Does this feature exist? move tempo change without affecting subsequent

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#1

A useful feature for my workflow would be the ability to drag tempo change markers without affecting the position of tempo changes that are later on the timeline. By “position” here I mean the relative position of regions and tempo markers. There are potentially many ways to implement this feature, but the simplest I can imagine is basically a “wall” - a marker that says “tempo changes on the left of this marker do not affect the position of stuff to the right of the marker”.

Does any such functionality exist in Ardour at present? I’ve searched around and tried different approaches but none have allowed me to reliably reorder sections of music that are of different tempos.

#2

Adding a BBT marker will function as a “wall” in the way you describe. A BBT marker denotes both a time (Bars|Beats|Ticks), a tempo and a meter (time signature).

This is, however, a little-used feature and you may run into some other issues when using multiple of them.

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#3

This is great! I was hoping for this a long time and it was there all of it.

#4

As mentioned though, be careful … still bugs with > 1 BBT marker