Don't know Audacity well enough but Pro Tools can do what you're
looking for. If you want to tap along to determine tempo there is a
plug-in for itunes available.
But that facility is already built into Finale. Look in the
Hyperscribe tool and choose Playback or Click from the beat source menu
On Sep 26, 2009, at 4:15 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 26 Sep 2009 at 16:49, Aaron Sherber wrote:
On 9/26/2009 4:11 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
Or am I stuck doing this manually (ugh!)?
I know this isn't what you were asking, but why is doing it
manually so
tough? If you have a stopwatch and Excel, you can get the metronome
timings just by counting off a few beats and plugging the duration
into
a formula.
Have you ever tried that? On 16 separate recordings? It's not nearly
as easy as you think, and the result depends on which part of the
piece you listen to (since tempos are not uniform from beginning to
end).
Right now as a preliminary step, I'm getting the timings of the
tracks with the silence left out, and then using that to calculate
the average tempo (since the number of beats is the same in all
performances, at least for the complete ones -- that has turned out
to be an eye-opener, as some of these light classical albums
available for MP3 download on Amazon have truncated versions, with
fade-outs at the end, even).
But since tempos vary throughout the piece, sometimes by as much as 6-
10bpm, I will still need to go back and evaluate sections. If I had
an automated way to do this, it would be *much* easier. What I
envision would be a tool that would analyze the entire piece and show
me points where the tempo has changed sufficient to be a new tempo (a
nice tool would allow me to set the sensitivity of this detection),
and would indicate somehow the average tempo in each of these
sections.
I'm beginning to suspect this is just something nobody else is
interested in doing, so no one has created a plug-in to do it, and
thus I'll be left doing it manually.
*sigh*
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