Changing Tempo, Click Track and Beginning Record

[mikehallbergaudio]

Hello all, I'm a bit new to the site, but I can't seem to find other people talking about this situation, so I figured I would start a new thread. I've been working on a mashup project with a band that has several different tempo changes throughout. I have found that beginning my recording right on the tempo change often leaves me with a chopped first note, and if I want to begin recording before the tempo change, it gives me the previous click track tempo.

I suppose my question is this. Is there a way to begin recording at or before a tempo change, with the musician playing as soon as the recording starts, without chopping the beginning and also getting the proper click track tempo?

[sw rec]

Leave yourself a couple of countoff measures. You can choose to ignore them during mix when you highlight before you bounce to disc.

[Rich Breen]

The usual way to handle this is to print 2 bars of the click at the new tempo (very fast with offline commit or bounce), then back time that chunk to the downbeat (control-command-click the region), and you're off. Of course you'll need to mute the old tempo click in that area.

Many of us like to print/commit click before a session for exactly this reason; insertions at tempo changes are much easier.