# Questions about tempo markers and snapping to bars

**URL:** <https://qa.fmod.com/t/questions-about-tempo-markers-and-snapping-to-bars/11290>\
**Category:** FMOD Studio\
**Created:** [February 11, 2014, 1:58pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/questions-about-tempo-markers-and-snapping-to-bars/11290 "2014-02-11T13:58:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![ninomojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@ninomojo](https://qa.fmod.com/u/ninomojo)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 1:58pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/questions-about-tempo-markers-and-snapping-to-bars/11290/1 "2014-02-11T13:58:14Z")

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Hello there,

I’m working with music tracks and, as was pointed out to me in another thread, adding a tempo marker on the timeline made the timeline switch to bars rather than time. Great!

But I’m running into problems:

- It seems I can’t edit the signature at a given tempo marker. The default is 4/4 while my piece is in 6/4, so it screws up the bar count, and makes it impractical for me to correctly place musical cues on the timeline.

- I would like the music to slow down on the last bar of certain parts, in order to make it breathe. In Cubase this is done by drawing a envelope going down on the tempo track. I don’t suppose there’s a way to do that here, and I suppose placing a new, slower tempo marker on each beat of the slowing down bar by hand could help me there, but I find this solution not too elegant.

Anyway, if I missed something or if there are ways I’m unaware of to help me, I’d much appreciate the help. Thank you!

Romain

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**Author:** ![raymond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c57346/32.png) [@raymond](https://qa.fmod.com/u/raymond)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 4:13am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/questions-about-tempo-markers-and-snapping-to-bars/11290/2 "2014-02-28T04:13:56Z")

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Hi Romain,

We’ll be introducing arbitrary time signatures in 1.3 (soon to be released).

Unfortunately tempo automation is a little way off, though you will be able to use that multiple tempo marker workaround you suggested.

We’re planning to have a bunch of new music features this year so please keep an eye on our releases 🙂