Hello everyone

I'm brand new to making music on the computer, so may be missing something obvious.

I'm using Cubase to make my first ever computer track (which is also my first ever attempt at properly orchestrating something, so it's an adventure), but the track slows down significantly for a couple of bars in the middle. The rest of the track also fluctuates in tempo, but in a more subtle way.

It may be because I reduced the tempo to record some of the midi, to make it easier to play - and then increased the tempo again to play back. I only used the little tempo monitor in the transport bar, but I didn't expect it to slow down the whole project. is there any way to bring the midi that I recorded more slowly back to the speed of the project?

Visually, everything looks good on the timeline - the bars all align with their expected place on the grid, but it slows down when it goes over them.

The rest of the track also fluctuates in tempo, but in a more subtle way.

I'm hoping there's a quick setting or something I can change so that it reverts to the standard project speed?????

I've uploaded short section of the track (link below) with audio fluctuation so you can see what I mean. It's the last 2 bars of this section that most noticeably slow down.

http://heartfulhealing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Slow-Middle-Bit.wav

Do you have a tempo track engaged?

Check that the audio settings are correct. This can happen if there’s a mismatch between the DAW project settings and the system/interface settings.

Say you have an Audient or Apollo interface running at 96k sampling rate, and the DAW project is running at 44k. This can cause something like what you describe to happen.

Basically, wherever there’s a way to select sample rate, make sure the same sample rate is set.

Is it as of the latest 13.04.1 update? That broke musical time stretch mode in Nuendo completely, and depending on certain actions, the clips will automatically change size on the timeline. It's totally fubared and I wonder if it's related to this.
Here's my post at Steinberg on the issue:
https://forums.steinberg.net/t/nuend...pletely/921832

So a clip will go to original tempo unexpectedly and be slow and out of time with everything, or other tracks will sound too slow as that imported clip might be too fast. I do not understand for the life of me how releases like this make it out the door.

If you don't update to version 13.04.1, can't you watch it? Is it mandatory to install that version?

If you've recorded MIDI at a slower tempo, you can adjust the MIDI to match the project tempo