Pro Tools: Changing Tempo

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Part of the video series: Pro Tools Music Recording Software

Summary: Pro Tools users can change the tempo of a song using the tempo bar. Learn how to adjust the tempo of an audio track with Pro Tools in this free music recording software video from a professional musician.

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By Eric Oliver
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Eric Oliver is a producer/engineer who has been working with local and regional acts out of Boston for the past eight years. He has a bachelor's degree in music production and...read more

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whispaz said

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on 7/19/2009 Hey man, I was wondering....how do I change the tempo of a project without changing the tempo of the recorded tracks?

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Video Transcript

"In this clip I will show you how to set and change the tempo of a song. Most of the time songs end in the same tempo that they started in. Here in Pro Tools the top left side we have our tempo bar. You can pull it down and you can see; it explains some of the more, some of the parameters of the actual tempo. So, at the beginning we have a one twenty, which is what every session will start at. You can just type in, after double clicking any tempo you want and it will change the whole session. To have more than one tempo change within a song you want to hit control click and it will give you at the location what bar and what tempo you want it to be. So, let's say we want to change from eighty to one-twenty at bar two hundred and forty-five and a half. Therefore; you can see your map here on the screen where your tempo stays at eighty-four, two hundred and forty-five bars and then all of the sudden jumps up to a hundred and twenty and it continues on. So, this gives you a map so you can visually see when your tempo is changing and how much it changes."