[LAU] Synchronization of audio with MIDI file

[david]

On 06/15/2013 11:02 PM, Asa Marco wrote:
> Il giorno Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:41:07 -1000
> david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> ha scritto:
>
>> On 06/14/2013 10:50 PM, Asa Marco wrote:
>>> Il giorno Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:07:56 -1000
>>> david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> ha scritto:
>>>>>
>>>>> Isn't there something that allows to set MIDI tempo by tapping on
>>>>> keyboard? I'm sure to have used that method  once to pair recorded
>>>>> audio and MIDI, but maybe I was using a software on windows.
>>>>
>>>> Rosegarden has that feature, but I think the recommendations for
>>>> Ardour3 would be better ones to take.
>>>
>>> Thank you David, I didn't know of that. But since Rosegarden set
>>> tempo only one point at the time, I recognize that is umpractical
>>> to set precisely "accelerando" or "ritardando" in this way.
>>>
>>> The approach of, for example, Finale is better for this purpose,
>>> i.e. to change time continuosly while tapping.
>>>
>>> http://www.finalemusic.com/usermanuals/finale2012win/content/finale/TempoTap.htm
>>
>> I think that's what Rosegarden does, too. At least it mentions using
>> tapping to vary the tempo to match tempo changes within a 1-meaure
>> long audio loop. Sounds like doing accelerando and ritardando:
>>
>> http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/doc/en/segment-view-tempo-timesig.html
>
> You're right, Composition->Set Tempos from Beat Segment does exactly
> what I intended, this function isn't mentioned in the wiki manual and I
> missed it. Thank you for pointing me to the official documentation!

You're welcome!

> I think this method is faster than edit manually each MIDI note.

To me not just faster, but much more intuitive to me. Putting in numbers 
to change tempo et al for these situations just doesn't seem natural to me.

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