This may be a very basic question but search as I might I haven't found the answer. I have imported tracks exported from another DAW into a Waveform project and started resurrecting it. I've realised that I stupidly didn't set the tempo of the Waveform project to the previous projects tempo. All I have is audio tracks (with some edits) however I may utilise some tempo affects and possibly arpeggiated synth etc.
My problem is that when I change the tempo Waveform moves my clips. I guess this is the correct action in a normal situation however I want my clips to stay in place and just have the tempo altered. Is there a way to do this?
Many thanks in advance for any help.
Changing Tempo Without Moving Clips
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- KVRAF
- 2417 posts since 17 Jun, 2003
Yes. First right click the bar at the top, and change the view from Show Bars/Beats to Show Seconds/Milliseconds.
Then select all your audio clips, and in the properties panel, look for the toggle box that says "Remap on tempo change". Turn that off (it's on by default)
Change your tempo. The audio stays in the same place (in terms of timing, relative to each other). In terms of which bar line they start and stop at, that will have altered, because you've changed the tempo, so bar divisions happen at different times.
You probably now want to change back to Show Bars/Beats and then (with all the clips still selected), drag the audio clip that happens first to be in line with a bar division (bar 2 or 3, or whatever. Just generally avoid starting on bar 1, beat one, in any daw). The other clips should sort themselves out, in a useful way.
Then select all your audio clips, and in the properties panel, look for the toggle box that says "Remap on tempo change". Turn that off (it's on by default)
Change your tempo. The audio stays in the same place (in terms of timing, relative to each other). In terms of which bar line they start and stop at, that will have altered, because you've changed the tempo, so bar divisions happen at different times.
You probably now want to change back to Show Bars/Beats and then (with all the clips still selected), drag the audio clip that happens first to be in line with a bar division (bar 2 or 3, or whatever. Just generally avoid starting on bar 1, beat one, in any daw). The other clips should sort themselves out, in a useful way.
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