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Ingenious! Love how some folk just get on with it.
Not really, but if it was promised and if you guys care, then ask ask ask and remind the developer.
There is a thread on official Nanostudio 2 forum
https://www.blipinteractive.co.uk/community/index.php?p=/categories/feature-requests
Oh man, I got that message over two years ago with Cubasis 2!
Yes!
It is supposed to come out after a new reverb so I am not going to think about it until that drops first. (whoops, just thought about it.)
I don’t fully understand how you do this. You export stems with metronome click or something like that? More details would be very welcomed
Which part is troubling you? Maybe I can help more specifically.
Basically no click needed in the exporting, I'd compose and mix everything in ns2 and create a loop via mixdown with the settings to mixdown between the loop markers (you can include the tail if you want, you just would have to account for it later by trimming or using multiple tracks).
When the composition and mixing is completely done, then I add it to aem or cubasis or anything that handles audio editing. Most of these daws will have a mode that will snap the audio file to a grid at different quantization amounts, all the way down to 1/64 or something smaller.
All I have to do is snap the beginning of the exported loop to a bar or measure. Then for the next loop, whatever bar or measure the previous loop ended on is where I will snap the beginning of the next loop. Sometimes it will land on an even bar, sometimes on an odd bar.
It will always fit together if in ns2 you set the loop points to a quantized value, x measures or x steps, with x being any whole number. For example I can set something to loop at 124 1/16th notes or steps at 140 bpm, then export just the loop mixdown. Then the next loop is 36 1/16th notes at 90 bpm. And I mixdown. You can also do this with traditional time signatures like 4 bars at 7/4 or whatever loop length and signature you want.
Now when I open up the audio editor, like AEM, I import the two loops, make sure 'snap to grid' is enabled, and align the beginning of the second loop to the end of the first loop. Granted with bpm changes like that it will most definitely sound terrible, and that's why I rarely do sudden random bpm changes, but it's very very easy to arrange because of the audio clip grid quantization, which is included in nearly every audio based daw.
This is ironically much easier to do than to explain.
It is limited in that it's hard to add onto a complex track like that after the fact so you have to commit during your loop composition process before you mixdown. It's not impossible, just... It requires good live playing and timing.
If you're talking about keeping time during the composition process, that's a whole different thing. Most daws will have time signature metronomes, but if they dont, you could create your own click with midi and some hihats of different pitches. Just make sure to delete it or mute it before you mixdown unless you want it in the final mix.
I prefer just to count it out and record it live into midi maybe fixing a few mistakes if I'm not lazy. A little trick is you could actually record midi in 4/4 and then cut off a few notes at the end to radically alter the time signature. It's a fun way to circumvent counting in apples and pineapples 😅
Edit:
Example 1 multiple odd signatures all done in ns2 with no audio tracks:
Example 2: tempo changes done by using 2 or 3 mixdowns of different tempos all composed in ns2, mixed and then faded into each other in another daw (I think aem I don't remember)
@GeorgeL909
That’s an interesting approach, giving interesting results, your music sounds great!!
Thanks for all those explanations
As I record lot of audio, this give me the idea to make metronome tracks in NS2 and import them in CB3, which allow to set locators by holding an audio/midi part.
Then I can record something listening to the metronome track. The biggest limitation is, like you said, that perfect timing is needed. I don’t quantize my audio sax playing however, so that can be a solution if drums and some other parts are made in NS2 perhaps. Or that can be useful for short bridges too. Some delays like Waves one can have tempo set manually, so automation can help here. But that’s potential problems with most synced effects.
That can be easier in CB3 to duplicate songs to work on different time signature/tempos then assemble them as audio stems for arrangement /mixing. Or using a laptop
Ouch ...taking a look at the app store update history was not a great idea