Ableton/Live/UG/09 Audio Clips Tempo and Warping/01 Tempo/04 Clip Tempo Followers and Leaders
- Warped clips follow the Set's tempo by default. In Arrangement View, the Lead/Follow toggle in Audio Utilities makes a clip a tempo leader: the Set follows the clip's Warp Markers and the tempo field is disabled.
- Many clips can lead, but only one sets the tempo at a time: the playing clip on the lowest track.
- Live writes read-only tempo automation on the Main track, which moves with the leader clips. Unfollow Tempo Automation in the tempo field's context menu turns all leaders into followers and makes the automation editable.
- Leader automation overrides Tempo Follower. With EXT on, Lead/Follow is disabled.