Hi Folks

Greetings. I see that this is a new forum. That's pretty kweeol. I havea question. I recently recorded a song at church with a choir. I used the drums on a Yamaha Clavinova for timing and I played the piano accompanying the singers. The song was recorded on CD. I am tryng to import this wave file into Power Tracks and line it up with the Metronome. I am thinking, I used the drums on the clavinova so he timing should be pretty straight. The tempo the song was recorded at was 75. Anyways, in Power Tracks, I am having a hard time making the wave file sync up to the metronome. Any tips on how I can work with audio or any wave file like this? To Line it up, timing wise in software? I also have Cubase Le and cakewalk Sonar 4.

Any advice for me, y'all?

Thanks

Two different issues, with two different solves:

If you can set the metronome but it is just not hitting on the beats of the file, otherwise meeting tempo, then the answer is to time-shift the audio file slightly to the right until it does. This can be done using the Audio Editor window, highlight the entire file and hold down the ctrl key while dragging with the mouse to the right a wee bit. Trial and error will make it hit for you.

If, on the other hand, the PT metronome is timing evenly but the audio file appears to be *wandering* -- that could be due to the timing clock in the device used to record the audio and might prove to be problematic to fix without a LOT of temp-mapping within PT, something I don't recommend for moving the tempo to match the performance just isn't the same thing at all, even though many attempt it.

TIP:

When confronted with an audio file all by itself and no click, I sometimes find it easier to first record my own audio click track. Arm a new track, then either use a microphone and a pencil to tap lightly on the beats, or like I do a lot, set up the Midi Keyboard to the Drum channel, pick a drumkit and find a key and note that makes a percussion sound you can live with for the click, like maybe the stick tap, then play back the original track while manually tapping the click and recording that to the new track.

This will yield a single track with nothing but the audio clicks on it, you can then easily line up that to the Midi Metronome in PT by time-shifting. When you find the correct number of midi ticks to shift the homemade metronome click track, simply shift the original audio track the same number of ticks in the same direction. Mute the manually made click track and keep it just in case for later.


--Mac

Use the ACW in PT 12 to set tempo maps to match audio files. Works amazingly well.