Fun with tempo maps

[wwzeitler]

I've used tempo maps a lot in Cubase, but DP of course has slightly different ways of doing things, which I'm trying to figure out.

Being a DP newbie, I've made a bit of a mess and I'm trying to fix it.

In the attached example, I want to drag the beat line at 12|1 to where 11|2 is (so I have 3 even beats instead of the one super slow one). But I can only drag the beat line at 12|1 to 11|3. Which makes sense. I could drag the beat lines at 11|2 and 11|3 to the left until I make room, but then I end up with really uneven beats between 11|1 and 12|1. Is there a way to do this?

THANKS!

[stubbsonic]

This is really difficult to understand. Are you syncing to audio, or is this just all MIDI that you're trying to influence.

You have tempo events which will affect rate of things; and you have time-signature data which can affect how many beats are in a particular bar.

I can't pretend I know what you are trying to do, and the image and description don't make sense in my way of thinking. Perhaps someone else can follow it? But I'm just thinking it might help if you took another run at it.

[wwzeitler]

The answer is: use "apply adjusted beat's tempo until end of sequence" on 11|1 (move it even a smidge and back) to clear out all the tempo changes to the end.

[bayswater]

It isn’t that easy to figure out tempo maps in DP from scratch. There are commands that have to be used together that don’t seem to have much to do with each other when you first try it. On top of that, there aren’t really any basic commands to do the simple things with more complicated processes for the complicated stuff.

I suggest you search for 5 videos made on the topic in MOTU TV in Youtube.. These were done my a former MOTU employee that knew how it works. The videos are based on an old MOTU version, but they still apply.

I found it useful to read the manual chapters after looking at the videos, and then making some notes I could go back to. If you don’t do the tempo maps regularly, you tend to forget where to start.