Limit - Tempo dialog box

How to get there

  1. Choose Window > Advanced Tools Palette. Choose the MIDI tool . The MIDI tool menu.
  2. Select some measures. If you’re in the MIDI tool split-window, select the region you want to affect by dragging through the "graph" display area or by selecting the handlesA small square which appears on currently "selectable" elements in the score. Handles allow you to select, edit and adjust musical elements in the score. of individual notes whose MIDI data you want to edit.
  3. Choose MIDI tool > Edit Tempo.
  4. Choose MIDI tool > Limit.

What it does

This dialog box allows you to limit the number of beats per minute to within a specified range of values.

  • Minimum of ____ • Maximum of ____. In these text boxes, enter the minimum and maximum number of beats per minute within the selected region. Any existing data values below the minimum value you specify will be boosted to that minimum value; any existing values above the maximum value will be clipped down to that maximum value.
  • OK • Cancel. Click OK to confirm, or Cancel to discard, the MIDI data changes you’ve specified. You return to the MIDI tool split-window (or the score).

Tip: Enter "0" to hear the notated values; enter positive or negative numbers to move the attack or release from the notated values.

See also:

MIDI Tool menu

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