MC8 forcing me to use wrong tempo [solved]
Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2020 7:41 am
I have a song which was played to a 105 bpm click track. Here is a snippet of the click track.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f36wt3q2ajt8o ... m.mp3?dl=0
When I start a new project in MC8, I set the tempo to 105 bpm and drag the full click track audio clip in from windows explorer. I get a dialogue suggesting that for the best sound quality, I change the project tempo to match what MC8 thinks is the click's true tempo, i.e. 120 bpm.
If I say no, i.e I just import the file and keep the tempo set at 105 bpm, the audio plays back too slow.
If I say yes, letting MC8 change the tempo to 120 bpm, the audio plays back fine, but when I play MC8's metronome during playback, that's obviously too fast, the audio and metronome definitely don't sync up.
So the price I pay to hear the audio correctly is to surrender to MC8's mistaken tempo clock, which means among other things that none of my tempo-dependent VSTis (arps etc) and FX ( delays) will play in sync; grid-based editing becomes impossible etc.
I don't recall having this problem before.
Is there a way I can override whatever MC8 is doing, i.e. just tell it to believe me when I say the tempo is 105 bpm, and not to stretch the audio in any way? Unless I'm missing something, in trying to be helpful, MC8 is getting it wrong and crippling me.
Grateful for any advice.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f36wt3q2ajt8o ... m.mp3?dl=0
When I start a new project in MC8, I set the tempo to 105 bpm and drag the full click track audio clip in from windows explorer. I get a dialogue suggesting that for the best sound quality, I change the project tempo to match what MC8 thinks is the click's true tempo, i.e. 120 bpm.
If I say no, i.e I just import the file and keep the tempo set at 105 bpm, the audio plays back too slow.
If I say yes, letting MC8 change the tempo to 120 bpm, the audio plays back fine, but when I play MC8's metronome during playback, that's obviously too fast, the audio and metronome definitely don't sync up.
So the price I pay to hear the audio correctly is to surrender to MC8's mistaken tempo clock, which means among other things that none of my tempo-dependent VSTis (arps etc) and FX ( delays) will play in sync; grid-based editing becomes impossible etc.
I don't recall having this problem before.
Is there a way I can override whatever MC8 is doing, i.e. just tell it to believe me when I say the tempo is 105 bpm, and not to stretch the audio in any way? Unless I'm missing something, in trying to be helpful, MC8 is getting it wrong and crippling me.
Grateful for any advice.