Slowing down tempo of wav file

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Howdy folks,

I have imported a wav file that I am using as a drum loop. It was a free sample wav file from a company that sells CDs of drum patterns.

I'm using Cubase LE and want to be able to slow down the tempo (bpm) of that imported track. I tried changing the temp on the floating Transport Panel, but that did not alter the tempo of this file.

Anyone know how to change the drum tempo?

Thanks to anyone who can help me with this.
 
I've never done this before, but I think you have to use some kind of hitpoint editor. You'll have to break the wav file up into each hit/stroke/etc. Then you can change the tempo. I don't know how to do it and I am not sure you will be able to do it in Cubase LE. I know the full versions of Cubase are capable of this.

Maybe someone else will provide more info. But until then, you might try doing a search on hitpoint editing. Sorry i couldn't be more useful.

Cheers,
 
Whenever I need to do something like this, I just set the project tempo to what I need it to be, then time-stretch the sample to the appropriate length by setting the left and right locators to the number of bars the sample is...or should be rather, and then clicking "Set to locator range" in the time-stretch utility.

Wow, I know there's a less-complicated way to say that, but I don't know what it is. Hope that helps!
 
Time compression/(expansion) is what you want to use.
shortcut for it is pushing "1" until you see a little clock logo for your selector. Then simply drag the audio file to the size you want it to be.

Eck
 
I usually just time stretch it, and theres the preview option, so u can play around with it til u get the speed u want, but obviously, if you're wanting a specific bpm then it'd be handy to have a metronome if u do it that way.
 
vanillajack said:
I usually just time stretch it, and theres the preview option, so u can play around with it til u get the speed u want, but obviously, if you're wanting a specific bpm then it'd be handy to have a metronome if u do it that way.
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the time expander can adjust it to the specific bpm
 
If you need to slow down the tempo a lot, then time-stretch might sound funny. The problem is, if you use hitpoints, then you'll get silence between the slices. For this kind of stuff, I highly recommend ReCycle as it has a tool to elongate the tails of the hits in a more artefact free manner.
 
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