Change time signature for entire song

[Mo Jonez]

This is driving me nuts !  I want my project to start at measure 1 in 3/4 time and retain that time signature for the entire song.  There should be a really simple way to do this, but I cannot find it.  I may have made the mistake of changing the time to 3/4 at a certain points in the song thinking I was changing it for the entire song, but looks like it changed only for those measures... so measure 8, and measure 11, and measure 14 all now show as 3/4 but the rest of the song show as 4/4.  Tried to go back to measure 1 and set it to 3/4 hoping it would resent the entire project from measure 1 onward to 3/4, but no such luck.

Appreciate some guidance on what I'm guessing is a very simple step to set the entire song to 3/4.

Thanks musical friends !

[sjoens]

Have you tried menu Project > Insert Meter/Key Change?

[Promidi]

Press ALT+SHIFT+6

[Mo Jonez]

On 5/18/2025 at 4:02 AM, sjoens said:

Have you tried menu Project > Insert Meter/Key Change?

Yup.  But does not hold the meter I want 3/4 past the first few bars after that reverts back to 4/4  

[Mo Jonez]

9 hours ago, Promidi said:

Press ALT+SHIFT+6

This does not seem to do anything, noting changes, not settings come up nadda.

Edited Monday at 04:00 PM by Mo Jonez

[Chaps]

21 minutes ago, Mo Jonez said:

Yup.  But does not hold the meter I want 3/4 past the first few bars after that reverts back to 4/4  

I've never experienced that behavior before. Perhaps there are other meter/key changes that need to be addressed. Try this; In the main menu select View>Meter/Key. That will open the view that Alt+Shift+6 should open. It is in the Multidock and will show any changes to the key or meter you have made. Select and delete any changes you don't want, if any.

 

[Promidi]

6 hours ago, Mo Jonez said:

This does not seem to do anything, noting changes, not settings come up nadda.

This should bring up the Meter/Key dialogue box.  This is the default keybinging in Sonar 2025,  CbB and Splat for the Meter/Key dialogue box (maybe some earlier versions too)

What version of Cakewalk are you running?

Are you using a workspace that has hidden the Meter/Key dialogue box?

Have you messed around with keybindings?

[sjoens]

Actually it opens the Meter/Key window in Multidock but you have to use the number keys at the top of the keyboard.  The 10-key numbers don't work here - at least mine don't. 

You can then open the Meter/Key dialog by double-clicking one of the time sig entries.  A single click on the Control Bar 4/4 screen and clicking thru the top menu Project>Inset Meter/Key Change... also opens it.

If you only want one key sig, delete all the others listed in the Meter/Key view.

If you put the Now Time Line where you want the change to happen, it will automatically be entered in the Meter/Key dialog window.