to any one who has not yet experimented with tempo change

it will make you swell with joy. do it immediately.

i had no idea it was so easy. can't believe i hadnt touched it until now.

main reason why i bought that thing

please explain what you discovered.

ok. say your song uses the following sequences.

seq 1 - shakers only
seq 2 - shakers, light drums
seq 3 - shakers, bass, light drums
seq 4 - shakers, bass, heavy drums, guitar
seq 5 - same as 4
seq 6 - guitar, shakers, light drums

say you want seqs 4 and 5 to be 188 bpm (99 bpm in double res)
but you want the other seqs to lead up to it.

in my example, i'd do the following.

seq 1 - 178
seq 2 - 180
seq 3 - 182
seq 4 - 188
seq 5 - 188
seq 6 - 182

in each seq, reserve a track for "tempo change."
insert tempo changes on the 2, 4, 6, and 8. divide the difference of consecutive seq tempos (ie for 1 and 2, the difference would be 2 bpm) and stagger it over the 4 tempo changes. you can break it up further than this, but for the sake of time i'll just use 4 examples.

ie, for seq one the tempoch track would read

2.1.01: temp change 178 -> 178.4
4.1.01: temp change 178.4 -> 179.1
6.1.01: temp change 179.1 -> 179.6
8.1.01: temp change 179.6 -> 180

the result is more natural than picking a tempo and sticking with it the whole song. never will i do that again.

Tempo Change...

Aint that tha same as just changing the tempo of each sequence?
Like for instance I make one main sequence copy it five times and drop elements out of each one so it will be formatted like how u said.

Seq 1 shakers
Seq 2 shakers, light drums.. etc
Once all my sequences are set up why not just go into each sequence than just manually change the tempo?

And what do u mean by "insert tempo change" in the step edit screen?

In step edit ive seen that you can enter TEMPO but i never really understood how to use it. Care to explain? Does the 2000xl mcd have this feature?

antonym: beware if you ever convert to song because the reference tempo will be the one of the first sequence in your song, tempo changes applied in tempo EDIT mode will be maintained, but they will be applkied to the tempo of the first sequence, and the original tempo of all the other sequences will not be preserved.
I use tempo change a lot, but now I have learned to set all sequences to the same reference tempo to strat with, then insert all needed changes in the sequence as required. It is better when eventually you convert to song.

Anybody esle experienced problems with this?

BTW i posted about this issueabout tempo change some time ago already, but, as usual, I had no reply from this board.

so my comment was ignored?

Jacpot wrote:so my comment was ignored?

you dont have a 1k

freezerman wrote:BTW i posted about this issueabout tempo change some time ago already, but, as usual, I had no reply from this board.

Ahum.... http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=42954

about tempo change... no reply.
sorry for being sarcastic... my bad

seriuosly, anyone who is sleeping on this loses 3 cool points. i'm gonna bump this one more time before i allow it to vanish.

Nice sig, Ant. I knew someone was gonna grab that quote.

Antonym wrote:in each seq, reserve a track for "tempo change."

BTW there is no need to reserve a track for TEMPO change. Tempo change events are inserted on the side of MIDI tracks, and you can call up the TEMPO change events from any track in your sequence, or by highlighting the tempo field in MAIN page and hitting window.

Jacpot wrote:Tempo Change...

Aint that tha same as just changing the tempo of each sequence?
Like for instance I make one main sequence copy it five times and drop elements out of each one so it will be formatted like how u said.

Seq 1 shakers
Seq 2 shakers, light drums.. etc
Once all my sequences are set up why not just go into each sequence than just manually change the tempo?

And what do u mean by "insert tempo change" in the step edit screen?

No because that will just cause the tempo to jump from 178 in seq1 to 180 in seq2. He's talking about having the tempo get progressively faster which will sound more natural and give the track more of a build up.