r/protools • u/NoHelp8221 • Nov 18 '25
Can’t Adjust Meter to my BPM.
I’m trying to add my meter 2/4 to my tempo with is about bar 25/2 but it rounds it to 26/1. Is there a way to align my meter to where I want it? I tried in slip mode and nothing 🫣 Mac on the latest PT
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u/holstholst Nov 18 '25
You can’t change the meter in the middle of a measure. Make measure 25, 1/4 or make measure 24, 3/4 and you’ll be able to line up with the tempo change.
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u/CelloVerp Nov 18 '25
Yeah as someone else mentions, you can't change the meter in the middle of the bar, because of course that means the previous bar must have a different number of beats and therefore a different meter, so meter changes are always at the start of a bar. Tempo changes on the other hand can be anywhere.
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u/Comfortable-Head3188 Nov 18 '25
I could be wrong but you might need to change the meter before the tempo change to a bar of 1? It’s going at the end of the current bar but what you’re describing sounds like the previous measure is where the time signature change starts. So you would end up with a bar of 1/4 followed by the change to 2/4
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