determine the tempo of a loop

[will the moor]

how do you go about it? I think I might be doing it the cave man way. I take some audio and get a good loop of it on the timeline. Then I use tap tempo to get in the ballpark. then I zoom into the right edge of the loop and make manual adjustments to the tempo until the end of the loop lines up perfectly with the next measure marker.

I use a couple of looper pedals in my own music so I wind up dumping loops into the computer but then want to add stuff and loop other things so getting them on a bars/beats timeline is really helpful.

Takes a while and takes a fair amount of guess work. I'm thinking, "shouldn't this damn computer be computing this for me??" :) Tell me there's a better way!

[filosofem]

Will, if you're running 7.4 in the Preferences Processing Tab enable 'Drag & Drop from Desktop Conforms to Session Tempo' and 'Automatically Copy Files on Import'.

Drag the audio to Desktop and then to the Timeline, in Workspace in the Tempo column the original tempo will be displayed. Though, the audio because of Elastic Audio will conform to the sessions tempo.

There are some 7.4 vids on DTV that Phil covers for more workflow ideas.






filosofem

[IntelDoc]

You can also take the wav file and go to the very beginning of the first transient. Take that and highlight out to say the beginning of the 4th measure. You then go to the menu and go to EVENTS (I think) and do a "deteremine tempo" and it will give you a estimate on the selected section. You can use that for the rest of it with elastic audio and make all the downbeats fit to the grid.

Make sense?

Doc

[will the moor]

Thanks fellas. I'll give both a go when I get home tonight.

[will the moor]

OT: Doc, what is that crazy bass drum pedal robot thing on your site? I want one! Wouldn't mind a vintech dual 72 either but hey, robots before mic pres.