What tempo do u guys generally go with?

i started out generally with 80bpm and would work with 4 bar segments
between 60bpm and 100bpm is what almost all my beats were

now after watching some videos of chuck inglish i decided to try out 140bpm
and it is working nicely but not for soul samples at all - also due to it being
almost twice as fast as my old beats i changed 4 bars to 8 bars

so im just seein what u guys work with cuz i dont know anyone else that has a mpc or hardware - just flstudio n reason type shit

77-79 82, 84- 86, 87 ( really like 87 for soul) 90-93 ( 93 9th wonder uses alot) when i started i was stuck on 97, mostly do 90-93. 64 to me seems to be the main comercial speed.

Everything between 78- and 130bpm.
Have my sequence template set at 92. Most are between 88- and 100bpm.

usually 82-92 , i have never been any lower/higher

who cares, do u man! do a beat at 150 if u have to lol. but for me, 80-100.

MegaTON wrote:so im just seein what u guys work with cuz i dont know anyone else that has a mpc or hardware - just flstudio n reason type shit

Why would tempo be any different in software?

between 86 & 97

60-100 BPM
I have to say that tempo rate usualy depends on sample.

Yeah it does depend on the sample. Between 77-98 for me.

a while back i was going through a 100/200 faze... lately I have been doing 80/160 because if the types of stuff I have been making... and there are also moments of 75/150. Often songs have some patterns at for example 80 bpm layered with patterns at 160.

ish, del

92.3 bpm... all other tempos color your samples.

Foxtrot and bossanova style for me 47.4BPM

80 to 102, usually around 88 ish

NearTao wrote:92.3 bpm... all other tempos color your samples.

I tried that today and you're right... I never realized what I was doing wrong. Have you tried 92.340 bpm? It isn't as clean as 92.3 but it gives it that swing.