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| epitage |
I've always been a fan of house, trance, etc.
Recently, I've gotten into app designing. My first and latest one is a BPM calculator app for Android.
Link: BPM Gauge
I was hoping that some experienced users could give it a try and see if it's worth a damn or if I should just scrap it. Thanks. |
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| Sushipunk |
| Not to discourage you, but how many people do you reckon are out and about and suddenly think to themselves "Damn, I really wish I knew the exact BPM count of this song playing"? |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| i use them at raves to know how much speed to take. |
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| Adam420 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
Not to discourage you, but how many people do you reckon are out and about and suddenly think to themselves "Damn, I really wish I knew the exact BPM count of this song playing"? |
It's for DJs? Specifically ones playing vinyl? Can't see any other use for it. |
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| FuzzQi |
| do you even supersaw |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| I have a BPM counter. Mixmeister give away a free one, it goes to two decimal places. It's like the BPM equivalent of Mixed In Key. Very handy. All BPM counters, whether they're stand-alone or part of DJing software, tend to suck at analysing drum 'n bass though. They seem to give up and label tracks at 113bpm. |
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| Lira |
Actually, this can be quite handy:- When you're on a date and you check the average speed of the word spoken by your date. Imagine your love interest is rapping, and try to think of a beat playing on the background sync'd with the words. If the rhythm goes +10% faster than usual, excitement is in the air! If they come to a halt, either you've managed to make your date speechless... or they're dead.
- When you're thinking of a super duper track in your head, and you want it to be your next production, but you don't even know how fast it's supposed to be, tap along with your thoughts, and you should get at least the speed right.
- Use it to count Brazilian Police Departments:
- Use it when software fails to provide you the actual tempo of a drum'n'bass track. Happens way more often than you'd imagine!
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| FuzzQi |
| I've always wondered, how do BPM analysers handle songs with irregular pauses, or bits where they speed up / slow down /, or have completely different sections? |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I have a BPM counter. |
Do you use it much? Honest question.
And is it a mobile app? |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
Do you use it much? Honest question.
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Yeah, I use it all the time. I run the BPM analyser and Mixed In Key over just about every track I DJ with these days. It helps come up with ideas of what tracks mix together really well, and to plan out mixes of course.
| quote: | Originally posted by FuzzQi
I've always wondered, how do BPM analysers handle songs with irregular pauses, or bits where they speed up / slow down /, or have completely different sections? |
They don't, they absolutely die on their arse when confronted by anything like that.. I think they will attempt to find the longest continual steady tempo and give that as the value, but even that is often wrong. |
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| Trance-MB |
I started to mess around with Mixmeister, it calculates all BMP's of the tracks in your library automatically. Just took me a while before I noticed this takes some time initially if you add many tracks at once.
I don't see a need for an app personally, think I have an old program somewhere which I only tried once. But I'm not much of a DJ although I have DJ-ed in the past. |
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| netroM |
Paul van Dyk has already made one. And his has a virtual glowstick! |
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