Thanks Wombat, that is my idea also, start slow and build up to normal tempo in increments.

I see no place where the number of increments can be set, or the amount of increase per increment . The two numbers you can specify are:

1. "Woodshed tempo by (default = 0 BPM) . . . "
2. "Maximum total tempo . . "

I don't see how that determines

1. Start tempo
2. number of increments
3. increase per increment

. . . or if it's even supposed to. Apparently "to woodshed" doesn't have a settled meaning, so perhaps the reason I can't do what I want is that that wasn't the intended purpose. Actually I didn't know it was a verb.