Using Advanced Arithmetic to Make Boss Music

What was the time signature you just heard? If you thought 4/4, you're close. Here's what that percussion would have sounded like in 4/4. And here's what the actual groove sounds like if you would put a 4/4 click over it. Something's missing towards the end there. Let me explain. This rhythm starts in 4/4, [music] which consists of four beats, all divided into two eighth notes. However, my rhythm in the end there goes done. And here it turns into triplets, and I remove the last triplet. However, because the subdivision of the 4/4 bar is with two eighth notes, when I would remove one of those, it becomes a 7/8 bar, and that's too much because So, what I need to do is somehow recalculate this bar that the beat is not divided in two notes, but in three. And all the Dora explorers out there are probably screaming right now, "It's a 12/8 bar." And you're all completely right. So, in a 12/8 bar, you also have four beats, but here each beat has a dot that's the half of the note length to it, which in this case is an eighth note. So, each beat is divided by three eighth notes. And now, what I can do is remove this final eighth note, and I'm left with done done da da da da da da bar that has the rhythmic change that I need. And this is the core concept I used in the music for the final boss fight in our game Half. By removing the last triplet from the second bar, it actually feels as if the music is chasing you and catching up to you. However, now the problem becomes what to do to get this rhythm back. So, this rhythm, instead of writing it like this, just like this note gets 50% added to it by adding a dot, this note adds 50% to it, 16th note in this case, represented by a dot. Final thing I need to do is make sure my tempo works. Quarter note is 145, and here I need to make sure that a quarter note with a dot is 145. However, Cubase doesn't do tempos with quarter notes with a dot, or maybe it does and I just don't know about it. In order to make sure that this happens, we need to recalculate what a quarter note is. Since a beat needs to contain 1 and 1/2 times as much information as it used