I just followed my own instructions, and when I saved and reloaded the session it was fine, just as you found.
However, if I save the file, shut qtractor down, then restart it and load the file in, the data is corrupted as I reported previously. I saved the file again under a new name, and did 'diff' on the 2 files. I attach an image of what diff produced.
Clearly the two files ought to be the same. But they are not. The altered basic tempo is clearly shown. I don't pretend to understand why the automation appears in the wrong place, but presumably it is something to do with the tempo having been improperly changed at some point. If I had changed the bar 1 tempo from 120 to 176 myself in qtractor, I think the automation would still be in the right place. But somehow, something seems to be going wrong in reloading the file after shutting down and reopening qtractor.
"Mysteriouser and mysteriouser!"
I just followed my own instructions, and when I saved and reloaded the session it was fine, just as you found.
However, if I save the file, shut qtractor down, then restart it and load the file in, the data is corrupted as I reported previously. I saved the file again under a new name, and did 'diff' on the 2 files. I attach an image of what diff produced.
Clearly the two files ought to be the same. But they are not. The altered basic tempo is clearly shown. I don't pretend to understand why the automation appears in the wrong place, but presumably it is something to do with the tempo having been improperly changed at some point. If I had changed the bar 1 tempo from 120 to 176 myself in qtractor, I think the automation would still be in the right place. But somehow, something seems to be going wrong in reloading the file after shutting down and reopening qtractor.