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Determining Beats per Minute
 
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0. PostPosted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 12:05 am    Post subject: Determining Beats per Minute Reply with quote

Given some mp3... how would you determine the Beats per Minute?

Is there an application that can do that?
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1. PostPosted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 12:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some do, but they's 'spensive. Traktor does a good job, but it's still not 100% unfortunately. You can pick up a free demo somewhere I think... MJ studio also does this, but I have no idea if it's still available for free or not. Look for it though.
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2. PostPosted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 1:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Use XSteps. It's free, and it's fairly accurate if you take your time making multiple trials. Even when it's off, it's only off by 1-2 BPM, so you can easily adjust that (if you're using SM to make the files).

XSteps is terrible at finding gaps though - my suggestion would be to count beyond the starting point - that is, count beyond the first beat, and let's say you count 2 full bars of notes before you take the inital gap. then all you have to do is subtract the time for the 2 bars from the inital gap (8/BPM*60).
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3. PostPosted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 6:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Or get CoolEdit, and use it's Edit Tempo function to determine the BPM to a fairly precice measurement, and touch it up right in the program (and CoolEdit also gives you a decent gap value to use as well, just add 20 and go).
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4. PostPosted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 6:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

just do a google search fo winbpm, and use that, it gives a really accurate reading after about a minute.
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5. PostPosted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 11:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't personally like winBPM, it's very prone to human error. If you feel like throwing down a few hundred dollars, both American DJ and Gemini make rack equipment BPM counters. I don't know how reliable they are, but oh well. It's yet another way.
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