Cakewalk by Bandlab: Time and Tempo

[@brianoswald2892]

Changing the tempo with audio content was a game changer for me

[@Michael_talks_]

abso-fucking-loutley

[@hoptonmalcolm3479]

Thank you...using cakewalk for years and now just got back with this bandlab version.. forgot how to do this without time stretching...you are a champion in your field..!!!..one love

[@mincentprice1041]

I know this video is old - But Mike to the rescue again! I was driving myself crazy with trying to change the time signature for a 6/8 song. Cheers!!

[@1BrundleFly1]

Three tips to augment Mike's great tutorial here. 1. To allow the transport to run so you can hear the playback metronome in an empty project, be sure to un-check 'Stop at Project End' under Options in the Track View menu. 2. When drawing tempo changes, set the snap resolution to match the smallest timing interval in the music, regardless of the tempo - e.g. an 8th in Mike's drum pattern example would do the trick; having tempo changes in between notes isn't musically necessary, and may cause audio-stretching artifacts or problems with tempo-synced plugins. 3. Before enabling Clip Follows Project in the Audiosnap palette, be sure to open the drop-down to the right of the option and select 'Auto stretch' as the mode. Other options will cause the clip to immediately stretch to fit the current tempo before the tempo is changed which is likely to produce undesirable results.

[@rager-69]

I clicked like when you suggested/reminded but when I saw your reaction at 13:07, I clicked like a few more times (I forget how many).

[@the_musicalfreakshow]

Changing tempo dynamically throught the song was exactly what I wanted to do, and exactly what you helped me understand! Very clear and easy to follow, so thank you very much!

[@leekirkland.musician]

Hey Mike thanks again....hope you are well!

[@CreativeSauce]

Hey Drummer Boy - I am thanks man. Hope you are too!

[@leekirkland.musician]

@@CreativeSauce I am now...just coming through hopefully the tail end of the dreaded covid.

[@dilillo.nicola]

THANK YOU Mike! ;-) Now I finally know how to force audio clips to follow the project's tempo. Please never stop producing such VERY useful videos. Especially for CAKEWALK by Bandlab. Bandlab should engage you as official Cakewalk tutorials guru. Thumbs up!

[@adarshvermamusic]

Thank you so much i was looking for tempo automation....❤️🙏 Love and respect for u❤️

[@8Phoenix8]

I appreciate the last part of the video. Other people dont explain it well and made it look so difficult. :)

[@movingtargetschannel]

i love your accent - and of course the amazing tutorials for cakewalk. every time you sign in i understand you to say, "hi i'm mike and i hope you will." the first thing that pops into my head is, "will what?" anyway, i'm definitely a noobie with recording software, but did plenty of sessions back in the reel to reel 16 track studio days as a musician - the blessed 80s. up to now i've just used audacity. but i'm getting into recording at home now and i thank you for your help.

[@ALiVe.ala11]

My mentor from now on..

[@TitusOates]

You are the "Go To" man for anything to do with Cakewalk. Appreciate your input.

[@andlinux]

Great Cakewalk teacher on youtube ! The moment I heard the song at the end (around @14:00) I thought it was a Dutch song from Clouseau - Zie me graag ;-)

[@thebarf9235]

Thank you! You're the first one I've come across who shows the basic steps for changing the audio's tempo clearly and in the correct order. I was pulling my hair out. Even Cakewalk's knowledge base doesn't clearly show how to do this.

[@YogiMcCaw]

Thanks: the changing audio section was what I needed. A friend wants to make karaoke tracks, and she needs sometimes to change both the key and the tempo of the songs - so the changing audio section was exactly on point. Thanks again, Mike!

[@flevert]

I agree with Brian, changing the tempo with audio opens up new ways to record (more organically). Thanks Mike!

[@juergen_b]

AudioSnap is a great tool. If you have an existing audio recording that was not recorded to a metronome, you can let AudioSnap analyse the tempo of the clip, so your tempo map will follow the audio. If you now add midi instruments, you can use quantize and all other great midi features and it will always fit.

[@Artur_Chernyavsky]

Wow! Actually it was the question I wanted to ask)) Thank you very much!)

[@Belas_Photography]

Alt-A, yet another shortcut I hadn't known about. Thanks Mike.

[@techtonex5680]

Some day I will buy a better PC and use Cakewalk by Bandlab. Till then, I will like Mike's videos and hope that his channel becomes more famous☺️

[@herymusic]

I run Cakewalk on a 4GB RAM potato pc. You can run it too bruh

[@josephjeon804]

holy crap u r so good at explaining things in such a simple way. Im so thankful u exist

[@benbirdsinging3275]

That last tip! If only I had known this before. I completely disassembled my last song, midi and audio, to do something similar .... A good lesson! Thanks!!!!

