Editing multiple tempo changes simultaneously

[FREIMUZIC]

Greetings!
I am running DP 11.2 on Mac OS Catalina

I have a conductor track with many tempo changes.

I wonder if there is a way to increase o decrease the value of all the tempo changes in my conductor track simultaneously …for example , to make the whole thing 5% faster or 3 bpm slower…
Thanks !!!

[mikehalloran]

There is no single global tempo command that just does what you want the way you describe it as far as I know.. I’m happy to be wrong on this. You can certainly accomplish multiple tempo changes through the tools and commands covered in Chapter 58 in the User Guide.

[James Steele]

Greetings!
I am running DP 11.2 on Mac OS Catalina

I have a conductor track with many tempo changes.

I wonder if there is a way to increase o decrease the value of all the tempo changes in my conductor track simultaneously …for example , to make the whole thing 5% faster or 3 bpm slower…
Thanks !!!

Well what do you know. I learn something new every day from this forum. I decided to go look into this for myself. I figured you could select all the tempo events in the conductor track in the Sequence Editor and then carefully drag them upward using the mouse, etc, but turns out there really IS a more elegant way to do it.

Just select all the tempo events in Sequence Editor (can probably do this in Track Overview too) and then choose "Scale Tempos..." from the Region menu. See the screenshot attached... I was able to easily add 1bpm to each tempo change event, but there are more options there. I did this on a purely MIDI project. Not sure what effect it will have on your audio. I hadn't done this in a while, you might have to play around with that a bit if you have recorded audio files in your sequence. I think you want to make sure existing beats were embedded onto your soundbites, then after the tempo change, make the soundbites conform to the new tempo. It's been a while. But that should get you started.

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[waterstrum]

Right on James!

So cool that you took this on and figured it out.

I try to learn at least one new technique every day.
I'll add this tip to my list.

Thanks!

[FREIMUZIC]

Thanks so much for taking the time to explain this, James!!!

[bayswater]

Thanks for this tip. Very useful.

[James Steele]

Thanks for this tip. Very useful.

I'm embarrassed, honestly, that I didn't know it was there! It's right there in the menu. Probably shows just how little I use tempo changes. I tend to stay locked into a certain tempo at the beginning and sometimes I might draw in a ritardando at the end of a song, but other than that, I just don't do too much that's exotic. I'm a rock'n'roll guy, so give me a break!

[mikehalloran]

That is way cool. I was thrown by the OP wanting to do this in the Conductor track.

I ought to create a key command for "Tell us what you want to accomplish, not how you think you want to do it"

[greg328]

What if--I need to change the tempo beat value of many tempo events at once--say--the tempo evens are quarter notes and I need them all to be dotted quarter note values? I see no way to do a bulk change of this value--wish there was a way!

[stubbsonic]

It's possible you could use a macro editor to create a workflow step through the "moves" to change them more quickly.

Another approach would be to create one measure of the tempo changes per beat, then select that entire bar, and use the "Repeat..." function from the Edit Menu (or option-drag in the tracks overview). Then you can use some "Scale Tempo..." to rough shape things.

What about tap tempo?

It might be possible that working with the music in 3/4 with triplets is less of a headache in DP, if you were going to do your notation in another program-- but of course, I get why that probably won't work.