutting and pasting. The only thing missing is to make sure MUSICAL MODE is OFF otherwise it won't work, this was my issue getting it working.
I have no words to explain how wonderful are your explanations, including this !!! ... and also Cubase is gold. It is not possible teach as well as you teach the greatness of Cubase. Thanks again.
THANKS! Always wondered about this, never used it. Now I layerd 2 different songs with individual - no click recorded Tempo- on top of each other for a mashup
very very and very usefull thing. I've been working on Master of Puppets cover, and discovered that whole track almost every bit has a different tempo, and also that verse riff that is broken.... When I used this thing, I was able to recreate cover that has perfect original feeling and it is amazing!
Another great video Dom, thanks a million. I realised that you have to change to ”adapt to Zoom” from default ”use quantize” otherwise you might not be able to snap to the actual beat with the time warp tool.
Thank You Dom 🙏 Tempo Detect is an amazing feature. I use it a lot these days. It’s amazing how close Cubase works when doing it. I usually doesn’t move any hit points at all. If there are any, you can fix them later. And after you done the Advanced thing, you hide that tempo track, if you need it for later. If you need a tempo track you do a new one. Thank you 🙏 Always such super cool tutorials 🗽
Thanks for the vidéo. I used this technique recently on 4 recordings. But I think there is an important limitation not mentioned when you apply a fix tempo on all tracks: even if algorithms are better and better, the audio artefacts due to stretching are quite audible and not compatible with a "pro" sound. Even when subtle on bass for example, you can feel it may lack of energy suddenly. In my case I chose to keep a loose tempo and rather quantize the drum (slicing, no stretching). Then I sliced the vocals, aligned them and corrected some notes of the bass. Not perfect but definitely better than stretching artefacts.
However, days ago I saw a video about artefacts in musical mode that can be due to the "live" application of the stretching and can be removed by a cubase function that kinda render it. Not sure if would help or not as in the example artefacts were clicks. Artefacts I had were more like digital noise you may hear sometimes with streamed audio and a poor conection.
yeah, can ruin transients too. for smoother audio like vocals it can sound okay for small adjustments. problem with slicing instead of stretching is you can end up with gaps in the audio, so depending on what else is going on at the time, might sound artificial too. you can sometimes fix that by cutting and pasting tails but that's laborious to say the least.
You'd be surprised how many pro composers don't know about setting the audio definition. Great video. I completely changed my workflow coz I couldn't work with this technique once tempo changes had to be made
Huge thanks for the advice! I've tried this technique in Studio One and it totally worked! You just need to create a point on the Tempo track and than press Ctrl and click on this point. Thin line with the new grid location will show up, and you just need to align it with the transient. You're awesome, thanks again for sharing it!
wow, that was amazing, thank you very much Dom! i always bounced to tracks to embedd the tempo, didnt knew about that there is feature that would do this alone :-)
Excellent overview. It is a deep topic. When I have asked Cubase to calculate the tempo atutomatically, I have had to go in and delete or add tempo markings. It is probaly faster to do it from scratch as you have done here. In the case of a bass part not in time: it is possible to extract the groove from the drums and apply that to the bass part. It won't be perfect but it will save some steps. Bravo.
As usual Dom's excellent explanation does not disappoint: it matches the boldness of the video's title. I knew of several ways to do this but this is the first time I'm seeing this specific procedure. This way will work best for my needs. Thanks for sharing your gifts, Dom!
I've always struggled with this, and this explains it perfectly.
I can't believe this is real.
I was JUST struggling today with a customers recording that is all over the place and this is the exact solution I was looking for.
You're like a blessing from the sky today for me Dom! HAHA!
Cheers
There's no way anyone could have explained this procedure any more clearly. Bravo Dom!
Why not just tell ppl to buy logic or pro tools since cubase is a watered down copy?
Was coming to say... holy clarity of explanation and procedure ... so useful and hidden 🎉
@@mikehunt576😂
@@joshchristian8598 cubase is weak yo, crashes all the time thanks to apple and typical amerkkka schemes to eliminated competition but I guess its ok on PC but who the hell wants to use a PC now that m1 Macs are hear...simple facts, is cubase better then logic (cracked on Mac that everyone can find online) or is it worth the money? thats Apple for you
@@mikehunt576 🤣
This is EXACTLY the sort of content I love from you, Dom. Super helpful and something I will be able to put to use immediately. Thanks again!
