My play project for the weekend is to analyze the tempos of various recordings of the Pachelbel Canon, and I figured I'd be able to do it with a plugin for Audacity. I'm finding, however, that there are very few beat detection plugins that are useful. I want one that will analyze a selection of the waveform, but I can't find anything like that. All the standalone apps for this autodetect from the first few seconds and if there's too much silence at the beginning (as there is for many of MP3s involved here), the detect nothing at all. And even for the ones that "work" the numbers are just wrong.
It's quite clear to me that the available tools I found are not designed to deal with Classical music. Does anyone have any ideas what to do here? I have a Beat Finder plugin in the ANALYZE menu, but when I run it, I get a track at the bottom showing tempo change boundaries, but I can't seem to get any information about the actual beats or their BPMs, or anything else. Is there a plugin that will do what I want, i.e., analyze a passage and give me an average BPM? Or am I stuck doing this manually (ugh!)? -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
