Hey everyone
this time on Tim talks audio Studio One's tempo track and how to do meter changes if
You are constructing a song a great way to add or alter
The energy of the song is to have a tempo or meter change at different sections
Setting this up in studio one is super easy
Here's a quick little song using the MVP loops that I put together
I doubled it over so that it gives us some length and it sounds like this
Let's say I want to add a little excitement halfway through this loop and add a tempo change
First thing you would do is open the tempo track, which can be done a couple different ways
First you can point and click on this little clock that when you hover over says open tempo track
Another way you could do it is by assigning a custom hotkey Studio One doesn't have a default hotkey to open the tempo track
So I went ahead and made one that works for me. Mine is command option T
And it'll open and close tempo track
When you make your own hotkey make it so that it works for you and it's something easy to remember
Command option T tempo. So here it is as you can see. There's not much happening
But that's because it's just a static tempo at the moment currently set
so 150 bpm now, let's say at bar 9 we want to increase the songs tempo to
170 to really go over the top but it's a good way to show you of what's actually happening on the tempo track
I'm going to hold down the option key on Mac or the Alt key on PC
And this gives me a pencil tool but with some different abilities that the normal pencil tool wouldn't let us do so at bar 9
Let's make our tempo change
Keep in mind the height of the tempo track reflects the available BPMS for studio one
The smaller the tempo track the smaller the resolution so let's go ahead and increase our resolution
Now let's add our tempo change
You can see with a simple click it put it to a
181 beats per minute if you need to alter this you can click
and drag
Now let's take a listen to our new transition
And
There's our tempo change, but let me show you something cool about using the option modifier key
That we can't do with the regular pencil tool at our 10 we can click and drag and create
different step tempo changes and this is dependent on your
Quantized amount. So right now I'm set for quarter notes and every quarter note. I'm
Degrading the tempo all the way down to 72 bpm. So now when we listen
It dramatically slows over time if
You need to remove a tempo change that you made
simply click and hit delete
Your last tempo will then carry out through the rest of your song until the next tempo change
I've brought us back to our original tempo and now we're gonna introduce metered changes
Meter changes don't happen in the tempo track so we can go ahead and take that away
The place to make meter changes is actually just in your standard timeline bar
Let's say at bar 17. We want to change go ahead and click to locate to bar 17
Then right click and insert time signature you'll get this dialog box
which allows you to enter any number into the numerator and
select one of a few
Predetermined denominators. Let's go for 6/8 right now
Now you can see on our timeline at bar 17 it changes to 6/8 and
this will carry out through the remainder of the song or
Until your next meter change
You can have as many time signature changes as you want and you're really only limited by your own creativity
Removing is is easy as right clicking on the change and selecting remove time signature
It will revert to the last known time signature and carry that one out
That's all for now. If you found this informative, please like the video or leave a comment. See you next time and thanks for watching