Change Speed in a Cue

Setting the Master using Master 3.1 at 95 effectively places the master fader at 95%.

At first I thought the calculation was easy but then I realized it was non linear.

So:

100 = 240

50 = 240 / 4 = 60

25 = 240 / 16 = 15

12.5 = 240/64 = ~3.75

...

So in other works I have no idea, but there should be some way to set the BMP directly but if you type list Master 3.1 it seems to only store the fader value between 0 and 100

I believe currently a workaround is needed to set a speedmaster to a specific bpm value via commandline.

Assuming you have upgraded to the newly released v1.2, this could be a plausible solution:

1: Paste the following into commandline or create a macro, and execute once

Lua "for i=0,240 do SetVar(GlobalVars(),'bpm'..i,math.sqrt(i/240)*100) end"

2: Use the following syntax whenever you need to set a bpm-value:

Master 3.1 At $bpm95

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If you want to remove the variables that maps bpm to percentage values,

paste the following into commandline or create a macro, and execute once

Lua "for i=0,240 do DelVar(GlobalVars(),'bpm'..i) end"

Quote from Andreas

math.sqrt(i/240)*100)

Ahh, for some reason I was trying to raise it to the power of 2, no wonder it didn't work apparently I don't remember my grade 8 maths.

Don't think I need this at the moment, but it was an interesting solution

I'm taking notes for later

Could you tell me the syntax, if I want the speedmaster fader +5% via macro?

Thanks Andreas, you've always got helpful solutions.

I didn't want 240 global variables; so rewrote this slightly to calculate & set the speed master as needed

Make yourself a plugin called setBPM

local function setBPM(display_handle, bpm)
    Cmd('Master 3.1 At '..math.sqrt(bpm/240)*100)
end
return setBPM

Which can be run from a command live with: (replace 140 with your desired tempo)

Plugin setBPM '140'