Following on my previous post, here's what a tempo map for a rubato performance looks like. The recording was real time without a click, and the tempo map was made by setting every eighth triplet using Set Measure/Beat At Now. Note how that tempos increase and decrease in a periodic way (what goes up must come down). The flat line is where the piece moves into a steady tempo, and I could just set a fixed tempo for those several measures until it changes again to follow a quickie rubato ending I