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By Digital Larry Thu Jan 01, 2026 10:11 pm
Turns out this can be annoying. I'd posted about it earlier but now I know (I think) the workaround.

Initially I was recording clips MIDI first, Set Tempo in Row Settings, record audio at that tempo, no problem. But yesterday I got this error again. I went into List Edit view->Tempo and found and removed the offending Tempo command. I think it doesn't matter if the tempo being set there is the same as the current global tempo or the Row Tempo or whatever. It just sees a tempo command and punts. Which is a shame.

And further, I think that clips get tempo change commands added to them if you adjust the global tempo directly. Which is why you might not see this at first. I'll try to remember long enough to think about it next time I'm on the MPC, which should be in a few minutes.
By B-Wise Fri Jan 02, 2026 6:18 pm
Digital Larry wrote:Turns out this can be annoying. I'd posted about it earlier but now I know (I think) the workaround.

Initially I was recording clips MIDI first, Set Tempo in Row Settings, record audio at that tempo, no problem. But yesterday I got this error again. I went into List Edit view->Tempo and found and removed the offending Tempo command. I think it doesn't matter if the tempo being set there is the same as the current global tempo or the Row Tempo or whatever. It just sees a tempo command and punts. Which is a shame.

And further, I think that clips get tempo change commands added to them if you adjust the global tempo directly. Which is why you might not see this at first. I'll try to remember long enough to think about it next time I'm on the MPC, which should be in a few minutes.


That good to know, but why not put this info on first thread?
By Digital Larry Fri Jan 02, 2026 7:03 pm
B-Wise wrote:That good to know, but why not put this info on first thread?

My thought was that the first thread was a bunch of incoherent babbling, while this one was more like finding the solution, but I could also have put it on the other thread and said "SOLVED" or something. I'll keep my threads together in the future. :mrgreen:

DL
By B-Wise Fri Jan 02, 2026 7:59 pm
Digital Larry wrote:My thought was that the first thread was a bunch of incoherent babbling, while this one was more like finding the solution


That's even more reason to put the solution in that thread. Don't leave the people who'll find that thread hanging without a answer. I'm glad figured it out. :o