Hi Martin, OK, I can now outline the steps one would need to take to edit tempo events to some degree in the tempo ruler. One caveat is that a utility like Keyboard Maestro or Move Mouse or some other such tool is fairly necessary to avoid clicking in the dark, so to speak.
Here's a little background: The ruler which appears above the timeline in the Edit window can be set to display several lanes of information. Whatever the Main counter displays is going to be the default for the ruler and the ruler is always showing at least one type of info: bars/beats, minutes/seconds, etc. When anything other than bars/beats, minutes/seconds or any other time or length-based ruler is being displayed, it's possible to select or edit the events within that ruler. This includes things like meter changes, tempo changes, markers, etc. Visually, one can double-click an event icon and edit the event in the resulting dialog. Also, one can click in the ruler to create an insertion point to select a range of events. It's also possible to select clips in addition to the ruler events. I'll get to that in a moment. First, let's say you wanted to select all events within the tempo ruler to move them 2 bars later. Here's what you would need to do to prepare and perform that task: 1. Go to the Rulers submenu under the view menu and select "Minimal." This will show only one type of ruler, your default for the session. Let's assume it's bars and beats. 2. Now go to the same submenu again and choose "Tempo." This will display a second ruler in the ruler area which will show tempo events. 3. In the Edit window, go to the Add Tempo Change button. You can find it easily by bringing up the Item Chooser and typing "add." This is where you'll need to use Keyboard Maestro or some other reliable tool to move the mouse pointer a half inch to the right to click inside the tempo ruler. However you get past this point is up to you but that's the goal. 4. Move a half inch to the right and click with the mouse pointer. Now an insertion cursor will appear in the tempo ruler. At this point you can type in a location for the main counter or press Return to get to the beginning of the session. In other words, just as you would work with audio selection, you can select a range that will affect the events within that range. So, since we want to select all events… 5. Press Return to get to the top of the session and press Shift-Option-Return to select the entire timeline for the session. At this point, you can do a few things. You can cut or use the nudge controls to move everything. How you do this is up to you but there are a few ramifications. If you have audio recorded and it is tick-based, it's going to move based on what the tempo changes are. If you have an initial tempo event at the top of the session, it might be a wise choice to select the events in the ruler not from the beginning of the session but from bar 2 or whatever is appropriate. That way, any timing for initial audio won't be affected. 6. The point is, you can now paste or nudge or do whatever you wish to the events in this ruler. When you're done, the insertion will still be located in the ruler so the best way of eliminating it is to simply hide the ruler. Go to the Rulers menu again and choose "Minimal." Now, let's say if you wanted to move audio and MIDI along with the tempo events. What you'd need to do is extend the insertion point within the timeline to include the ruler above. To do this, you'll need to Shift-click on the ruler in question. So, what you would do is follow the steps above while making sure the audio and MIDI tracks are selected. When you get to the part where you click inside the tempo ruler, add the Shift modifier. Now, anything you do in terms of cutting and pasting or nudging, etc. will affect the events in the ruler as well as the audio and MIDI tracks. Much like before, you'll want to hide the ruler when you no longer want to edit or affect the events in that ruler. Hope that helps. Slau On Jun 16, 2016, at 3:47 AM, Martin (Punky) Sopart <m...@cakewalker.de> wrote: > Hi Slau! > > When selecting the session from start to end and unchecking "keep tempo after > selection", I can also use a constant tempo change to ooverwrite all previous > tempo changes. > Or do I miss anything? > > Thanks! / Martin >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] >> On Behalf Of Slau Halatyn >> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 12:13 AM >> To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: Tempo changes >> >> Hi Martin, >> >> The editing of tempo changes is usually done right within the tempo ruler. >> Unfortunately, the rulers are not yet accessible. That might not mean that >> it's >> entirely impossible to shift tempo events. Normally, one would click within >> the ruler to select events or a range of events. An insertion cursor appears >> and, in many respects, it works sort of like the insertion cursor within >> tracks. >> Technically, you can extend the insertion point from the audio tracks into >> the >> ruler area by, if I remember correctly, Shift-clicking in the ruler, but I >> could be >> wrong about the modifier. It's been a few years since I went through such a >> process. >> >> The issue here is a matter of reliably clicking the mouse within the tempo >> ruler. I haven't really tried this in recent versions of Pro Tools. Frankly, >> with 2 >> tempo changes, it's far easier to simply recreate the two changes rather than >> trying to figure out how to move them. If you create a new linear tempo for >> the entire session, it will overwrite any previous tempo events. Then just go >> to the first bar where you want the first tempo change to occur and create a >> tempo event as you normally would. Again, with two tempo changes, it's >> probably better to simply do it over. At some point, I'll try to figure out >> a way >> to click into the ruler and share the procedure. >> >> Best, >> >> Slau >> >> On Jun 14, 2016, at 9:44 AM, Martin (Punky) Sopart <m...@cakewalker.de> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi all! >>> >>> I have a session including a metronome and some audio tracks. >>> The session also has 2 tempo changes. >>> >>> Now I have to insert 2 further bars at the beginning of the session for all >>> tracks for recording. >>> >>> First I selected all tracks via command+a. >>> Further I selected the first two bars by moving to bar three and then >>> pressing Shift+Enter. >>> Finally I pressed Command+Shift+E to insert silence. >>> >>> All tracks have been moved 2 bars to the right but the tempo changes are >>> still at their initial positions. >>> >>> What is the best way to move existing tempo changes? >>> >>> Thanks in advance! / Martin >>> >>> -- >>> 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 ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> 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 ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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. 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