Using The Tempo Toolbar - CAKEWALK SONAR User Manual

any other type of change you can imagine. The tempo changes you add to your project become
part of the project and are saved with the project file.
You can add tempo changes to your project in the following ways:
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Using the Tempo toolbar

• Using the Insert-Tempo Change and Insert-Series of Tempos commands
• By drawing tempo changes graphically in the Tempo view
• Inserting tempo changes in the Tempo view's Tempo List pane
The Process-Fit to Time and Process-Fit Improvisation commands can also be used to
introduce tempo changes into your work file. For more information, see "Stretching and
Shrinking Events" on page 265 and "Fit Improvisation" on page 278.
When you change the tempo of a project that contains audio, SONAR allows you to stretch or
shrink audio clips when you have converted them to Groove clips and have enabled the
Follow Project Pitch option in the Loop Construction view. Otherwise, the MIDI tracks will
speed up or slow down while the audio tracks will play at the same speed. For more
information about Groove clips, see "Working with Groove Clips" on page 234. Audio clips
that are not Groove clips change in size when moved to a part of your project that has a
different tempo.
Sometimes you don't want to adjust the speed of your audio. Here are some examples:
• If your project contains background music and a voice-over, you might want to change
the tempo of the background music without altering the voice-over.
• If you're trying to modify the speed of some MIDI tracks to match a sampled drum
groove, you want to leave the audio unchanged.
When you change the tempo of your project, clips having stretching enabled change tempo
along with the project, while those that do not have stretching enabled do not. For more
information on stretch-enabling clips, see "Enable Stretching" on page 228.
Tempos set when the clock source is set to MIDI Sync do not have any effect, because SONAR
follows the external tempo. For more information, see Chapter 18, Synchronizing Your Gear.
Using the Tempo Toolbar
The Tempo toolbar displays the current tempo and lets you change the tempo as shown
below:
Click to insert a tempo change
Click to enter a new Tempo ratio
tempo buttons
When you enter a new tempo directly in the toolbar, you change the most recent tempo
setting in the project.
The tempo ratio buttons temporarily change the speed of playback, without affecting the
actual tempo that is stored with your project (see Note, below). During playback, the tempo is
multiplied by the current tempo ratio. By default, the three tempo ratios are 0.50 (half
speed), 1.00 (normal speed), and 2.00 (double speed). You can change the tempo ratios that
are associated with each button.
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