My guide to tempo detection for a new project

So you want to start a new project with an audio file which you dont know it´s tempo though it has a fixed tempo.
Tempo detection shows something like this:


but you want to work with a fixed tempo not with this tempo track.
I know there are other ways to do it but I share my way:

1- Insert the file in the project and run Tempo detection - analize
2- Open the sample editor, zoom and move the “S” to the beggining


3- Deactivate tempo track

4- Scroll tempo in transport bar so that the tempo line places in an average tempo


5- Move the audio event so that the start (“S”) matches a bar start, with Snap to grid on.
Screenshot_8
6- Now test with metronome activated, increase or decrease tempo from transport bar to fine tune and match the event start to a bar again every time.
7- When done delete tempo and signature tracks.

It seems complicated but it takes less than a minute in real time.

EDIT: Another way that I forgot and is simpler is:
1- Insert the file in the project and run Tempo detection - analize
2- Open the sample editor, zoom and move the “S” to the beggining
3- Select the audio event: Audio-Advanced-Set definition from tempo.
Screenshot_9
4- Delete tempo and signature tracks. Adjust tempo from transport bar.

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