Keep coming back to this tutorial when memory refresh needed. Pure gold King Dom 👑
Great clear explanation. Thanks, Dom. I'd love to see you do a followup explaining a bit more about fixing the tempo of a freely-played recording that doesn't use drums and doesn't have a lot of sharp attacks. Also, a bit more on how the warp tempo markings being moved affect the other markings in the track. And....sorry for all the requests....how about talking about how to back out or proceed if more work is needed on a recording that's already gone through your steps. Your tutorials are a lifesaver!
This is simply a god sent tip. Been looking for that for years but never able to find a simple explanation like this
This is a life saver. Been searching and searching, and finally ur tutorial saved the situation. Top-notch, simple, straightforward and friendly. U are good!
Grazie.
Thank you so much for the support Andrei!
thank you...this is really useful to sort my little timing glitches that others may not hear but you do and they spoil a good track for your own pleasure. Thanks Dom.
Thanks Dom. You're great. My productions have come on so much since I started watching you.
Thank you so much David, highly appreciated and so good to hear that
Woooooonderful❤ Thank u soooo much🎉🎉🎉🎉Was waiting for this so long as no one else would be
able to explain this sort any better!!!!! 😊😊😊
Dom it’s always a pleasure to see your instructional videos. You get to the point fast, extremely understandable and very positive and friendly. Thank you. Chris.
Now that, was a deep Cubase lesson!. I never knew the extent of this tool. It's going to take practice to learn this technique and get really good at it.....but I can already see the possibilities....thank you! 😊🙏
Been using Cubase for nearly 30 years. Never understood this concept until now. Best video I've ever seen on this topic. BRAVO!
Wow! I 've been missing this tempo definition step for years!
LOOOVE this video! Exactly the function I need, as I start every song with a vocal track, where I will snap my fingers for the beat, and lots of breaks and changes in the beat .
Getting into Cubase again after many years. Getting ready to continue production on some multi track projects that were recorded on 2” analog tape with no click and then digitized. I want to keep the feel of the original projects. This video just saved me a lot of time. Thank you.
Such an excellent video. I was watching along in parallel as I was doing this process in my own project. Thanks so much for your body of work.
Thank you for the support ❤️❤️❤️
You & Chris Selim are the gurus of Cubase. We always learn something valuable from your channels. Thank you :)
I use this feature in Cubase all the time. Took forever to figure it out on my own. Love your vids, Dom. I always learn something important.
Love your professional and clear instructions. You not only help me to solve my issues but help me learn the software. Keep up great work !
Thanks for the magic trick at 11:45. This helps me a lot with a bunch of drumtracks where the tempo is all over the place.
Thank you so much for creating this. Began working on orchestral midi mock ups and this is critical information to make these tempo changes work. Subscribed!
Brilliant. Thank God we have you! 🤗
Loved this video Dom, I'm just about to start doing some live recording sessions with a band so this couldn't have come at a better time. What a cool concept!
This is extremely helpful thanks Dom !🤩🙌
its every so years i look up the amazing videos of Don & Co to find how to do this. its in the manual, but its just to difficult to find out if you forgot or dont know. Big big thanks Don you rock and saved me SO much time.
i was f*****n around for weeks tryina figure this "set definition" out. Thank You So Much!
Phantastic! did'nt knew this combination of time grid and time warp. Thank you so much for this!
Thanks! Beautifully explained, so helpful...Love your videos
Thank you so much for the support Andy!
Thanks, Dom! Others have correctly commented on how useful this tutorial has been. My observation is that the tune you used to demo tempo mapping was a surprise and not what I expected. I was wondering if you had been listening to Jeff Beck a bit more since his passing. Your tune reminded me a Jeff Beck Group era music. Anyway, keep up the great and practical content. Really useful to me. Thanks again.
thanks you. there are many videos about it, but that's the best one i've come across. i'm about to have to fix drum tracks on my upcoming album, and i was becoming very anxious about it. this saves me.
I watched countless videos to see how to do this - this is the first one that explained it to me and it worked! Thanks Dom!
Thanks for the video Dom! I tried this method with a project where the audio was not recorded to a click, and in addition some of the audio tracks did not start right at the beginning of the piece but part way through. Those tracks went out of alignment with the others as soon as I activated the Tempo track to begin aligning the grid to the audio. I found the way to prevent this was to set all audio tracks’ time base to Linear rather than Musical mode before activating the Tempo track. That way all the audio tracks will stay aligned with each other, and you can then proceed with the rest of Dom's excellent advice!
I have the same problem. Thanks for the solution!
There's no better way of explaining this ... Super job Dom.. Was really very helpful .. Thank you very much !!!
Wow. My band just recorded a song without a click, and I was looking for a good way to map the tempo.
Thanks, Dom!
Thank you!
