Of time and tempo

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AlChuck

AlChuck

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I'm smack in the middle of my first real attempt to score music for a short video using a multitrack sequencer -- SONAR. I first spotted the video, placing markers at points of interest -- beginnings and ends of scenes, and other moments of interest like when someone falls down and hits the ground and that sort of thing. I lock these markers to the SMPTE time. Then I start blocking out sections to write to. I do some calculations to figure out roughly what tempo I want for a bit, and that sort of thing.

What I quickly learned was that if I do not work strictly front to back (L to R on the timeline), I have to realign all my music in the project whenever I add a new cue with a different tempo.

It seemed to me that what I should be able to do is, once I've scored a cue, be able to lock the beginning of a clip with the associated marker. That way, if I adjust the tempo for some cue anywhere upstream, the starting measure/beat of the later clip will be changed so that it still starts at the SMPTE time I originally placed it at, rather than move off this absolute time in response to the tempo change.

Am I correct that there is no way to do this in SONAR? Can you really lock markers but not lock events to the markers? Or am I overlooking something?

Thanks!

-AlChuck
 
Wow, the guy that answers ALL of our questions has one.
 
Aaah gots more than one, lemme tell you... using SONAR like this is not fun, there are all kinds of quirks I am encountering. My favorite has to be the locked SMPTE markers that change, and the occasional time values that don't take (e.g., I type in a marker value of 00:01:25:18, but it becomes 00:01:25:16 when I click OK). And I can't change it by one frame to save my life. Oy! Maybe round-off error? But at 960 PPQ?
 
God I hate those flashing icons

it would be interesting to hear what cakewalk tech support has to say....and I also want to thank all the brave souls who are testing sonar for us wimps....perhaps they will call the next upgrade Sysyphus? in honor of AlChuck....
 
That's Sisyphus, kc... ;)

I plan to try to come up with some steps that reproduce the problems I've seen clearly, and then contact Cake tech support.
 
They're Coming!!!!!!!!

I haven't had to spell that one since the sixties......cakewalk will be showing SONAR in the bay area next week- in San jose 5-16 at gtr. center....might go if i can find a baby sitter!
 
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