Posted on May 15, 2003 05:54 pm
fortymile
Member Since: Jan 18, 2003
think i may need a bit of help with this...
i want to use some acid drum loops in this danzig cover song i'm doing right now in cubase sx (i'm doing it to learn the ins and outs of cubase and of mixing, without worrying about whether the song is any good or not). anyway, i have to take some loops that are at other tempos and bring them down (or up) to the tempo i need...about 121. i know vaguely that the process for this is that you have to get the program to count the beats in the loop and then calculate from that the BPM and then somehow tell it to raise or lower the BPM. unfortunately, i dont know how to do this.
i messed around with the beat calculator the other day. my experiment was to try to bring a drum track i did myself into sync with the drums in the danzig track. i couldnt get it to be exact. in fact it was quite off. either the song itself has a slowly ranging meter (drummers are only human) or else i didnt set the beat calculator exactly "right." probably, its a little bit of both. but if cubase's beat calculator is one of the tools you use to expand the tempo of a drum loop, then the other thing i need to know (which was unclear in the help files and book) is how to highlight the file so that it falls directly, exactly on the beat and therefore calculates accurately. in cool edit, there's a function, if i remember right, called 'find beats,' which i guess looks for transients or something. maybe i missed it here. maybe cubase has it. anyway...
sorry if i'm asking too many questions here that i should be able to figure out myself. by coming to you guys before tinkering, i guess i'm trying to save myself the frustration of failure. if youre impatient like i can be, too many screw ups can turn you off to digital audio altogether or make you conclude wrongly that your software is too hard to use and you should go back to your simple 8-track. i think i'm looking for a certain critical mass of understanding, beyond which i'll start to be more comfortable with all of this. plus i just much prefer interacting here than with a book and it seems like you guys like to answer.
thanks!
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