The tempo's a little variable but hovers around 88, and measure 10 is 6 beats long. Vocal starts at 3:01:480.
Try this:
- Start by selecting and deleting the lead-in noise up to the first guitar note which is a downbeat.
- Drag the remaining clip back to 1:01:000, and set an initial tempo of 89 (first couple measures are a little fast).
- Insert the meter change to 6 beats at measure 10, and the change back to 4 at measure 11.
- Zoom to where you have just over one measure showing, and start playback without the metronome sounding.
- Listen for the very distinct guitar notes on downbeats.
- Don't bother enabling Audiosnap; just use your ears and eyes to stop the transport and click in the timeline (snap disabled) to set the Now time at each downbeat transient, and use Ctrl-M to open the Set Measure/Beat At Now dialog, telling SONAR what measure and beat (always 1 in this case) that is. Because you've set the initial tempo close to the average, SONAR's guess should always be right, and you can just OK it.
- Sonar will insert tempo changes to make the timeline follow the clip based on what you tell it.
- You don't have to set every measure because the tempo is reasonably stable.
- I ended up setting measures 3, 8, 9, 11, 15, 17, and 18 initially.
- After snapping a couple measures, enable the playback metronome, and make sure it's following the clip. If you mis-identify a transient, you'll hear it, and you can just Ctrl-Z to undo it and try again.
- If you want, you can get the timeline to follow the ritard in that last measure by finding and setting 18:4, 18:4.5 (8th-note "and" between 18:4 and the final beat at 19:01).
If you run into trouble, PM me, and I can e-mail you a snapped copy of the project.
P.S. In case you're on 8.5.3, I just remembered that's the version in which Set Measure/Beat At Now was partially broken, placing tempo changes in the wrong place. It'll still give a serviceable tempo map if you snap measures in order from the beginning, but it's not ideal. This issue was fixed in X1b.
post edited by brundlefly - 2013/12/05 11:50:57