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Sorry if this has been answered a million times.

From the lack of replies and my failure to find out online, does no one do this? It seems like it would be an obvious feature for the MIDI Capture. You're just noodling around without a click, and if you like something that you played, you now have to figure out what tempo you had in mind at the time?

There's got to be a way to do this. I saw a video of a guy who uses the Looper device to determine the tempo of his audio ideas, but it wasn't easy.

Is there no way to just detect a tempo from an improvisation?

Live does not have time lock for midi so
need to freeze the midi track
Copy it to an audio track. Turn off Warp
Play with the master tempo by dragging up and down until transients roughly matches the grid.

Thank you. That's too bad.

I may have figured out a way to do it.

Based on ozinga's recommendation, I froze the captured midi track, then dragged the frozen clip onto an audio track. I then dragged *that* clip into a looper device on another audio track. The looper figured out the tempo, and it seems to be pretty accurate.

There may be a way to eliminate a step here, but I'm fairly new to Ableton and this does what I wanted.

Cheers if anyone else ever wanted to do this.

Mark Alias wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 07, 2023 11:18 pm

Is there no way to just detect a tempo from an improvisation?

I would listen back to it and count along.