I didn't expect that result from those functions. Fantastic
Thanks, I'm really learning a lot from your videos.
Thank you so much Dean ❤️
I wish I knew this before my last uni project, it was exactly! Thanks again for the constant wisdom
Thanks for the time spent, it's really appreciated Dom. I have tracks from years ago recorded on a Tascam 688 and as a midi sync from the Tascam is only possible with a midizer , this seems an ideal solution ... albeit very time consuming ... I ain't as fast as you mate LOL ...Thanks again.🤜
I can't believe how much time I've wasted over the last few years doing this manually using tempo ramping and manual audio warp snapping. This is a godsend. Thank you so much!
Real nice explained! Thanks Dom! ... Now here is a question.. would possible to do the opposite? I have a clean and steady disco rhythm project totally on point. How can I use a humanized played Steve Gadd drum beat and take this "humanized rhythm" onto my clean disco project??? How can we do this?!
I reviewed this video 4 months later to remember how to do this process. Great, fantastic. Thanks again.
OMG Dom I struggled for 40 min trying to figure out what I was doing wrong watching this video about 20 times and couldn't get it to behave like it was in the video lol Then realise I had musical mode activated in the main window lol Boom now all is great and your video makes complete sense.. Well done Dom great content as always.
Very useful info always. Thank you, Dom. Definitely one of the best YT channels, especially for Cubase users!
Thank you so much Dom. It was exactly what I need in my current project !
At the time you apply the magic advanced trick I’m used to “render in place” all tracks and continue with the newly rendered tracks. This I do because I didn’t know of the magic trick you described. Another thing learned. Thanks Dom!
Thank you I cannot tell you how I appreciate this
I have spent hours trying to normalize tempo
This is what I was looking for such a long time. A struggle explained to easyness. THANK YOU!
Cheers Dom, love your videos you have helped me no end with my Cubase usage! Thank you
You have really saved me so much effort with this. This earns a subscribe, and a deep dive into your other content. Thanks!
Genius! Struggled with this for years- thank you!
I remember “correcting” the timing of multiple tracks only to find it sounded like a robotic machine, the tempo detection and warp tools in Cubase are my best friends for life. Thanks for the detailed explanation on how to properly use these functions.
I haven't done this in a while, but I recall it being even easier just tapping out a MIDI file, record a MIDI file where you're tapping the tempo, and then create a tempo map based on that MIDI file. This way you can perform the part. Then tweak the part. Then make the tempo map.
THX for your great videos ! 👍
You’re welcome - thanks so much ❤️❤️❤️
Tempo mapping can be a sobering job, more time than is worth it to rescue a bad take. You did a great job pointing out the less than obvious steps of the procedure. I hope no one walks away from this thinking “hey, I can fix anything!” Done creatively, mapping is like manna from heaven. Done forensically, it’s a total drag.
That’s what I said in the end of the video ❤️
@@DomSigalas Oops! You caught me.
Well said. It's a chore for sure, but luckily, it's also pretty simple. Took me over an hour to fully fix up my drums, despite the simplicity of the process. BUT! Now I can freely adjust the song's tempo, sync MIDI and all the other fun stuff. So for me, it's well worth the effort, especially since I travel to record the drums and can't do more takes.
I was always confused on how to use the tempo track…finally I can use it for creating mix tape remixes. Thanks so much for making this video Dom!
Unbelievable! You make it look so easy and I didn't even know it was possible after 10 years of using Cubase.
Glad I could help!
God bless you this is exactly what I needed! Using Tempo detection, my project kept getting messed up while cutting and pasting. The only thing missing is to make sure MUSICAL MODE is OFF otherwise it won't work, this was my issue getting it working.
This technique is so practical, thank you very much, looking forward to more videos from you
Wow ! Thank you for that ! I realize that I was not necessarily doing it the right way.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you so much
I did'nt know of this feature in Cubase... i have been using it since Cubase SX 3, WOW! Thank you Dom!
Really useful video, I had not considered using a DAW to fix small tempo slippages in a track I want to DJ with. Cheers.
I have no words to explain how wonderful are your explanations, including this !!! ... and also Cubase is gold. It is not possible teach as well as you teach the greatness of Cubase. Thanks again.
THANKS! Always wondered about this, never used it. Now I layerd 2 different songs with individual - no click recorded Tempo- on top of each other for a mashup
Thank you, this is for me the most valuable video about tempo mapping in Cubase.
Fantastic video, so well explained and very useful. Thanks Dom
Awesome video, thanks!
You do it so nicely explained Dom, it´s so good watching your videos!
