User Manual
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At some point you may want to save the tempos you use in NTempo when you perform a score. With the Tempo Overdub
feature you can easily capture the tempos in a performance and, if you want, further edit your tempos throughout the
score (at any time afterwards).
This feature is optional, intended for users that want more realistic, human-sounding playback (as opposed to producing a
score for live musicians to interpret). When you tweak tempos in a score to make them more human (varied), you can
wind up with an overabundance of metronome marks. Tempo Overdub not only reduces the need for so many
metronome marks, it is faster to use and more precise.
NOTE: Tempo Overdub can be confused with Velocity Overdub. Just as you can go back to a le and edit performed
tempos with Tempo Overdub, you can go back to a le and edit the velocity (loudness) of each note with Velocity
Overdub.
Capture Performance
There are two requirements before you can begin this feature: you must have an NTempo sta already in your score and
you must be in Edit mode. After this, you:
1. Click with the Pointer on any instrument at the beat where you want the performance recording to start.
» The editing marker extends on this beat across the staves in the system.
2. Click the Tempo Overdub button in the Transport.
» A blue bar highlights the NTempo sta and the green playback marker identies the beginning beat of the
tempo capture.
◙ Blue highlight over the NTempo staff.
3. Perform through the score.
4. When the score ends, or you press Enter, the tempo capture ends.
» Notion indicates your tempo changes as ball-and-line marks over the NTempo sta.
◙ Ball and line marks over NTempo notes.
The horizontal line indicates the intended tempo as marked in the score. The round ball indicates a percentage
faster (above the line) or slower (below the line) your tempo was in relation to the intended tempo. Of course, a ball
right on the horizontal line shows you played right at the intended tempo.
Tempo Overdub