FL Studio 10 help with Tempo

[Flinckie]

I'm trying to change the tempo of a part of my composition while the tempo of the rest stays unaffected. How do I do this?

[Expy]

Whoa, really? I'm interested as to why you want this... I'm not sure if this is possible to do with MIDI scores, which I'm going to assume you're using. It may be, but here's what I would suggest.

You could bounce the track to audio, then cut out the section you want to be at a different tempo and stretch it for that (right click on the 'time' knob in the channel settings to directly set the tempo of a audio clip). Unless you're playing the track at half- or double-time it's probably not going to turn out well though... Of course, if you're playing it at half/double-time, you could always just half/double your MIDI pattern.

EDIT: I just realised this is sort of unreadable and probably quite confusing. If you want reiteration on some points, feel free to ask.

[colortwelve]

You can make automation clips for tempo in FLS.

[Flinckie]

Whoa, really? I'm interested as to why you want this... I'm not sure if this is possible to do with MIDI scores, which I'm going to assume you're using. It may be, but here's what I would suggest.

You could bounce the track to audio, then cut out the section you want to be at a different tempo and stretch it for that (right click on the 'time' knob in the channel settings to directly set the tempo of a audio clip). Unless you're playing the track at half- or double-time it's probably not going to turn out well though... Of course, if you're playing it at half/double-time, you could always just half/double your MIDI pattern.

EDIT: I just realised this is sort of unreadable and probably quite confusing. If you want reiteration on some points, feel free to ask.

I think I got the gist of it. But seriously though, take a look at Glaze's Nightmare Night piano intro MIDI. The BPM in it varies from 12 to 200. I have no idea how he did that, but this would be really, really useful.

And yes, I'm using MIDI scores.

[Legion]

You can make automation clips for tempo in FLS.

This is what glaze did with nightmare night. Right click tempo > create automation clip > go crazy

[Flinckie]

go crazy

[Trillionage]

If you want to change the Tempo of the pattern manually you can right click tempo, select edit events and change it there. It has no numbers for the tempo so it will trial and error.

[Freewave]

Fyi I was doing a track where i started with a 120 bpm midi and then changed the audio clips to 130 through acid and through FL (go to tempo and then automation clip at the bpm you pick) but FL kept reverting my audio clips to 120 midway while it was playing at a particular point over and over. After 2 weeks of pulling my hair out i got it fixed by slicing my patterns AT that point and from then on everything stayed at the tempo i created with my automation clip. If something like that happens i hope my advice will help as it was frustrating. Using Acid for audio clip tempo changes is a great idea if you want to keep your pitch the same but change a tempo (obviously increasing tempo will sound better than decreasing it)

[Legion]

go crazy

[Ed Viper]

go crazy

I laughed way harder at that than I should have.