Upvote for the T-shirt already, but the explanation was also top notch. Thanks mate!
very very and very usefull thing. I've been working on Master of Puppets cover, and discovered that whole track almost every bit has a different tempo, and also that verse riff that is broken.... When I used this thing, I was able to recreate cover that has perfect original feeling and it is amazing!
Another great video Dom, thanks a million. I realised that you have to change to ”adapt to Zoom” from default ”use quantize” otherwise you might not be able to snap to the actual beat with the time warp tool.
Also dont feel you deserved to be challenged. You've provided the tools for people to challenge themselves. Excellent work here, Thank you.
Thank you once more! Challenged about what ? :)
Too cool! Thanks!!😊
Superb tutorial. Thanks for sharing!
Wow, I didn't know you can bake the Warp Grid into audio, that's really cool! I'll definitely keep this technique in mind!
Those Videos are so exciting stuff. Thanks a lot, Dom. You’re the man
Thank You Dom 🙏 Tempo Detect is an amazing feature. I use it a lot these days. It’s amazing how close Cubase works when doing it. I usually doesn’t move any hit points at all. If there are any, you can fix them later. And after you done the Advanced thing, you hide that tempo track, if you need it for later. If you need a tempo track you do a new one.
Thank you 🙏 Always such super cool tutorials 🗽
Thanks for the vidéo. I used this technique recently on 4 recordings. But I think there is an important limitation not mentioned when you apply a fix tempo on all tracks: even if algorithms are better and better, the audio artefacts due to stretching are quite audible and not compatible with a "pro" sound. Even when subtle on bass for example, you can feel it may lack of energy suddenly. In my case I chose to keep a loose tempo and rather quantize the drum (slicing, no stretching). Then I sliced the vocals, aligned them and corrected some notes of the bass. Not perfect but definitely better than stretching artefacts.
However, days ago I saw a video about artefacts in musical mode that can be due to the "live" application of the stretching and can be removed by a cubase function that kinda render it. Not sure if would help or not as in the example artefacts were clicks. Artefacts I had were more like digital noise you may hear sometimes with streamed audio and a poor conection.
yeah, can ruin transients too. for smoother audio like vocals it can sound okay for small adjustments. problem with slicing instead of stretching is you can end up with gaps in the audio, so depending on what else is going on at the time, might sound artificial too. you can sometimes fix that by cutting and pasting tails but that's laborious to say the least.
Thank you my friend 🧡
Very well explained Don. Top stuff mate. Love your work. Cheers Cam Giles
Love your T-Shirt. It reminds me of the '80s when I had a commodore 64 and then bought Amiga... really miss these days.
I’ve was looking for how to do this, as I currently have a project that requires it. Very helpful and well explained. Thank you!
You'd be surprised how many pro composers don't know about setting the audio definition. Great video. I completely changed my workflow coz I couldn't work with this technique once tempo changes had to be made
Thanks
Thank you, finally a clear and effective method explained well.
Huge thanks for the advice! I've tried this technique in Studio One and it totally worked! You just need to create a point on the Tempo track and than press Ctrl and click on this point. Thin line with the new grid location will show up, and you just need to align it with the transient. You're awesome, thanks again for sharing it!
How do you create the tempo map?
@@officialWWM just open the tempo track (it's in the editor, up right). little clock icon. you can use all you regular editing tools with it
@@6oundStudio awesome. Thank you!
Yes, i think i tried that trick before, warping the midi!! Love it
wow, that was amazing, thank you very much Dom! i always bounced to tracks to embedd the tempo, didnt knew about that there is feature that would do this alone :-)
Dom, You're the best Cubase coach hands down! Thanks again
Really informative and useful, thanks so much Dom!!
I've just saved this video for future reference. Very helpful. Thank you!
WOW.. just WOW.. thanks Brother Dom!!!
Thank you brother. Very well done. There are other great videos on this subject, but I think you have created the absolute best one.
Thank you so much for this I was about to have a breakdown. This totally solved my problem.
Danke!
Another gem, Dom! Thanks 🙏
Excellent overview. It is a deep topic. When I have asked Cubase to calculate the tempo atutomatically, I have had to go in and delete or add tempo markings. It is probaly faster to do it from scratch as you have done here.
In the case of a bass part not in time: it is possible to extract the groove from the drums and apply that to the bass part. It won't be perfect but it will save some steps. Bravo.
As usual Dom's excellent explanation does not disappoint: it matches the boldness of the video's title. I knew of several ways to do this but this is the first time I'm seeing this specific procedure. This way will work best for my needs. Thanks for sharing your gifts, Dom!