[@Azfun6]

Thanks Mike....I was struggling with that trying to slow down an ending properly.

[@howtodostuff1244]

Great tutorial, I have been looking for this exact explanation and your attention to detail is second to none. please don't ever change in the way you give us those little insights in between your explanations. there are very few people (youtubers) that have understood the importance of that. Thankfully you have. we are all very grateful.

[@simoncolvex]

Thanks Mike. I'd always rerecorded the audio or put the entire finished mix through a time stretch plugin. This way is much easier.

[@Craigdna]

Excellent presentation. Thank you Mike for all of your hard work and efforts.

[@alexgorelik797]

Hey, Mike, Thank you so much for your great work! You are definitely a gifted teacher! Your lessons are so easy to follow and understand! The way you present material and explain things is simply the best!

[@CristianoFrankSax]

Great vídeo for me, this last about audio snap time change help me so much, thank you.

[@CreativeSauce]

No problem, thank you!

[@ChristianStorb]

Cool! Exactly what i needed. Many Thanks!

[@r.shelley3077]

Your channel is gold. I appreciate your tutorials very much sir.

[@MrBettybologna]

Oh man, I needed this. Thanks for the tutorial!

[@CreativeSauce]

Awesome, thanks!

[@NevilleWorthington]

Hi Mike, I found the last bit particularly interesting where you were speeding up the audio, many thanks Neville

[@jz5005]

Awesome! Thank-you so much. That last tip has been so hard to find the answer for.

[@MrAustinFlowers]

Hey Mike just wanted to say I recently got back into recording and mixing after a really long break. Your videos have been enormously helpful and I really appreciate all the great content.

[@victorfreire3560]

Thank you VERY MUCH for this video. I have been starting my projects from a template I programmed for a particular song and adjusting the tempo was just a nightmare, Cakewalk would change part of the project but not all of it, making the whole process extremely demotivating (and irritating). Very straightforward and helpful explanation, thumbs up! Cheers

[@johncostopoulos7741]

Thanks Mike. EXTREMELY useful!! (as always!!!)

[@CreativeSauce]

My pleasure!

[@reevant2215]

Thanks yet again. Not puppy doodoo at all. Mike, well done as usual.

[@CreativeSauce]

Lol, cheers Tony :)

[@theportablemusician9877]

Thank you Mike! As always your Cakewalk lessons are very helpful. I pretty much use Cakewalk for all the one man band covers here on KZbin and I key in the tempo using the mouse and then use tempo view specially to adjust midi drum tracks to the actual reference track I am intending to cover. Though visually sometimes a little tedious, it gets the job done when the bpm hovers around a particular number in a song rather than being fixed.

[@nolanhill29]

Thank you!!!

[@foggy7577]

thank you so much for the audio clip tip. Ive been trying to find this for so long.

[@JesusRodriguez-dc7of]

You da man, Mike!! Thank you for all your clear instructions, and especially your insistence on using hotkey shortcuts to expedite the creative flow. I've used Cakewalk for 15 years now, and I barely started using the shortcut keys this year lol. Needless to say, my workflow speed has practically quadrupled. I can't imagine using the mouse for every little task anymore lol.... 💯💯💯

[@mikescofield]

The tip at the end about how to change the tempo of the audio was very helpful to me. From your video, I'm assuming that altering the tempo does not alter the pitch. Thanks.

[@elcabanoss3887]

Great tutorial. This is what I was looking for.

[@hellopsp180]

just what i needed for tempo Thanks !

[@mauritsnienhuis]

Thanks so much for all these Cakewalk by Bandlab resources, Mike! I keep resorting to them as I work on musical ideas.

[@rachelsilcox9672]

Another fantastic video mike. Thankyou.

[@ttbhtdsh]

Thank you very much! I am mixing acapella voices. I create for them the midi files but usually, it changes tempo at the end. Extremely useful!

[@voudris451]

Great video Mike, that was very helpful, thank you very much ✌️

[@markymarkp61]

Great tip Mike especially liked the last tip as I've struggled with changing audio tempo..so simple!! Keep up the good work.👍🏻

[@TMCMusic703]

Very help full as always Thx

[@arpeggioblues5924]

Awesome awesome, Mike.. as always.. cheers mate

[@newell2339]

Nice! Just finishing a song where I had to figure this out for myself. Did not know about the tempo view. THAT really would have helped in my project. Also working with some poly-rhythmic sections and it appears at first glance Cakewalk is not set up for that. Discovered (not unexpectedly) most of the free drum plug ins are limited to grooves/rhythms of 4/4 and 6/8, so much hand programming required for "strange" time signatures like 5/4. Thanks for this video and the "time" you took to produce it. Big help!

[@nebukenazar]

Wow very informative video.... Thanks.

[@CreativeSauce]

My pleasure

[@berrykrautboy5368]

Superb job as always...stay safe Mike!

