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.
