Originally Posted By: MarioD
IMHO the best way to do tempo changes is with a DAW as you will get a much smoother tempo transition. If you are working with RTs your DAW must have time stretching abilities.


I agree with your point that a DAW will create the smoothest tempo transition. Steve made the same point above and also shared a sample from one of his songs that demonstrated how a DAW will spread the tempo transition evenly across all of the notes in the measures that are affected by the tempo change. While this technique may be preferable in many if not most tempo change situations, I don't think it's the best technique for me to use on the tempo transition in my song.

Since my last comment above, I've done a lot of additional experimenting with different ways to increase the tempo from 100 bpm to 120 bpm over four or five measures but wasn't able to create a transition that I liked better than the one in the demo (#4) that I shared in my previous comment. So, I've decided to stick with that one. The transition back to 100 bpm at the end of the bridge has been more of a challenge because of its abruptness. But I was able to find a way to do this elegantly as well, thanks to the suggestion and example that Herb provided in his comment. In my reply below to Herb, I'll be sharing a link to the the latest demo (#5) I created that has a much better transition at the end of the bridge than my previous demo (#4) has.

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