ProTools - Gradual tempo increase

[Ermz]

Hey guys,

Another n00b question for you. I'm operating 'tools 7.0 at an external studio here and I was wondering how do you get ProTools to create a gradual tempo shift over the course of say a bar? I know how to do this in Cubase but the process eludes me in PT.

Thanks a bunch, and sorry for cluttering the board with this crap, but I need the answer quickly if possible!

 

[::XeS::]

Do you mean a very slow glitch? If so, you have to select your track/tracks and apply Vari-Fi from Audiosuite plugins.....don't know if it could works for you.
You can also go in the tempo bar on the top of the tracks and insert manually a new tempo every little division..

 

[Ermz]

No, I mean for it to smoothly increase the session tempo from say 170 to 180 bpm over the course of a bar.

 

[Josh M.]

Just add tempo changes every crotchet beat using the add tempo button. But then again this is 7.0 so I guess it would be differnt to 8

 

[abt]

There's no accelerando that I know of. The best way I know is to export midi from a score editor like sibelius. It creates a whole heap of small tempo changes. I'd love to know a better way. I don't uses it much for metal but classical it's like every bar has some sort of rit, accel, rubato, it's a total pain if you need to make changes in PT after importing a tempo map. I think you can expand the tempo ruler then draw with the pencil but I'm not sure if it does subdivision tempo changes or just at every bar.

 

[Joshua Wickman]

If you open the tempo editor and choose the line tool you can draw a line from 170-180 over a bar. This is how i do slow downs and stuff in protools when a part will gradually get slower.

 

[Ermz]

Thanks guys.

 

[BLUElightCory]

You can also program in a linear (or other-shaped) tempo change using the Tempo Operations window (you can bring it up under "Events").

 

[jval]

select the first to the last bar where you want the tempo change to be. Then as said above, go events > tempo operations and you have a bunch of options there.