- Now if you run tracks in Ableton Live's Arrangement View,
you've probably experienced this before.
You drag your track in, you have your tempo set perfectly,
but when you go to build your new set,
your track that was at 95 suddenly becomes 120.
Hey, this is Will Doggett, Ableton Live Certified Trainer,
founder of From Studio to Stage.
Today I wanna show you how you can create a tempo track.
And the tempo track is gonna allow you to save your tempo
with your file so that when you drag it
into a new file, your tempo's gonna follow.
So let's get started.
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Alright, so this is very, very easy to do.
What I'm gonna do is open up my original file here
and create what I call a tempo track.
All the tempo track is, is just a blank clip of audio.
So the way I'm gonna do this is create a new audio track,
and then I'm gonna call this TEMPO.
And then what I wanna do is route the audio
from another track that has no instrument,
or a muted instrument, into this track.
Super easy to do, so I'm gonna do Audio From,
and select SideChain Track.
And then what I wanna do is make sure
that the SideChain Track is muted,
which it is, so I don't hear anything.
I'm gonna click Record, and then
I just wanna record one measure.
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Okay, so now I have a clip that is a measure long
that's gonna be used for my tempo.
And I'm gonna rename this TEMPO.
Now, I can go ahead and kill all the audio routing
that I had before, so let's set that to No Input.
Then what I'm gonna do is cut that clip,
just using Command + X,
and I'm gonna paste it into Arrangement View.
So I'm gonna turn off Back to Arrangement, go to
the beginning here and paste that into Arrangement View.
Now with Loop enabled, I'm gonna click and drag,
and drag this clip all the way
to the end of the arrangement.
Press minus as you drag, so that you zoom out quickly.
And what I wanna make sure I do is I get the entire song,
so all the way to the outro of that.
And then what I wanna do is click
into the TEMPO clip that I created,
and you wanna go down to the area
here that says Segment BPM.
Now right now you see that it says 95 BPM, which is perfect.
We want it to represent whatever BPM our song is,
and in this case it's 95, which is great.
But the other thing I wanna do,
is I wanna change this clip from Slave,
which means it's slaved to Live's master tempo,
and I wanna click it to change it to Master,
which means Live is now gonna follow
that clip's tempo information,
and it's the tempo information
I've entered here in the Segment BPM.
So now if I press Play, you'll see
that the tempo is now grayed out,
and the tempo is saved with this track.
So let's hit Command + S to save our file.
Now I'm gonna open a new Live set, and I'm gonna go through
the same process I did before, delete some of my tracks,
and I wanna drag that same file into my set.
Now I'll delete my XER midi track,
and with this file in there you see now
we have our TEMPO track loaded in,
but our tempo still says 120.
Two ways to change this.
If we add a second song in our set,
suddenly it's gonna detect the master,
and everything's gonna be good.
Or, all we can do is go to Tempo,
deselect Master, and reselect,
and you'll see our stems jump to the correct link
because Live is seeing our tempo now as 95.
And again we can jump down here to the Master track.
If I go and show you the Song Tempo,
you're gonna see how the tempo changed from 95 to 120 here.
And if I drag my TEMPO track out,
you're gonna see the tempo continues
to move and follow that trick.
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