Changing project timing

[Albertm]

I laid three audio guitar/bass tracks down and realized metronome 110 was too slow. Does anyone know a trick to kick it up a few notches without redoing tracks? I tried just pushing the metronome to 116 but that didnt do anything. Tried screwing with View/Tempo. No go either. Using Sonar Producer.

[Jaybee]

I'm not sure you can do this in Sonar with audio tracks. That's why I always start with midi tracks where you can control things like tempo. After I get the midi where I want it I either bounce it to a audio track or send it to a soft synth.

[Albertm]

Bummer, guess I could use the practice.....I actually have no midi on this one to test tempo, but thats a good idea.

[Synkrotron]

Did you play to a click at 110 BPM an now wish to stretch the audio?

This can be a pain and I've not had much success myself. For some reason the time stretch function never works properly fo me.

But is I suss it out I'll let you know.


andy

[DM1]

Albertm, it can be done, though anything more than 2 or 3 BPM will sound dodgy.

Instructions for Sonar 4PE:
- Make sure each track contains only one audio clip. If you have comp'd tracks, select all the clips on those tracks and use the bounce-to-clip option to get a single clip.
- For each track: Select the clip properties (either right-click, or hit alt-enter on the clip.) Go to the second tab, Groove-Clips, and turn on the "Stretch to Project Tempo" checkbox. (You have to say "yes" to the "make clip memory-resident?" question.) Set the "Original Tempo" to (in your case) 110 BPM.
- Increase the project's tempo by the desired amount. The clips wil now time-stretch to match the new tempo.

As I said, though, anything more than 3 BPM will be pretty obvious.

(FWIW, I have much better results using Sound Forge for time stretching. You can stretch based on BPM, and SF has a few different algorithms, so you can choose the method that works best with your material.)

[Albertm]

Yea, I want to make it 120. Thanks for the instructions though. I will keep for when it needs smaller adjustments.