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Synchronizing to existing music and recovering lost Sync Tracks
It is not uncommon to have to synchronise MIDI sequencing to existing music. To
do this, you need the Master Track editor and a tape with the music on one track
and time code on another.
Anyone who has been in the unfortunate situation of losing a time code track, for
example by accidentally erasing it, knows how time consuming it can be to restore
it.
The procedure below lets you do both these things very easily:
1. Start by striping the tape with fresh time code, if necessary. This code
should start a few bars before the music and extend well after it.
2. Activate the Master Track by clicking on the Master button on the Trans-
port bar.
3. Set up synchronisation to this time code, and verify it works as expected.
See the Synchronization chapter for details.
4. Try to set an approximate initial tempo.
You can for example turn off sync, and guess at a tempo. Start the sequencer
in time with the metronome turned on, and adjust roughly.
5. In the Synchronization dialog, set a Songstart position approximately (for
example) two bars before the music starts. Turn on sync again.
6. In the same dialog, to make the Time Ruler in Cubase VST display the ac-
tual time code on the tape, set the Time Display to the same value as the
Songstart. Also set Bar Display to for example -2 (if the music starts two
bars after the Songstart), so that position 1.1.0 in the Song is where the
music will actually start.
7. Use MIDI to insert a Time Hit where the music starts. Verify its position
by making it play back for example a drum sound via MIDI.
8. Draw a Meter Hit on Bar 1, and link it to the corresponding Time Hit.
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