[Feature request] Scale tempos feature?

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2007/11/17 07:00:50 (permalink)

[Feature request] Scale tempos feature?

I work with midi-only files a lot and do a lot of playing around to get the right tempo. Quite a few of my songs have tempo changes. What I want to know is this - is there a way to scale ALL the tempos in a project by a selected amount?? For example, if I have a project that starts at 70bpm, then changes to 90, and then to 80... and I want to scale all tempos by 110%. Then after the scaling the project should now start at 77bpm, and then change to 99, and then 88. Is there a way to do this?, because I often feel that I have the relative tempos set all right, but then I want to experiment with the overall speed of my song. If I want to speed up or slow down my song, then I have to go through each tempo change and do it manually. I can't see any such feature in the tempo-view (alt-9) so I assume its not possible. If not, then I think Cakewalk should consider adding a feature like this to Sonar - it would only take 10 minutes to program anyhow.
post edited by finrod - 2007/11/17 18:16:57
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    torhan
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    RE: Scale tempos feature? 2007/11/17 07:19:53 (permalink)
    In the Tempo toolbar there should be 3 "Tempo Ratio" buttons. By default, the three tempo ratios are .50 (half speed), 1.00 (normal) and 2.00 (double speed). You can change the temp ratios that are associated with each button.

    Shift-click one of the button to display/change that buttons ratio.

    Remember, this only works if there is no audio clips anywhere in the project.

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    RE: Scale tempos feature? 2007/11/17 07:32:09 (permalink)
    ORIGINAL: torhan

    In the Tempo toolbar there should be 3 "Tempo Ratio" buttons. By default, the three tempo ratios are .50 (half speed), 1.00 (normal) and 2.00 (double speed). You can change the temp ratios that are associated with each button.

    Shift-click one of the button to display/change that buttons ratio.
    Remember, this only works if there is no audio clips anywhere in the project.


    This doesn't work for me. When I shiftclick the toolbar buttons Sonar allows me to move them around, not edit the tempo ratio. I am user Sonar Home Studio 6. Is this feature only in Sonar 7?
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    RE: Scale tempos feature? 2007/11/17 08:00:42 (permalink)

    ORIGINAL: finrod


    This doesn't work for me. When I shiftclick the toolbar buttons Sonar allows me to move them around, not edit the tempo ratio. I am user Sonar Home Studio 6. Is this feature only in Sonar 7?


    Then you should post this Q in the Home Studio forum

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    RE: Scale tempos feature? 2007/11/17 14:13:17 (permalink)

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    RE: Scale tempos feature? 2007/11/17 18:05:26 (permalink)
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    Like I said, I really think Cakewalk should implement this feature. It really wouldn't take a lot of programming and would be especially useful for those of us who like to sequence "classical"-style music.
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    RE: Scale tempos feature? 2007/11/17 19:19:15 (permalink)
    Remember, this only works if there is no audio clips anywhere in the project.


    It also does not work if you have no audio track and any of the MIDI tracks use a softsynth
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