[@stevepickett102]

Thank you so much for all your help. I appreciate the work you put into all your videos.

[@danielcarlheister680]

Had a hard time finding out how to use the new time view in the latest update on cakewalk. It now is available on the arranger tempo track and works the same way automation does for volume etc.

[@joegrint6280]

Useful reminders and some new stuff to me - another good 'un Mike! By coincidence I was just explaining the meaning of rubato to my other half, Fiona, yesterday :-)

[@PM-yz8fx]

Mike you're precious!

[@eternalharvestfarm]

Thank you. I couldn't find tap temp to save my life

[@themadhatter8791]

Most excellent indeed.. just what I need..

[@knboss]

i don't know who hired you 🤣🤣, but you are doing a damn good job!!!!💪💪💪

[@tristanthompson9488]

One small complaint I have with cakewalk is how it displays the tracks when tempo changes mid song are involved, basically it is keeping the visual spacing of the beat markers constant and then scaling the actual time ruler to deal with the tempo change, I much prefer the way pro tools deals with tempo changes by keeping the actual time ruler scale the same throughout and then adjusting the beat marker spacing when a tempo change occurs, that way a after a tempo increase a 1/4 note in midi will look smaller on the screen as well as sounding shorter (as it should if the tempo increases). It also means that in tempo changes in cakewalk the play head will visibly speed up/slow down as they happen which is a bit off putting to me. Its nothing that actually affects me doing anything in cakewalk, just a visual thing I wish would change

[@CreativeSauce]

I know what you mean kinda wish it was optional.

[@timothyreynolds6255]

Very helpful. Enjoyed the whole video.

[@marcoantoniofilho8023]

great and easy! awesome video!

[@aaktarus]

Excellent tutorial, very helpfull to me.

[@aniruddhasitar]

Very nicely explained it helped me thanks

[@1loveMusic2003]

Great vid friend as always Cheers

[@dragon-id5uj]

wow! bless! i was digging around for 'how to automate gradual tempo changes' and coming up blank... yet again you've saved the day! i'd suspect that using the freehand tool while snap is disabled would not result in the big chunky steps? will find out soon enough either way... THANKS!

[@thingmaker67]

Really appreciate all your amazing work! Thank you!

[@roadhousemusic3032]

funny guy. I like who explain this, thanks mike!

[@RogerEverndenMusician]

Your videos on Cakewalk are the best I've come across - clear, straightforward and practical. I learned a lot about tempo here, but I still have a question.... I often record an improvisation without setting up a tempo, so that it can flow freely. But then I like to produce a score. Can I add tempo changes real time so that the score automatically produced in Cakewalk from a midi track accurately maps to the beat? Thanks!

[@August_Hall]

so the explanation is soooo clear and perfect and it worked for one track, but as soon as I used it for the one song I really needed to increase speed by 5 BPM it all went tits up. The vocals went at right speed but not trumpets. Does having multiple clips in the same track affect the way it is processed... i am very new to all of this!

[@bluefox169]

I'm plagued by timing issues in my songs. If I quantize drums so they're better on the grid, they don't match the timing of my audio tracks. This instructional video has given me more ideas. This topic is quite important to me. I typically lay down a guitar track by following a metronome click track, but of course it's not perfectly in time with it. Then, when I lay down a drum track, I try to follow the guitar track, which is not exactly on the metronome beat. Ahhh! People have told me my music is pretty good, except the rhythm is frequently off a little bit.

[@davetrumpet1]

Great video! I am embarrassed to say i have used Cakewalk for years and could never figure out how to change audio tempo.

[@eurdaneta100]

Dear Mike, Thanks very much, I had Years traying to Synchronize wavs and midis, Audio Snap is magical, I had to move the average time and it worked, I noticed that some wavs files do not respond to the AudioSnapt ?, thanks again

[@tomasszoszk6025]

Love your videos Mike!!! Incredibly helpful :) 👍👍

[@JAAHUNGHAAM]

Can we do all these stuffs using MT Power DrumKit 2? I don't have any computer or interface or any gears as of now. But have been saving for sometimes to get myself one. Probably by the end of this year I might have one. So, just checking. And I'm learning a hell lot of stuffs from your channel. Love all your videos. Love from Northeast India🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿

[@MyJ2B]

Thank you for your excellent super-clear videos. Pardon my long preample. "Cut Time" or 2/2 time signature can be confusing at times. There are two beats per bar and a half note has the duration of a full beat. Comparing with 4/4 signature, the quarter note has the duration of a beat. When I load an audio track, and set a tempo 150 bpm in a 2/2 signature, it plays back identically for 4/4 signature at the same 150 bpm. In 2/2, I then see twice the number of bars as expected because it takes double the number of bars to span the same time period. Finally here is my question... In 2/2, the BandLab metronome clicks sound on half-notes as expected at 75 per minute. However, the displayed tempo above the tracks is counting quarter notes at 150 bpm! This seems inconsistent with what I hear and the definition of a "beat". Having said that, the BandLab is advantageous because it iseems consitent with a more familiar 4/4 time signature. Is it a "bug" or a feature. I trust your reply much more than from other KZbinrs who have superficial knowledge and experience but don't recognize their limitations ! Thank you.

