Chris, The Conductor track needs to be active for any tempo change events within the session to take effect. Disabling the conductor track will change everything to one static tempo. Keep the conductor track enabled. Next, make sure you don't have pre-roll enabled. Either verify that it's not checked under the Options menu or go to the Transport window and bring up an Item Chooser and type p r e. Make sure that button is off. Make sure Count-in is not enabled. All of these things can throw you off.
You already created your 100 bpm tempo event at the start of the timeline. Now go to the bar you wish the tempo change to occur. Now, I know you said bar 111 but you have to verify that's exactly the bar. If your pre roll was on earlier and you listened to it by ear and then looked at the counter, your calculation would be off by the number of pre-roll bars you had set. That's why you have to be a thousand percent sure of where you want your tempo change to occur. Now, go to that bar and bring up the Tempo Event window. Navigate to the bpm field and click it once. Now, type a decimal first then 85 then Enter. The first time you click on that field, it's not the first part of the number that is highlighted but the second part after the decimal point. Pressing the decimal key on the num pad will cycle the selection over to the field in front of the decimal. Press the Apply button and you should be good to go. Slau On Jan 9, 2016, at 10:36 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <[email protected]> wrote: > OK guys, here is my situation. I have a song which I'm tracking in the > studio which is 4/4 time, and for 99.999% of the song, 100BPM tempo. The > last 3 bars of the song however have a tempo change down to 85 bars. Yes, my > session, indeed, has a click track. > > So, so far, what I have done is, I went to the event menu in my menu bar, and > to tempo operations. In here, I then went to constant. Before I go any > further, let me clarify something which could prove disastrous in the long > run, if I don't do so. This tempo change is absolutely *not!* a gradual > thing. It literally is a complete jump from 100 down to 85. > > So anyway, getting back to the constant tempo window, in here, I've set the > tempo at the start of my session, by hitting return, to 100 within the > constant tempo dialog. Then, I am moving to bar 111, which is where I need > the tempo to change. I'm doing this by pressing numpad slash, then typing 1 > 1 1 on the numpad, followed by numpad enter. Now, once on bar 111, I'm > bringing up the event menu in the menu bar, going back to tempo operations, > then back to constant once again. In here I am now setting the tempo to > 85BPM. The strange thing is, not only is that not taking effect at bar 111 > as it should, but when I then hit space bar to play things back, and make > sure my click track follows that tempo change, I find that it's landing my > play head at a totally different place in the session, (often times I can't > get it to be consistent where exactly it lands.) Not only this, but the > tempo change doesn't take effect. > > I thought perhaps maybe I needed to go into the transport window, and disable > the conductor track to make this work, but when I do that, I then have the > issue of in the constant tempo screen, I can't change it. As soon as I > disable the conductor track, the over all constant tempo throughout the whole > session jumps to 120BPM, and try as I may, no matter how hard I try, I cannot > get any tempo modification to stick. So, clearly, I'm doing something wrong. > > How do I do this? No, I have never done tempo changes before in ProTools. > I've never had the need until now. > > Chris. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
