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Anna Lakatos
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Anna Lakatos is a UK based Ableton Certified Trainer, Producer, Audio Engineer, and Educator. She is also a University Lecturer, Ableton Live Module Leader and Course Developer; teaching on degree programmes such as  BA(Hons) Music Production and Sound Engineering, Music Production and DJ Practice. She has featured in popular music magazines, has facilitated workshops, masterclasses, webinars as well as created content for companies like Ableton, Native Instruments, ADAM Audio, Future Music Magazine and more.
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Tempo and time signature changes

In this section, we are going to discover how we can automate the session tempo as well as how to implement time signature changes.

Implementing tempo changes

This can be useful if you would like a section of your song to speed up or slow down at some point. It can provide some real contrast to your song, or can be useful you are recording various tracks into the same project with different song tempos.

Let’s check out how we can implement tempo changes into our project by automating the song tempo!

  1. Open the Chapter 11 project (I already applied some automation and modulation for inspiration in this project, so feel free to work around these or delete them).
  2. Navigate to the Arrangement View.
  3. Navigate to the Master track.
  4. To be able to automate any parameters, we need to enable Automation Mode, by pressing the Automation Mode button or using the hotkey A.
Figure 11.1 – The Automation Mode button

Figure 11.1 – The Automation...

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Anna Lakatos

Anna Lakatos is a UK based Ableton Certified Trainer, Producer, Audio Engineer, and Educator. She is also a University Lecturer, Ableton Live Module Leader and Course Developer; teaching on degree programmes such as  BA(Hons) Music Production and Sound Engineering, Music Production and DJ Practice. She has featured in popular music magazines, has facilitated workshops, masterclasses, webinars as well as created content for companies like Ableton, Native Instruments, ADAM Audio, Future Music Magazine and more.
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