Tempo Detect?

is there an easy way i can get the exact tempo/bpm of something i sample?

whether it be breaks, or some flute samples?

secondly, if so, or when i get the tempo, can someone explain how i can change the tempo with just entering the tempo i want it to become? i have experimented with it, but can't figure it out.

A bit of step by step procedure would be real beneficial!
thanks.

Dude...you might get flamed becuase this is a beginners type question.
Seeing as I'm only a beginner too I will take it easy on you.

You got options...

1) In the MPC, auto detect tempo by going to (Trim, Edit, Timestretch, Tempo-Auto) then you can time stretch or use patched phrase.

2) Use a software program (of which there are many....Recycle, Soundforge, Audacity) to do tempo detect and temp adjust.

I suggest you get the MPC tutorial book, for $30 it will save you a lot of hassle.

assign it to a pad, then trigger it on the main screen from the pad, while your sample is playing tap the note repeat button on mpc in time with the sample, watch the tempo it should adjust after about 4 taps. Record sample with the click You may need to do a lil tweaking to tempo to get it just right.

Tap tempo sucks

There is a sample calculator on the internet, which will calculate it by the number of samples.

this is a good utility for calculating tempo of tracks:

http://www.analogx.com/CONTENTS/downloa ... ptempo.htm

just download it, run it, and tap the space bar in time to the music (1/2/3/4), and you'll get a good estimate.

Tap tempo button on the MPC does the same thing but is slightly less accurate...

primebeatz wrote:Tap tempo sucks

Doubt that I use it daily. The "auto-detect" is what sucks.


Try Sony or S.F. Acid's "Beatmapper Wizard" on your cpu. (Comes w/ any version of Acid 3 or newer.)
If I am using my cpu for a beat that is what I go to.
I sample directly into the MPC & use the "tap tempo" allot also.

To each its own & not many songs stay 1 solid tempo all the way to the end.
Sometimes you get lucky if the track has an electronic type beat.
If it is a band & a live drummer setting the tempo, I end up setting a different tempo for each part I use.

There really is no magic bullet for you, but technology has made things easier compared to me using my old ASR.
Every beat I did on that thing was like 87.6 bpm & never was perfect.
No tempo matching, no chopping, & sometimes I still miss it.

i just downloaded audacity for mac. i remember back in the day when i had a pc, i could use a simple detect tempo on that.

i cant seem to find that option on this mac version though.

is anybody familiar with it? or know where it is?

thanks.

It's just like dropping an accapella track over an instrumental. Does anybody still do that or what.... From my experience I never ran a sample or accapella or whatever through a program to find out it's tempo to match it up to another beat. You play it and see if it sounds good. If you can mix records half decent you'll know it's either too fast or too slow. That simple.

just fine tune it till it fits. i use ableton now along side my mp, so it doesnt bother me anymore, even audition sample from the browser they play locked in time to the midi clock. now thats dope.

If you've cut the sample right, you can use an AUDIO Track to see if the tempo is right inside GRID edit. If you have a 2 bar Loop, just record it in a sequence and have a look at the waveform in grid edit and change the bpm until there's no gap between the end of the sample and the end of the sequence.

yeh that reminds me of the warp markers in ableton. nifty feature!!

dude, i use recycle to do what you wanna do...

1>trim sample till it loops right
2>look at the tempo
3>adjust the tempo to what you want
4>add some 'stretch' if your slowin down the sample..

if your tryin to drastically change duration without changing pitch , i suggest that the best program for that is melodyne. for easier results, i would suggest prosonic timefacory or another program that licenses the mpex algorithm..

cheers

everybody got a diff answer & that is what i love about music.
what 1 dude says sucks is 1 of my favorites.
everybody got there own software & tricks mastered 2.