[@flemmingjessen2751]

Great video :-) Maybe there has been an update, because the Tempo View is opening at the top as a Tempo Track, and not at the bottom like a Piano Roll + the shortcut ALT + 8 doesn't apply to Audio snap any more.

[@polanve]

Nice job on this!

[@antonmusicals]

Your slang sounds like peaky boys 🔥

[@mikaelschulin4315]

Thanks for an instructive video! When I change meter in my ongoing cakewalk project from 4/4 to 6/8, the change just take place in that particular measure and the meter is back to 4/4 in the subsequent measures. What do I do wrong?

[@ZimmermanTube]

Awesome. But I want to know how do you change tempo gradually from one song to another? For instance i have a medley tracks which are different tempos. How do you gradually slow down or up the tempo in between songs. Please show on audio or wav files. Thanks.

[@martinnicklesstentet500]

Hi great video I’m new to this Could you please send me a link to your video showing how you record a virtual instrument in my case clarinet over a track which I have already imported apologies if it is a very basic question Kind regards

[@auchild433]

I had that error on cakewalk where I messed with the tempo settings I didn't know what was happening to my creation because it was going up and down up then down, I had to change the tempo for each 16 bar that was effected ,struggled for days on cakewalk and today I actually see what I did wrong, been using cakewalk for 3 months now ,thanks Mic

[@brynmorgan12]

Superb, cheers.

[@_3A3C3_]

Mike! I can’t figure out how to set Cakewalk as the master tempo control to an external device via usb midi. Selected the proper sync options in the preferences tab (send midi to sync) but my midi cable usb output isn’t recognized in the currently assigned ports. Apologies if you’ve covered this in a previous vid but I’m stumped!

[@sevenfifteen]

I will have a hard time remembering all the shortcuts from dozens of videos. I hope all those can be found in the menus somewhere, too. Another way to get AudioSnap is to go to the inspector on the left, click on the clips tab and there on AudioSnap. What you could clarify in a future video is how the key setting (the project's key v AudioSnap key) is influencing the audio tracks. I never understood it.

[@robtmohr]

How would you set the time signature and metronome for a song that goes from 4/4 time to cut time and then to 6/8 where you hear 2 beats to each 6/8 measure? I've been enjoying your videos. Thank you.

[@unclebunkum]

Thanks Mike...will this work with vocals?...to sync them to a faster global tempo.

[@junorodrigues]

Thank's to the gold informations.

[@marcobanti788]

Very nice video. I am new on cakewalk and I'm still learnig and these videos are so helpful. Is it possible to record a part of guitar in a slow-tempo and then put the track in a high-tempo. I explain my problem. I have to record a solo that is on 108 bpm but it is very fast. I would like to record it at 80/85 bpm and then put in at 108 bpm. Is it possibile? thank you

[@zulhusnizulkifli6745]

Hi! Great explanation on this video. I have a problem with the metronome. It seems that it cannot be played during playback and recording. I do check the check box in the menu and the settings but still, it doesn't work. I hope you or anybody find this comment and help me with the problem. Thank you!

[@troypfaff9777]

When I hit alt+shift+5 (or select Tempo from Views) it only shows the list on the inspector at the left of the screen. The timeline at the bottom does not come up. Any ideas? EDIT: Noticed the Tempo track does appear up top, underneath the control bar

[@AmartyaPardeshi]

How do you change the tempo for individual tracks? Is it possible in Cakewalk?

[@nojyeloot]

So so useful. Tyvm

[@T-wrecks91]

Dude thanks alot 🙏

[@ellerylynch4356]

in bandlab is there also an option that when you play the music that he is counting so you have an vision of the metronome and a hearing

[@martellmusic713]

Is there a way to click and drag the audio file to change it's tempo> like there is in Vegas?

[@alanwilson2897]

Peter, love your Cakewalk tutorials thanks and hope you stay with it I plan on it. I have a problem I found some old recordings of my late Father recorded 20 or 30 years ago. He was playing solo. I wanted to play with him again so I set it all up in audio with cakewalk. It sounded good all except he would slow down to get the licks in which make me have to attempt to slow down to match thus didn't sound very good. Is there anyway I can straighten his timing out with cakewalk and stay in tempo. I can adapt to a point but overall it sound really bad. Do you have any suggestions? I'm no pro at cakewalk but pretty good musician. thanks man