Tempo and meter belong together. without both, there is no way to know where a beat lies in time.
-Tempo provides a musical pulse, which is divided into beats and bars by a meter.
+Tempo provides a musical pulse, which is divided into beats and bars by a meter. +When you change tempo or move an audio-locked meter, all objects on the timeline that are glued to bars and beats (locations, regions) will move in sympathy.
-In PROGRAM_NAME, tempo can be adjusted in several ways: +
Tempo can be adjusted in several ways:
NOTE - When dragging the BBT ruler, musical snap has no effect, however be warned that non-musical snap is in effect if enabled. Snapping to a minute while dragging a beat may result in some verly slow tempos. Snapping a beat to a video frame however is an incredibly useful way to ensure your soundtrack is punchy and synchronised to the sample.
Tempo may be locked to audio or musical time. You may change this by right-clicking on a tempo. +
A tempo may be locked to audio or musical time. You may change this by right-clicking on a tempo. If a tempo is locked to music, an entry will be available to lock it to audio. Similarly an audio-locked tempo may be locked to music by right clicking it an selecting the "Lock to Music" entry.
-Audio locked tempos stay in their frame position as their neigbours positions are altered. Their pulse (musical) position will change as their neighbours move. -Music locked tempos move their frame position as their neighbours are moved, but keep their pulse position (they will move as the music is moved). +
Audio locked tempo marks stay in their frame position as their neigbours positions are altered. Their pulse (musical) position will change as their neighbours move. +Music locked tempo marks move their frame position as their neighbours are moved, but keep their pulse position (they will move as the music is moved).
A tempo may be remped or constant. -
A constant tempo will keep the sesion tempo constant until the next tempo section, at which time it will jump instantly to the next tempo. -these are mostly useful abrupt changes, and is the way in which traditional DAWs deal with tempo changes (abrupt jumps in tempo).
+A ramped tempo increases its tempo over time so that when the next tempo section has arrived, the sesion tempo is the same as the second one. -this is useful for matching the session tempo to music which has been recorded without click tracks or electronic clocks. +
To add a new tempo, use the primary modifier and click on the tempo line at the desired position. The new tempo will be the same as the tempo at the position of the mouse click (it will not change the shape of the ramp). -<.p> +
To copy a tempo, hold down the primary modifier and drag the tempo you wish to copy.
+Meter positions beats using the musical pulse of a tempo, and groups them into bars using its number of divisions per bar. +
The first meter in a new session may be moved freely. It has an associated tempo which cannot be dragged by itself (although all others can). It can be moved freely and is locked to audio.
@@ -74,18 +73,18 @@ a break in music which cannot be counted in beats. That bar number cannot be changed, nor can tempo motion allow the previous bar to overlap. If you need another bar, lock the meter to music again (right click->"Lock to Music"), drag the meter to the desired bar and re-lock to audio. You may now drag your new bar freely again. -+
Lets imagine we want to match PROGRAM_NAMEs click to a drum performance recorded in 'free time'. +
As a general approach, the best way to control tempo ramps is to use them in pairs. +
+Lets imagine we want to match the click to a drum performance recorded in 'free time'.
The first thing we need to do is determine where the first beat is. Drag the first meter to that position.
Now the first click will be in time with the first beat. To get all the other beats to align, we listen to the drums @@ -98,17 +97,17 @@ You will see this reflected in the tempo lines.. they won't quite match the drum We now locate the earliest position where the click doesn't match, and place a new tempo just before this. Two bars later, place another new tempo.
-Now while dragging any beat *after* the second new tempo, watch the drum audio and tempo lines until they align. +Now while dragging any beat after the second new tempo, watch the drum audio and tempo lines until they align.Notice what is happeneing here: the tempo previous to your mouse pointer is being changed so that the beat you grabbed aligns with the pointer. -Notice that the tempo lines previous to the changed one also move. This is because the previous tempo is ramping *to* the tempo you are changing. +Notice that the tempo lines previous to the changed one also move. This is because the previous tempo is ramping to the tempo you are changing. Look further to the left. The tempo lines in the first four bars do not move.
Again, some time later the click will not align. I didn't say this was easy.
-Repeat the same technique : add two new tempos and drag the BBT ruler *after* the newest tempo so that the beats align with the audio again. +
Repeat the same technique : add two new tempos and drag the BBT ruler after the newest tempo so that the beats align with the audio again.
In a general sense, adding tempo markers in pairs allows you to 'pin' your previous work while you move further to the right. @@ -129,18 +128,17 @@ would be good for this, but you want an accelerando to that point.
Add a tempo ar bar 4.
-Holding down the constraint modifier, and with snap set to 'TC Frames', grab the BBT ruler just *after* 4|1|0. +
Holding down the constraint modifier, and with snap set to 'TC Frames', grab the BBT ruler just after 4|1|0. Drag the ruler so that 4|1|0 snaps to the 'phone' frame.
-Notice what happened : The second tempo was changed. -
-You had set a musical position for the second tempo marker. It was not alignaed with the frame you wanted, so +
Notice what happened : The second tempo was changed.
+You had set a musical position for the second tempo marker. It was not aligned with the frame you wanted, so
you dragged the BBT ruler, making the second tempo provide enough pulses over the ramp for 4|1|0 to align with the desired frame.
If your ramp doesn't feel correct, you may add more points within it and keep adjusting beat positions in a similar manner.
Audio locked meters can be useful when composing, as they allow a continuous piece of music to be worked on in isolated segments, preventing the listening fatigue of a fixed form.