Cubase SX - Midi features (help me)

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Posted by Low Profile on Apr-20-2005 23:47:

Cubase SX - Midi features (help me)

Sometimes when I make a beat in Cubase I think: "this is too slow, I want it twice as fast". But I'm kinda tired of always deleting the beat and making it again, but this time with, for example, 1/32 notes instead of 1/16 (making it twice as fast)..

Isn't there a feature in Cubase hidden somwhere that allows you to select a piece of midi notes (1 beat or something like that) and stretch it/set a new tempo...

Hell, they have it in Reason (you just select "stretch" or sumthin' (can't remember) and then it asks you for a new speed in percentages. Enter 50% and it's twice as fast as the original, enter 200% and it's twice longer)

Is this possible in Cubase?? (btw. I'm using SX 2)

Posted by MessiahProject on Apr-21-2005 08:54:

Dont quite understand what you mean -
Do you mean you want to speed up the WHOLE track, or just a section of it - ie,1 or 2 bars within your track, or just tweak a sample to fit with the tempo of your track?

Il try my best though -
1) To speed up your whole track simply click over the tempo on the right side of the transport bar and set it to the tempo you want.

2)To speed up just a few bars (incase you want to increase the tempo half way through) goto the Project tab> then Tempo Track> This allows you to draw a line where you want to increase your tempo in either a ramp (gradual increase) or jump (not very Dj friendly!!)

3)Or select the midi part you want to speed up and right click it, go down to process, then Time stretch - this allows you to either compress or expand your midi part to how you want it.

Hope this helps - if not, try and put down a more detailed explanation of what you want and Ill try again!!

MP

Posted by No Left Turn on Apr-21-2005 08:58:

1. highlight whatever notes you want to "stretch"

2. under the MIDI menu, select Logical Presets

3. choose Standard Set 1, and you'll see "double tempo" and "half tempo" in the middle of the menu

Posted by Low Profile on Apr-21-2005 12:11:

Thanks, that doube tempo / half tempo was just what I was looking for

Posted by h.vox on Apr-21-2005 15:09:

Re: Cubase SX - Midi features (help me)

quote:
Originally posted by Low Profile
Sometimes when I make a beat in Cubase I think: "this is too slow, I want it twice as fast". But I'm kinda tired of always deleting the beat and making it again, but this time with, for example, 1/32 notes instead of 1/16 (making it twice as fast)..

Isn't there a feature in Cubase hidden somwhere that allows you to select a piece of midi notes (1 beat or something like that) and stretch it/set a new tempo...

Hell, they have it in Reason (you just select "stretch" or sumthin' (can't remember) and then it asks you for a new speed in percentages. Enter 50% and it's twice as fast as the original, enter 200% and it's twice longer)

Is this possible in Cubase?? (btw. I'm using SX 2)

if you press key '1' you will select the select tool (the arrow with which you can select and move parts around). ok. now press it again, and the icon changes. press '1' again, and you will see that the icon of the arrow just got a clock icon drawn by it. cool. now select the wanted part, and drag its left or right part where you want it. this is the timestretching feature which works both for midi and audio parts. as you can see, this feature is not exactly hidden

Posted by wink on Apr-21-2005 18:05:

Hey I've got a similar question about this sort of thing. In Fruity with chords drawn out your able to turn them into 16th notes and 32 notes by pressing ctrl-u, chopping the chords up creating an arpeggio.. is it possible to do this in cubase?

Posted by TVG on Apr-22-2005 03:13:

I have another question

If I have an audio loop at a certain tempo, if I time stretch it to be say, 4 bars long, will it be beatmatched?

Posted by No Left Turn on Apr-22-2005 03:51:

^^ it should be, yes.