Click on the Control Bar’s KEY switch to enter Key Map Mode then select the Tap button press the key you would like to use for tapping click the KEY switch again to leave Key Map Mode. You can also assign the Tap button to a computer key instead of using the mouse. As you click the Control Bar’s Tap Tempo button once every beat, the tempo of the Live Set will follow your tapping. You can use Live’s Tap Tempo function to set the tempo at any time. Please refer to the chapter on synchronization (see ‘Synchronizing with Link, Tempo Follower, and MIDI’) for details. The respective settings are made in the Link/Tempo/MIDI Preferences. You can have an external sequencer (or drum machine) play along with Live or have Live play along with the sequencer. Setting one knob to control coarse tempo in BPM and another to control fine tempo in hundredths of a BPM allows for enough precision to adjust to live performers or other unsynchronized sources. For maximum tempo control during performance, you can MIDI map (see ‘MIDI and Key Remote Control’) separate controllers to the Tempo field on both sides of the decimal point. You can even automate the tempo (see ‘Editing the Tempo Automation’) to create smooth or sudden tempo changes along the song timeline.

The Control Bar’s Tempo field allows you to change the playback tempo of your Live Set at any time, in real time. Mixing and matching audio from different origins is therefore extremely easy. This happens without affecting the pitch, which can be changed independently. Live is capable of time-warping samples while streaming them from disk so as to synchronize them to the current Live Set’s tempo. Unlike music stored on tape or in a traditional digital audio workstation, the music in Live remains “elastic“ at all times.

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