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Chapter 9
Tempo Control and Warping
Unlike music stored on tape or in a traditional digital audio workstation, the music in Live
remains elastic at all times. Live is capable of time-warping samples while streaming them
from disk so as to synchronize them to the current Live Set's tempo. This happens without
affecting the pitch, which can be changed independently. Mixing and matching audio from
different origins is therefore extremely easy.
9.1 Tempo
9.1.1 Setting the Tempo
The Control Bar's Tempo
Field.
The Control Bar's Tempo eld allows you to change the playback tempo of your Live Set
at any time, in real time. You can even automate the tempo to create smooth or sudden
tempo changes along the song timeline. For maximum tempo control during performance,
you can MIDI map separate controllers to the Tempo eld on both sides of the decimal
point. Setting one knob to control coarse tempo in BPM and another to control ne tempo
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