Specifications

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Working with Straighten Up
Straighten Up is a function, and as all others in the Master Track editor it is located
on the pop-up Do menu. Straighten up adjusts and inserts tempi to make Linked
Time and Meter Hits match, so that musical positions (Meter Hits) happen at spe-
cific time cues (Time Hits).
Switching to “Straighten Up Mode” (Show Hitpoint Links)
To display the Links between Hitpoints (instead of the Tempo Match lines) activate
Show Hitpoint Links on the pop-up Options menu.
How Straighten Up works
When you have input and adjusted your Hitpoints and select Straighten Up, all Hit-
points are examined, one pair at a time, starting from the beginning of the song.
To make the two Hitpoints match in time and meter, Tempo Events just before the
pair are adjusted. Visually, this turns any diagonal link-line into a solid vertical one.
If there isn't enough tempo changes for Straighten Up to make a pair match, it will
ask for permission to insert additional tempo Events.
In some cases a perfect match can not be found (for "mathematical" reasons). In
this case, the line remains dotted, but it may be straight on screen anyway. This
slight mismatch (which is always in the millisecond range) probably won't be
noted.
If you have cross-linked Hitpoints, the program will be unable to straighten up and
will inform you via a dialog box.
Working with visual cues
If you are working with music for film or video, for example with Cubase VST
synced to time code from a video, Straighten Up is an invaluable tool for making
cues match the picture. Here's a general outline of how to work with Hitpoints and
Straighten Up:
1. Set up synchronisation to the video.
See the Synchronization chapter.
2. Activate the Master Track (press Master on the Transport Bar) and open
the Master Track editor. Set an approximate initial tempo for the music
you have in mind.
3. In the Synchronisation dialog box, find a starting point, for example ap-
proximately two bars before the music should actually start.
4. 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
Song Start. Also set Bar Display to for example -2, so that position 1.1.0
in the Song is where the music should actually start.