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Saving tempo change permanently for export

I have searched the site, and the latest response was a few years ago, that this might be handled in future updates, but it does not seem to have been fixed. I want to slow down the tempo, then export the midi file to burn to CD. So, I adjust the tempo, and save it "permanently" in the dialog box. But when I export it as a .midi, the tempo reverts to the previous. Has any one found a way around this? I want to burn a CD at slow speed so I can practice my instrument to learn the song>

Re: Saving tempo change permanently for export

Howdy friends,

Stephen also contacted me at the Helpdesk where I responded to him. I'll post that reply here, in case anyone else has run into the same issue and the answer helps you as well.

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There are a couple of things that might be going on here.

1. When you double-click the tempo button to bring up the Tempo dialog, please make sure that the measure range is for the whole song. If you've played partially through a song and click on the Tempo button to bring up the Tempo dialog, the beginning of the range will be where you stopped, and so any editing only affects the range of measures (beginning with the point you're at) in the boxes at the bottom.

2. If you're exporting a .mid file, make sure that it has a different name than the original .mid file you started with. I've had customers who were saving the newly edited .mid file with the same name as the original, and then mistakenly using the original file in another player, and wondering what happened to their edits :)

ttfn,
Sherry