Project Tempo

Specifying a tempo in the project establishes the link between the project time and the musical time. Musical time indications (bars, quarter notes...) are needed at various places in the program:

• For the Beat grid as a basis for beat-accurate edits

• For MIDI events, whose time positions are always musically defined

• For effects such as delays or modulation effects, when delay times or modulation frequencies are to be defined in musical time units.

• For VST instruments like drum samplers with their own sequencer

• For the grid display with the unit bars & beats

• For sending MIDI synchronization data.

The project tempo can be constant over the duration of the project or it can vary, controlled by tempo markers or a tempo track.

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