Change project tempo [now with with step-by-step instructions]

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What would be the easiest way to achieve this ?
 
I have owned Cakewalk products since the Pro Audio 8/9 days, but never really used them much, just kept up with the upgrades in case, I do love Dim Pro, Rapture and Z3ta 2 etc which I have as part of Sonar and also individually purchased. Every now and then I take Sonar for a spin, but always find myself going back, now days, and for a long time to Reaper, because of things such as this, which are so easily achieved, but for some reason seem unnecessarily complicated in Sonar.
Another that bugged me was the need to bounce the drum track down to audio, with reaper I would just play my Alesis DM10 Pro kit through BFD or AD, tighten up any loose bits in the midi track, mix, apply effects as required and that's it, no need for extra steps, but with Sonar if I do that and export the final product, there is no drums, A small thing, having to bounce the track, but it all adds up, but I decided well, that's just the way it is and kept on going, still hanging in there, but I do prefer the easier route especially when there is no downside to it.
 
Thanks again

Thanks, I found even in the official Cakewalk help stuff it says that you would have to bounce some soft synths, that's how I found out I had to do it. Do you use BFD ? in your stuff
 
EDIT - I do recall some option that said "What you hear" but I think I used one that was what I had selected or something, but even though I did read in the help file or online help or something the need to bounce some soft synths, the way I did it it did export all other soft synyhs, but not BFD. But anyway my main issue is the ability to change the tempo of the entire song, midi and audio easily as in Reaper with just a click, 90 and enter, I have tried some of the convoluted methods I have found, but I'm not going through that, especially as a couple of the methods I tried didn't achieve the goal, Perhaps user error or my missing something, but when your used to just changing the tempo and it's all done, it makes this seem rather tedious and unnecessary.

No, I'm using BFD2 and/or BFD 3 (Read EDIT above) but that was just a minor issue, I can live with that
 
Thanks

I answered a similar question recently and told how to do it relatively easily with the fit time function, no AudioSnap required. I'll have to look it up. I don't remember it offhand because I don't need this function...I usually know what tempo I want but if I later decide to alter the tempo, I do it to the stereo mix using either the iZotope stretch algorithm if I want to preserve pitch, or Sonar's "varispeed" function for tape-style speed+pitch changes.

Thank you, what iZotope product are you referring to ? I have Alloy2, Ozone 5, and Nectar2 Production suite, which I am guessing would be likely, only just recently got them and not all that familiar as yet.

jih64
Thank you, but unfortunately that doesn't do the trick, the results are, well quite undesirable, everything all over the place. I have tried quite a few things, similar to your suggestion, from forum posts and the online documentation, some involving far more work, but none of them achieve the goal. I think I will give up, and if I do another song with Sonar I'll just make sure the tempo is right at the start. But sometimes that is easier said than done, after listening to the final product a few times, sometimes you get a feeling that it may be 'dragging' a little, and would benefit from a little tempo rise, everything has it's 'sweet spot', and with Reaper, just change the tempo and bob's your uncle.
 
I'll have one more try, then I'll either just export and set it all up in Reaper and do it in there (more work than I really want to do), or just leave it as is, thanks again.

 
Make sure you're setting the average tempo in the audiosnap panel (to the old tempo not new), that will give poor results if you don't do that.
 
Also check that "Auto stretch" is checked in the "Clip follows project" drop down.
 
Remember that a full render will sound better than the online render. I would have thought a few BPM would be okay on most systems though.
 
Also check there's no audio clips or data locked.
 
Of course system power makes a difference but the method I've outlined works fine here with the online render.
 
There's a video on my youtube page that contains something similar but I'm working on a live recording in that so it's audio only but the process is more or less the same if there's MIDI in the project.
 
Find that HERE

As promised:
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3099513
 
Since this question gets asked a lot, I added it to the Tip of the Day thread and included step-by-step instructions with screen shots. This method delivers very high-quality audio results, but is still pretty simple.

It's also how I get 34 second commercials to fit in 30 second slots 

jih64
Magnificent !!!
Thank you very much Mr Anderton, that does the trick extremely well, very happy with that.
 
Thank you to all the others who offered suggestions/help, it is greatly appreciated, seems like a very helpful little community you have here.
 
Thanks all 

 
It's a great community...welcome! I'm glad you found the tip helpful.
 
Frankly, I learn more trying to answer peoples' questions than I do on my own 
 
Oh, and you can call me Craig. "Hey you" has been known to work, too.

I have pretty much every DAW in the universe installed on either my Windows or Mac computers, and could run in a session in any of them and often have. However, I use Sonar as my DAW...there's a reason why.
 
FYI I wrote a book several years ago about a competing sequencer that I'm enough of a gentleman not to mention.  It sold really well and the publisher wanted me to do the same thing with a different DAW, so I said I'd like to do one on Sonar. They asked for the same length, same chapters, same number of screen shots, etc. I finished the book and they were upset because it was considerably shorter than the first book. I said that couldn't be, the contents were exactly the same. 
 
When I put the two books side by side, I noticed that it took consistently fewer steps to do something in Sonar than in the other program. The cumulative effect made the book a lot shorter. I eventually had to pad it out with extra screen shots to hit the target length. I had always felt Sonar was faster than other programs, but this told me why.
 
Of course there's a learning curve but once you "learn your instrument," you'll find you can do pretty much anything with Sonar. And the comping is outstanding - the best there is, IMHO.