Song tempo automation bug?

Sharkcellar · Post by **Sharkcellar** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:15 am

I've never run into this before so I'm stumped. If I try to write a song tempo curve in the master track it all of a sudden goes grey and the tempo doesn't respond to the automation at all. Even if I clear the envelope and set the tempo back to default, "song tempo" remains greyed out and unresponsive until I close and open the project again, yielding the same results if I try it again. I'm doing this on my mac. I'm gonna move over to my PC and see if I can reproduce this.

Is this a feature or a bug? Am I just missing something?

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:25 am

There's got to be something else trying to change the tempo -

do you have the tempo field mapped to a controller or anything?

Have any scenes with tempo names?

Sharkcellar · Post by **Sharkcellar** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:54 am

I've just tried replicating this on my PC. My default template setup has nothing but two tracks to start with, an audio and a MIDI one. I didn't add any clips at all.

1.I went to the arrangement view and selected the 'song tempo' drop down on the master track.

2. I used the arrow and mouse clicked a couple of nodes on the automation timeline.

3. I dragged the right one down signifying a slow down. so far, so good, the automation timeline is still red signifying that it is live and active.

4. Now if I click in the track, say at the beginning to highlight a bar, and drag the global tempo, up in the top left, bam! my automation goes grey and there isn't jack I can do now but close this project and reopen it.

Exact same results as on my mac.

Longjohns,

No, everything is default settings. No MIDI mapping to the tempo.

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 2:41 am

well, you can't use automation and then change the tempo up top left!!!

(you can, but it will grey out - perfectly normal behavior)

Sharkcellar · Post by **Sharkcellar** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 3:15 am

Fine, that's understandable. But why can't I revive my automation after futzing with the global tempo? Or rather how do I get the automation to be acknowledged again?

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:02 am

hit the back to arrangement button, top center-ish (red)

Sharkcellar · Post by **Sharkcellar** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:55 am

No shit!

Thanks for the help Longjohns.

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 2:50 pm

Sorry for not mentioning that sooner. we kind of did this one the hard way