I don’t believe you can. It appears to default to the tempo of the current style. There are start-up options in Preferences, Display you could experiment with; mine is to Open Previous Song but there are also Open Previous Style and do neither of those.

You could place a post in the BIAB Wishlist Forum.

A workaround would be to create an empty song as a template. Begin each new song by loading the template, which has your preferred tempo, and immediately doing a Save As. For most effectiveness, set the attribute of this file to Read Only.


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