Irrational tempo/time: me or the software?

[Anthropod01]

Am I missing something here? I open a previously save sng with some included wav's and find the wav's are playing at a tempo unrelated to the BPm displayed on the N-track status/tool panel (or even the tempo dialog boxes from metronome or change tempo). The Bpm display is reading 95.00 but the song is clearly playing at 120 bpm or so (when I enable the metronome I can hear the rythmic discontinutuity of the slow 95 tick versus the wav's playing back faster).

I might add that I have yet to discern how to simply program some MIDI percussion via piano roll on a MIDI track and get that to sync with the wav tracks recorded previously (voice/guitar). Is the software just flaky/loose or am I missing something here?

When I play tracks back I notice that the initial few beats of the metronome are off tempo (slow) then gradually acquire the tempo programmed (which may account for the inability to sync an inserted MIDI track later?).

Yeah, I am using a crapweasel sound "card" (ESS Masestro in a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop, PIII, 1GHz, UltraDMA HD, 256MB RAM--i.e., sufficient system resources/speed otherwise), but this doesn't seem reasonable behavior of the N-track software.

Appreciate advice/comments (as long as they don't advise spending money that I don't have).

 

[Gidge]

the .wavs are gonna play back at the tempo you recorded them.....you cannot control them via the BPM or metronome......

 

[Anthropod01]

Determining tempo of prev wav

OK, so the wav files are permanently in the tempo/bpm that they were recorded at--reasonable enough, I guess (although I have used voice software that could slow down or speed up wav audio in realtime).

But...couldn't I at least get a properties display of the bpm/tempo of the previously recorded wav file? All I seem to get from the tempo/bpm dialog box or the metronome menus are the current settings of the tempo. If I knew exactly what the wav tempos were I would just set the current bpm/tempo to that.

And, I am sure having a difficult time figuring out how to add a MIDI track and synch it up with the wav tracks. Maybe I should try doing the MIDI percussion track before anything else, then follow it with wav recordings, where I can hear the MIDI track in realtime and synch manually (i.e., by ear).

 

[jollylama]

Forgive me if I misunderstand, but if you click on the temp box it shows the tempo's.

 

[Slackmaster2K]

It shows the MIDI tempo, not the tempo of a wave file.

This is a manual process. You'll know you have the right tempo when everything is at the same tempo

Slackmaster 2000