I don’t like having to open a small menu, clicking in a text field and manually typing in the tempo. We have the option of using our mouse with the arrow buttons on the side, until you realize that it only changes the decimals which makes them useless. All the other DAWs I’ve used can let you set the tempo by just clicking and moving the mouse, and if you manually want to type in the tempo, there’s no extra popup, you just type it in. I don’t know if this is just how the UI widget toolkit Ardour uses works and we’re stuck with it, but it’s annoying and adds extra resistance to our work. It feels clunky and dated.
Kinda like this? (Which I believe also exists in Ardour IIRC)
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