Tempo

The tempo of your score can be set using text marks in one of three formats. These text marks can appear anywhere in your score. If you are setting the tempo for your entire score, it is recommended that you use a free text mark situated before the first beat of the first bar. If you wish to alter the tempo, but not have a mark appear in the published score, you can exclude the text from publishing.

The three methods of specifying tempo

You can directly specify beats per minute using text marks in the following formats:

• 100 bpm, or 100 b.p.m
• Writing a note in the textmark, followed by “ = 100”, like so:

You can also specify tempo by creating a text mark that contains one of the following expressions:

• Modifiers
• Channel Volume
• Playback