MIDI and tempo maps

[JGuth]

print the midi as audio, then align beats to the audio, then quantize the midi notes back to the new grid.

[cakes]

Hi folks,

If I have a MIDI track with a ritard in it, is there a way for me to create a tempo map that mimics the ritard, without moving the MIDI notes around? In other words, I want to be able to use Identify Beat to say, "Bar 25 starts here", "Bar 26 starts here", etc. according to how the ritard slows down - but right now, after I do Identify Beat, the MIDI notes move around to conform to the "new" tempo. I want the MIDI notes to stay where they are.

I guess another way of saying this is that I want the MIDI notes to lock to absolute time instead of bars and beats, so that I can change where the bars and beats are without the notes moving around. Is this possible?