Another way to control the tempo is to use an NTempo staff, as demonstrated in the following YouTube video using two of the instruments from another YouTube video I did earlier this morning, albeit with a bit of editing on the guitar line, since the original guitar line was "composed" by clicking quickly on blank sheet music in Digital Performer 8 "QuickScribe" and then adjusted in the Digital Performer 8 "MIDI Editor" to put the piano roll bars in a "curvy" pattern, so other than the fact that the people of this planet--myself included--cannot do anything truly random, it was a bit random . . .
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NOTE: The conscious mind usually has few if any clues, but this is where the unconscious mind comes into play for composing in real-time on the fly . . . ]
Occasionally, I actually know what I am doing in advance, but most of the time I just put a bunch of notes on the blank sheet music in NOTION 4 and then listen to it and adjust it "by ear" until it sounds good, which is fabulous . . .
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NOTE: The rhythm pattern repeats, so the ideal way to do it is to discover how to do it with music notation, but at present this is not so easy for me to do. The benefit of doing it with music notation is that this makes it easier to adjust the repeat time for the echo units. The idea is there, and it is straightforward . . . ]
NOTION 4 NTempo Example ~ YouTube videoFabulous! In the NOTION 4 User Guide, the NTempo staff usually is shown with notes, but it works without notes . . .
As best as I can guess, the notes on an NTempo staff are added for conducting or as an additional set of visual cues . . .
Lots of FUN! 
P. S. I do everything primarily "by ear", and playing syncopated rhythms is easy for me when I doing it with a real instrument, but doing syncopated rhythms with music notation is not so easy, although it is beginning to make a bit more sense . . .
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 11:22 am