Hi Charlie,

I hope Tom doesn't mind me hijacking his post, but he may find the same query as me whilst trying to follow your detailed instruction. I have started a new file by opening a .wav file as you recommend. It's the next bit I query :


"With the cursor placed at the first beat, Rt Click with your mouse to open a drop down menu. From the drop down menu, select the last choice, mark this point as bar 1 of the song (e.g. for imported audio with long lead in)and press Enter".


When I right click in the audio window at the point of the 1st beat, the drop down window I get offers "cut/copy/paste". I don't get what you suggest :


"From the drop down menu, select the last choice, mark this point as bar 1 of the song (e.g. for imported audio with long lead in)".


As a result, I don't get to where you seem to get to, which is placing Beat 1 at Bar 1. Where are you right clicking ?? Would you kindly re-visit.

The only way I get Beat 1 to line up with Bar 1 is to place a marker at the right place on the wave form and then place a marker for the start of Bar 2. But when I press AutoMarker, I end up with a tempo different to what I have carefully assessed it should be
whilst playing the audio file against my Korg electronic metronome. The song happens to be Elvis doing "A Fool Such As I", which to my metronome is at 129 BPM. There is a 3-grace note lead up to the start of the 1st bar. The rest of the auto-markers fall out of
sync with the audio and if I try to adjust them, I end up where Tom is ending up - with wildly varying tempo at each bar.

It is fully accepted that back in the day, artists did not always perform to a metronome, resulting in some pulling/pushing through the song, but not drastically.

I hope you have time and willingness to come back on this. Many thanks.

And to Tom - again my apologies for hi-jacking your post, but I came across it whilst searching for answers to the problems you posed. Does Charlie's right clicking give you his drop down window or mine ??


Cheers

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