Everything was great, now its all out of synch.

[Styles Bitchley]

I was working on a project today in Cubase 5 Essentials, and inadvertantly knocked into my mouse and keyboard while I was mixing. All of a sudden, everything was out of synch, the guitars were ahead of time, the vocals were behind, etc. I saved the project and shut the system down, thinking it could be a driver problem, and when I opened the project back up, it still had the same problem. I tried reverting to earlier versions, but that didn't work, and I also turned the snap to grid command on and off, but nothing is working. Other projects play fine. If anyone has any ideas, it would be great, I've got a lot of time invested in this project, I don't want to start over. The tracks are in the right places on the grid, but they are not playing in synch with the grid or the click. Thanks for your help.

[garageband]

Here's a screw-up I've made before that did this. If you mess up the tempo of the Conductor track, this will happen. Either by messing up the Tempo slider or adding extraneous automation to that track.

[Styles Bitchley]

Here's a screw-up I've made before that did this. If you mess up the tempo of the Conductor track, this will happen. Either by messing up the Tempo slider or adding extraneous automation to that track.

How did you fix it? And it may be more than just tempo. I have a group track of acoustic guitars on there that sounds like it is playing twice, and out of synch, almost a second apart. This is just screwy. Is there a way to revert back to an earlier version somehow? Thanks for your reply, by the way.

[garageband]

Putting back to where it was. Fortunately, I always put the tempo in the Comments field when I start.

[Stan_Halen]

Does Cubase do auto-save backups of your session? This is one thing I like about Pro Tools. You just go back in time and open up a backup session if you screw up.

[Styles Bitchley]

I went in and changed the tempo by 1 bpm, and everything worked. Thanks GB. I was thinking it was more than that due to the strange way the individual tracks were acting. The group track with the acoustic guitars almost sounded like it was looping back on itself, but it all works now. Cubase does auto-save, but I always save the session and go back to the last version. It also lets you revert to earlier files, but I guess the tempo was off on the files I was reverting to. I went back three files, and they were all bad. Either way, thanks for the help, now I just need to figure out how to mix it. I don't know how I caused the problem, I usually need to highlight the bpm and enter it, but somehow I managed to change it by banging the keyboard by mistake.

[brandondrury]

Thanks for the follow up. Those timing shifts are easy to do and can wreak total havoc.

Brandon

[antonium]

Don't know about Cu-base, but in Nuendo (and they are pretty similar) you can tune the program to do auto back-ups on certain time: preferences>general>auto save interval, and maximum backup files. So a day work in project, and after that you can travel back in time anytime you want

[paul999]

Logic does auto backups. I've had this issue in cubase many times and in many ways. It was one of my reasons for abandoning it.

[Firedance]

Don't know about Cu-base, but in Nuendo (and they are pretty similar) you can tune the program to do auto back-ups on certain time: preferences>general>auto save interval, and maximum backup files. So a day work in project, and after that you can travel back in time anytime you want

Nice one - well worth looking into.

[JoshERTW]

Cubase can do auto-save's too - I was actually reading the manual for once a few days back for something totally different and came across that little gem. Still haven't bothered to set it up though