Beat detection program?

[zorrow]

Hey guys! I'm trying to play some solos on top of a background which is quite noisy and I'm getting rhythmically disoriented.

I would like to sync my playing to a click, but I have no idea what's the exact BPM. Is there any free software that would reliably dectet the BPM?

Thanks in advance!

[zorrow]

I found this: http://www.all8.com/tools/bpm.htm

With the PC keyboard it is inexact, but I'm getting values between 190 and 190.5 BPM. Will try to get a click on that, but it's still too imprecise.

I'm trying to "feel it" when soloing, because I can barely hear the background beats while playing, and at this speed it's hard to tap you foot and solo at the same time. So, I'm just re-syncing between one phrase and another, but that definitively sucks.

[BlueRedWhite]

Up to 0:23 is around 193

after that is more 198-200

[LordsoftheJungle]

Many moons ago I purchased an Acid Music 3.0 off of ebay(and I think 3.0 is a free download now), it's much simpler than the current Acid Music and works great for beat detection, isolating/looping phrases, creating drum beat tracks(using a drum beat source like Beta Monkey), and slowing down the song without changing the pitch. Pretty cool stuff.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/dl/dl.aspx?dwnid=83

[cynic]

[Bobby Marshall]

Alternatives -

1. Change the mix in your monitors so you can hear the key part (bass drum, snare, bassist) that will give you the "beat".
2. Keep one eye on the drummer.

[zorrow]

Alternatives -

1. Change the mix in your monitors so you can hear the key part (bass drum, snare, bassist) that will give you the "beat".
2. Keep one eye on the drummer.

No drummer in this case and no access to the separate tracks, but just to a muddy mix in mp3.

So, this is my complex solution: finally found a software (here: http://www.pistonsoft.com/bpm-detector.html) that gave me the exact bpm for the backing track. Then, I created with RiffWorks a backing section per solo, with a two measures clue-in and a click keeping the beat "in your face". Then I played over these sections in loops and came out with multiple takes, which I zoomed with Mixcraft and compared against the peaks in the beat. I took then the sub-sections per take which were tighter and put them together. Finally applied some reverb and compression, to blurr the little picking mistakes... and bingo!

This is it the final result -certainly not ashamed of my playing at all, but also VERY proud of my editing "skills" (it's the first time I do this), effort and patience: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8033493/_BLINDER/solos_ionel_slayer_7.mp3

[gorch]

Hey guys! I'm trying to play some solos on top of a background which is quite noisy and I'm getting rhythmically disoriented.

I would like to sync my playing to a click, but I have no idea what's the exact BPM. Is there any free software that would reliably dectet the BPM?

Thanks in advance!

Rhythmically disoriented. My wife never said that to me.

Cubase has that function built in. Any decent DAW should have it too.

[zorrow]

Hey guys! I'm trying to play some solos on top of a background which is quite noisy and I'm getting rhythmically disoriented.

I would like to sync my playing to a click, but I have no idea what's the exact BPM. Is there any free software that would reliably dectet the BPM?

Thanks in advance!

Rhythmically disoriented. My wife never said that to me.

Cubase has that function built in. Any decent DAW should have it too.

My DAW is not very decent. I just use an old version of Mixcraft and it's all what I have. It's very limited, but I know it well and I'm used to it, so I'm hanging in there.

[specialk]

I know it well and I'm used to it, so I'm hanging in there.

I got nothin' as far as a beat detection program goes, but this is some terrific advice for any software in general!

[zorrow]

I got nothin' as far as a beat detection program goes, but this is some terrific advice for any software in general!

...but if that advice is coming from a software engineer who makes a living from writing new software, that's kinda contradictory, right?

[specialk]

^

Not at all contradictory. That is the voice of experience!