JCody
It didn't use to work that way for me.
It was almost certainly coincidence due to SONAR's tempo matching that of the audio being imported. I've been using SONAR to create loops for 17 years, and the loops always follow SONAR's tempo.
So I guess that my workflow would have to include detecting the tempo of the audio I import? What if the song has varying tempos? I wish it were simpler. Anyway, thanks Craig for your helping with this.
There are several ways to detect tempo. I wrote an "
old school" but reliable way to do this with X3, but the principles are the same.
AudioSnap is another way to determine tempo from a clip, but you'll need audio with fairly defined transients.
The most space-age and wonderful way to do this, which also takes into account varying tempos, is the
tempo detection feature that was added in the 2016.03 update. Its ability to create a tempo map from existing audio is almost magical.