tempo map creation tool?

[algemacmetro]

it would be great if you had a tool that would allow you to record in real-time (with no click or other time reference), then let you to build a tempo / time signature map in reference to what you played live.

all you'd need to do is designate markers where you want each bar to start. or each quarter note, etc...

then, your song will follow YOUR feel. not the other way around. plus you can then sequence other midi or audio parts to lock in with your new tempo map and apply quantization to based on the tempo track, etc...

also, it would be cool if you could then do the reverse and quantize your audio to fit your tempo map. unlimited possibilites...

another common sense feature the big boys never implemented...

[Jerm]

True. This makes sense.

It is what Tap Tempo is supposed to do but perhaps not quite as well as it should. Have you tried turning on tempo in record criteria and using tap tempo while recording?

[algemacmetro]

that could be one way of doing it... but it would be really great to simply play audio (or dump audio from dat or adat) into the sequencer and be able to quickly and easily build a tempo map based on the pre-recorded audio.

it seems like it would be pretty simple: create a way to match up barlines in a tempo map to specific midi notes.

maybe something like a time-locked midi track where you can tap quarter notes (or bar markers) along with your pre-recorded audio. then afterwards, you can select which midi notes (or bar markers) you want to be the new barlines for your tempo map. voila - a natural feeling tempo map that conforms to YOUR playing. stale click tracks be damned

better yet, you could take an audio track (a drum track would be perfect) and perform a slicing function based on the waveform's amplitude (similar to what recycle and cubase do with hitpoints), then select which of those slices would be the basis for your barlines and generate a tempo map for your song. you could also do this with midi tracks. and something else that would be great is to add a smoothing function so that the tempo changes between bars would be gradual and not coarse or jerky sounding.

this would be a godsend. i've wished for a long time that someone would add this type of feature to a sequencer. it would save so much time and be so much more intuitive.

...i think this and omf file compatibility would get a lot of users of other sequencers to switch