Help... My song has lost its original tempo

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ZoeZoe
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Help... My song has lost its original tempo

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I am so frustrated. Please help.

I have recorded a song with 14 tracks. I did not use the click on MTS- I used a metronome online. After recording all the tracks and doing a bunch of mixing I thought it wise to add a click to the track using the MTS "click track." The MTS click never lined up with the tempo of the online metronome, so I changed the tempo to try and reorder the midi clicks of the whole song. I chose both midi and audio tracks. I did that several times with slight tempo variations hoping that the beats of the drum would line up with the MTS "Clicks" track. Finally, I tried to use the option that enables MTS to use an audio track as the source tempo. I used an track that was consistent, but not perfect. Every measure of the entire midi click track had varying tempos. I tried "tap tempo" which also did not change everything. I was stumped.

I decided to delete the "Clicks" midi track from the song. That was a massive error. I got distracted and had to leave the computer. When I got back I pressed play to listen to the song and it was playing at half speed. :shock: Both Autosave backups were too recent and the last version saved was prior to some massive editing.

How do I get my tracks back to the original speed that they were recorded in?
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Re: Help... My song has lost its original tempo

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ZoeZoe wrote: Tue Nov 05, 2024 3:59 pmI used a metronome online.
Audio or MIDI?
ZoeZoe wrote: Tue Nov 05, 2024 3:59 pmHow do I get my tracks back to the original speed that they were recorded in?
Does the song still sound OK? In other words: is the problem that the bar lines don't line up with the sound?


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ZoeZoe
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Re: Help... My song has lost its original tempo

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I simply listened to the metronome online while recording the song.
https://www.metronomeonline.com/

When I added the click after recording 14 more tracks, my entire song sounded fine. Until I deleted the Midi "Clicks" track. Then when I tried to play it the entire song (every track) is playing at about 50% speed. I only added the click, so that we could include a drummer, or any other artist that may find it useful.

Zoe
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Re: Help... My song has lost its original tempo

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Do the audio tracks sound one octave lower now? In that case the audio playback device sample rate has changed I think.


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ZoeZoe
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Re: Help... My song has lost its original tempo

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No, they sound like someone slowed the playback speed down significantly... Literally sounds like half the normal speed and the song length is 30 to 40% longer.
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Re: Help... My song has lost its original tempo

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Support wrote: Tue Nov 05, 2024 6:35 pm Do the audio tracks sound one octave lower now? In that case the audio playback device sample rate has changed I think.


Giel Bremmers
As a note, the pitch seems to still be correct.
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Re: Help... My song has lost its original tempo

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OK, so I think this is what happened:

- You tapped a new tempo for the BPM box.
- You were asked "Change the tempo of audio track as well?", and chose "Yes, do both audio and MIDI tracks".
- Then at some point you saved the song.

A simple fix would be to type a 30..40% higher value in the BPM box. The audio tracks have now been time-stretched multiple times, so sound quality will have suffered a bit.

Alternatively you can create a new song, and import the audio files from the old song in it. The original recordings should still be there, but it can be a bit of a mess if you did lots of partial recordings like punch-in.


Giel Bremmers
ZoeZoe
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Re: Help... My song has lost its original tempo

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I have tried to "add click track" and then change the tempo, but it does not change the speed of the song. There is no time stretching occuring when I just change the BPM value. The only thing that changes is the midi beat map.
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Re: Help... My song has lost its original tempo

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I can show you if you can do a zoom call.

Zoe
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Re: Help... My song has lost its original tempo

Post by Support »

Sorry, I meant the BPM box in the main screen. You've found the "Extract tempo from track" there I think.

There's also the Tempo Editor of course, that would work too. See https://multitrackstudio.com/tempo.php


Giel Bremmers
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