Top Tempo Rappin Daw's

[THE INTRANCER]

Well, I thought mapping sounded kinda boring, but yeah... I'm talkin mappin...

Anyway... tempo mapping control, isn't something new... in fact I remember back on the old Amiga where in Octamed during the 1990's, it was just a scrolling value...but like many of us here.. it's probably not a method which is commonly used now.. for most people. The tempo mapping itself, is probably something that is generally ignored for some people. Perhaps some people don't know how to use it effectively enough, or really delved into situations where they could actually use it to their advantage or perhaps maybe, it's only really suited to specific types of music... classical / orchestral for example...
For myself, I can only recall one specific track where I had used the global tempo system within the music production software I was using to any significant degree...and that was with about a 20 BPM increase, this was in Studio One 2.... in this old track I did 3 years ago.

https://soundcloud.com/scott-moncrieff- ... eyond-fear

In any case, over the past few days, I've been looking at various DAW's out there, and how they compare when it comes to how they handle tempo mapping, I have a list of four in particular... but I'll let you first highlight those you think are worth mentioning and those of which you prefer....

It's not a subject I see discussed very often, other than when it's something people really want more from their DAW's.. in their list of demands... but why is this ? This is just one question, out of many other's I've highlighted here...

[Tj Shredder]

I would mention logic...
Btw, you can edit the thread title, rappers don‘t want to be mapped...

[pdxindy]

I would mention logic...

+1

[lfm]

About varying tempo over a track - one thing that is really important is to get metronome that fits time signature and tempo where ever you are.

In this case Digital Performer since long and now Cubase 9.5 has this.

You create your own patterns with both of those.

I struggled a couple of weeks ago with Cubase and the tools to adjust tempo to already recorded stuff. There I found Time Warp really cool doing this. A certain position in time is aligned with tempo grid just by drag-n-drop.

There are a bunch of tools that is said to create tempo if having a track that is good enough for that purpose, rather rhythmic stuff only. But never used that so far.

Another I used seemed buggy and that was Process Tempo. and there are tools to automatically create a tempo ramp to a certain position - but have not tried that yet.

[THE INTRANCER]

About varying tempo over a track - one thing that is really important is to get metronome that fits time signature and tempo where ever you are.

In this case Digital Performer since long and now Cubase 9.5 has this.

You create your own patterns with both of those.

I struggled a couple of weeks ago with Cubase and the tools to adjust tempo to already recorded stuff. There I found Time Warp really cool doing this. A certain position in time is aligned with tempo grid just by drag-n-drop.

There are a bunch of tools that is said to create tempo if having a track that is good enough for that purpose, rather rhythmic stuff only. But never used that so far.

Another I used seemed buggy and that was Process Tempo. and there are tools to automatically create a tempo ramp to a certain position - but have not tried that yet.

I tried out Digital Performer about 6 months ago, but uninstalled it not long after, however I did try out the Cubase 9.5 demo of which has just expired in the past few days but I did check out the tempo drawing functionality before it did. I was surprised by how restricted it was despite having vector point functionality...Limited to the pencil tool, feeling pretty wishy washy like some other daws thus hard to get a precise placement.. if there was time warp feature, I didn't discover it in the trial version.

Generally I stick to 4/4 time signatures but I have a track called Zero Hour Day - Zero Hour Night, on my soundcloud playlist which is a 3/4 signature, but there is no global tempo mapping there. Metronome's in daws and even that of hardware, is linked to the tempo settings, and thus the time signature would be dependent on that, whilst one would hope that any of these changes would be reflected on the daw in a visual way as well.

So that's one out of the four on the list I've tried, that being Cubase. There are others which I feel are better on my list of others but I'll come to those later.

[LawrenceF]

I struggled a couple of weeks ago with Cubase and the tools to adjust tempo to already recorded stuff. There I found Time Warp really cool doing this. A certain position in time is aligned with tempo grid just by drag-n-drop.

That's a great feature that I missed from Cubase. Studio One does it now in Beat Linear mode, which makes manual tempo mapping much easier. But yeah, Cubase Time Warp was years ahead of it's time, no pun intended.

[pdxindy]

Logic can now take an audio or midi part (played without the metronome) and map the tempo from it. That tempo map in the clip can then be applied to the global tempo track. You can also make some manual adjustments as needed. Tempo mapping from Midi clips was just added in 10.4.2 so haven't tried it yet