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2011/05/05 21:46:13 (permalink)

Quick tempo question

I have finished recording a whole song with several tracks, but I have since decided that I want to re-do the song with a faster tempo. I was going to just re-record the whole thing again with the new tempo, but I am wondering if there is an easy way to change what I've done so far with Sonar?

A search suggested Audio Snap, but that looks complicated. I'm just wondering if there is an easy way to speed up my whole song? I'm thinking like export it down to a single wav, and then just speed up the wav, hopefully with out changing the pitch?

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    daveny5
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    Re:Quick tempo question 2011/05/05 23:22:22 (permalink) ☄ Helpful
    You have to use audiosnap. If you speed up the WAV, the pitch will rise. 

    The best solution is to re-do the tracks. 

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    Re:Quick tempo question 2011/05/05 23:59:15 (permalink) ☄ Helpful
    You could try shortening each recorded audio clip proportionally to fit the project, using Cakewalk Time-Stretch audio effect:

    Select clip, Process menu > AudioFx > Cakewalk > Time/Pitch Stretch 2

    Don't expect perfect results though.

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    Re:Quick tempo question 2011/05/06 14:59:26 (permalink)
    Thank you both. I remember doing that time/pitch stretch in the past but I couldn't remember what it was. Thanks! I think for this seeing as it's not a complicated song, I'll just re-make it. But in the future I'm going to learn how to use audio snap. Looks powerful.
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    Re:Quick tempo question 2012/05/09 23:22:19 (permalink)
    This seems to be gone in X1

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    Re:Quick tempo question 2012/05/10 04:17:11 (permalink)
    What's gone?

    And yes, your best option is to definitely re-record the whole thing.

    I try to avoid this sort of thing by always building up my scratch tracks in Midi first, where you can change the tempo with a couple of mouse clicks.

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    Re:Quick tempo question 2012/05/10 09:39:27 (permalink)
    http://forum.cakewalk.com/fb.ashx?m=2566305 <-- for a recent discussion of several ways to change tempo, including a super easy formula for using audiosnap.
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    Re:Quick tempo question 2012/05/10 10:49:08 (permalink)
    Fastest way is to export it to wav-stereo, then import it to a new project and use "Process>length" (if that exists in X1).

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    Re:Quick tempo question 2012/05/10 11:24:03 (permalink)
    Thread  is from a year ago, A lost X1 user re opened it.

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