Scroll-wheel Tempo Adjust

UncleAge · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 4:32 am Post subject: Scroll-wheel Tempo Adjust

Hey Frits, how about adding the ability to adjust the tempo via the mouse scroll-wheel right in the transport bar without having to open the dialog box? And can it have a real time affect on the playback as well?

Zynewave · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 11:36 am Post subject:

I had made some tests with real-time adjustments of tempo, but I need to make some modifications to the engine to make it smooth. It probably will come in a future update.

druid · Licensee Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 400

Real-time adjustments... Does that mean that having a parameter track to adjust tempo could be possible? Not quite the same I guess; but I was wondering if making the engine work better for real-time adjustment was possible, perhaps the same edits could be used for tempo modulation? That would make slowing and speeding tempo up easier as then just a curve could be used.

UncleAge · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 2:24 pm Post subject:

Zynewave · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 10:45 pm Post subject:

druid · Licensee Joined: 16 Feb 2008 Posts: 400

Ah, I was diverging really. I liked in energyXT (the first version) how one could create an envelope track and alter the tempo so it could slowly speed up or down, and also means that it didn't have to be linear; it was so easy to draw a curve and get the tempo to do nice things.

Not sure if it would be heavily used by others, and I only say this because I thought it was a useful feature, but yeah anyway... That's what I was talking about.

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Ahh I misunderstood, somehow. I know what you mean; you wouldn't change the tempo of just one track, it would be more related to the timeline, or similar. Yes, I agree. It made sense in energyXT because you could create just tracks, but with Podium's heirarchy, it would be weird to adjust tempo from, say, a bass track, and have it affect the whole mix.

Mike G · Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:59 pm Post subject:

Hmmmmm.

When you do the tempo adjust frits, why not consider this feature.

Right now I seem to end up with 2 sounds.

1 Start with tempo set, built it up slowly. It sounds clean and regimented and allows me to build up things programmitically as well as live and I have all the quantise features to tidy up the odd stray note.

2 Have no click track just jam live into the box. It sounds live and real and I love it.

But I can never blend the two. (Maybe my lack of patience and experience)

I'd like a feature where I tick the box "Auto tempo" and then just click "record.. and all the DAW looks at my midi input and figures out my tempo.
When I get slow, the daw's tempo gets slow, when I speed up the DAW catches up with me.

All my musical bars map to bars in the DAW.

And I get the best of both worlds, quantise where I need it, adjusting tempo where I went wrong.

Now this could be done so that I play randomly into the daw and afterwards hit a "auto map tempo" if that's easier it doesn't matter.
The main thing is that after I record my first track, I want the tempo to be set by my playing not by tweaking endlessly.

This might well be impossible.

It might be easier if I had to specify a time signature and a tempo range.
It might be easier if I had lay down the drums first.
It might be easier if tempo only followed the bass drum (Or a range of selected notes)

It's a dream ... but it might also be my worse nightmare, when it comes to track number 2 ... having to play along with all my bad timing from track 1.

Anyway food for thought...
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