To emphasize the importance of doing a "save as" backup of your work, and also to point out a potential bug, I offer the following tale: I'm currently doing some drum program for a guy in VA. I'm working from CD's he mailed me, and I'm using Doggiebox to fill in drums on audio tracks that came off the CD's . I'm using Cubase to put things together and check my programming. The song I'm working on is just over three minutes long, and I had about three or four hours into the programming. For no reason at all, I played with the "Master Tempo" slider. I set it back to 100% then did a save. When I exported a wav file to check the patterns in Cubase, I noticed an immediate problem with Tempo. I went back to DB, and saw that the slider still read 100%. There is no chance that I exported while the slider said anything other than 100%. I was able to open a backup song file, then copy the changed patterns from my (now bad) song file into it. Problem solved. I think there may be something wrong with the way the slider works. I'd advise "hands off" unless you know what you may end up with. Do a backup.
On 30 6 2003 at 6:40 pm -0400, Mike Carlyle wrote:
The song I'm working on is just over three minutes long, and I had about three or four hours into the programming. For no reason at all, I played with the "Master Tempo" slider. I set it back to 100% then did a save.
When I exported a wav file to check the patterns in Cubase, I noticed an immediate problem with Tempo. I went back to DB, and saw that the slider still read 100%. There is no chance that I exported while the slider said anything other than 100%.
Interesting... As I play with the slider, I find there are about two "notches" where the display will read 100%. In other words, since the slider is more than 100 pixels wide altogether, there are some spots which represent a fractional amount of one per cent (i.e. there is not a 1-to-1 mapping between pixels and percentage). Is it possible that you put the slider back to an almost-but-not-quite 100% setting? Incidentally, you can option-click on the slider to return it to 100%. Some brief testing here with a short song shows no such variance in the total output duration after screwing around with the slider, but I will do some more detailed testing in case there is in fact some subtle problem with the slider. -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca
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