Re: [Finale] Tempo Detection in Audacity

2009-09-27 Thread Christopher Smith
David, It might not be as bad as you think. Try this free online metronome (and a standalone applet that runs in your browser) where you can tap along with a tune and have the tempo of ANY two beats displayed. If you are not steady enough for two beats, you can take an average over the

RE: [Finale] Tempo Detection in Audacity

2009-09-27 Thread Peter Taylor
From: David W. Fenton My play project for the weekend is to analyze the tempos of various recordings of the Pachelbel Canon 8-\ Sad or what? ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Tempo Detection in Audacity

2009-09-27 Thread dhbailey
Peter Taylor wrote: From: David W. Fenton My play project for the weekend is to analyze the tempos of various recordings of the Pachelbel Canon 8-\ Sad or what? I don't think so -- tempo analysis is very important to help figure out what one feels is the proper interpretation.

Re: [Finale] Tempo Detection in Audacity

2009-09-27 Thread Christopher Smith
On Sun Sep 27, at SundaySep 27 7:36 AM, dhbailey wrote: tempo analysis is very important to help figure out what one feels is the proper interpretation. Listening to works which have been widely recorded can be very helpful in that regard. Some recordings of any work seem to succeed

Re: [Finale] Tempo Detection in Audacity

2009-09-27 Thread David W. Fenton
On 27 Sep 2009 at 10:21, Christopher Smith wrote: I imagine (perhaps wrongly!) that the tempo might stay fairly solid for each section, but change from variation to variation, maybe with a connection to what kinds of subdivisions are in the top parts. David F., I hope you will point us

Re: [Finale] Tempo Detection in Audacity

2009-09-27 Thread David W. Fenton
On 27 Sep 2009 at 2:55, Christopher Smith wrote: http://handyprograms.blogspot.com/2008/08/metronome.html For some reason, it's not compatible with my Java installation and won't run. I think it's likely not the fault of the app -- my Java installation has been broken through several

Re: [Finale] Tempo Detection in Audacity

2009-09-26 Thread Aaron Sherber
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

Re: [Finale] Tempo Detection in Audacity

2009-09-26 Thread David W. Fenton
On 26 Sep 2009 at 16:44, John Blane wrote: 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 this really wouldn't solve much of the problem at all. Sure tapping is a

Re: [Finale] Tempo Detection in Audacity

2009-09-26 Thread John Blane
Um, I think you quite obviously missed the context of my trying to assist you. I never suggested anything about inputting them into Finale at all. You can determine the tempo with Finale while you use any other source for playback. Get it? And I wasn't suggesting that you invest in Pro

Re: [Finale] Tempo Detection in Audacity

2009-09-26 Thread David W. Fenton
On 26 Sep 2009 at 17:49, John Blane wrote: Um, I think you quite obviously missed the context of my trying to assist you. The context was the thread launched by my post, so that's the context I was using. You appear to have been using a different context. The fact that I didn't detect that

RE: [Finale] Tempo Detection in Audacity

2009-09-26 Thread Angela Turner
Mobile: 0402 84 85 31 -Original Message- From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of David W. Fenton Sent: Sunday, 27 September 2009 6:11 AM To: Finale@shsu.edu Subject: [Finale] Tempo Detection in Audacity My play project for the weekend is to analyze