I had an idea for a feature, born out of a laborious task I’m currently doing, and I wondered whether it was feasible or might interest anyone else?
The idea is to have a “tempo map lane” in the Editor, something akin to the velocity lane (or maybe an automation lane) but not associated with any track. The range of tempos would be the (scroomable) vertical axis of the track, with a lollipop appearing where each tempo marker was horizontally along the timeline, it’s height representing the bpm or the marker at that position.
The point is to be able to alter tempo markers either individually or as a group by selecting a bunch and changing them up/down. It’d be great to be able to alter them either by absolute amounts (e.g. scrolling the mousewheel, all markers increment/decrement by, say, 1 bpm) or scalable/relative amounts, but even just moving all selected up/down in 1 bpm increments would make things less labour-intensive when editing a tempo-map.
Currently, I have a freely played guide part that I’ve used to tempo map a piece. The overall ebb and flow is nice, but some of the tempo increases are a bit too much and need to be reined in: I only found out a way into the recording process and I’m having to go back to square one and redo the map (then re-record everything). It’d be a pain in the arse to keep recording guide tracks, trying to get the perfect one with just the right tempo increase/decrease at every point. Equally, it’s a pain using an existing tempo-map but having to adjust dozens and dozens of tempo markers one by one (and maybe do several passes of that to get everything just right). My thought was, “Wouldn’t it be great to be able to select a load of tempo markers and drag them all down in one go!”
Thoughts?