I have a project in which a ritardando is actually speeding up. It’s quite a bit more obvious in my full project but is still demonstrated in the cut-down one below.
It seems I can fix the behaviour by removing the fermata in bar 2.
Thoughts?
Gradual tempo error.dorico (1.4 MB)
At the rit: beat 2 of bar 4.
It’s not indicated in the tempo map but still happens.
Odd indeed, and definitely not what the tempo lane automation shows - it definitely leaps up to something like 170 bpm suddenly and back down. I thought to maybe just wiggle the automation points down and then back to where they were and it seems to have fixed it. Ghost in the machine?
Gradual tempo error fix.dorico (1.3 MB)
Hi @DanielMuzMurray,
quite an odd behaviour indeed. It seems that the fermata makes the rit. forget what is the tempo corresponding to the fermata bar (q=80) in playback (even if in the key editor all looks ok), and seems instead to be influenced by the tempo set before the fermata:
I tried setting the first tempo Fanfare to q=300 and the rit. starts even faster!
If you set the Fanfare tempo to q=80, the rit. works as expected.
Two ways to correct this (beside the suggestions above) is to reiterate the q=80 after the fermata (you can then deactivate its visibility), or set the initial tempo for the rit. to 80
