Okay, but that would only work properly with 4-on-the-floor music like - as
they said - house, techno, maybe even certain dub/reggae tracks. I've yet to
see beat-matching software/hardware that will successfully pick up the tempo
of a drum'n'bass or a uk garage track. It's easy for a human to do since
telling the tempo of music is qualitative, but it's very very hard to do it
using just numbers in some hardware. Good luck to them, though...
G-love.
http://www.gram.org.uk
quoted 38 lines Look what some hip geek at Hewlett-Packard's Bristol Labs is up to:
> Look what some hip geek at Hewlett-Packard's Bristol Labs is up to:
>
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2000/HPL-2000-104.html
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2000/HPL-2000-104.pdf
>
> Hang the DJ: Automatic Sequencing and Seamless Mixing of
> Dance-music Tracks
> Cliff, Dave
>
> HPL-2000-104
> 20000809
> External
>
> Keyword(s): user interfaces; music information retrieval; music
> sequencing; mixing; Disk-Jockey; automation; dance music; compilation
>
> Abstract: [...] This paper describes an automatic method by which
> compilations of dance-music can be sequenced and seamlessly mixed by
> computer, with minimal user involvement. The user may specify a
> selection of tracks, and may give a qualitative indication of the type
> of mix required. The resultant mix can be presented as a continuous
> single digital audio file, whether for burning to CD or for play-out
> from a virtual jukebox or personalized virtual radio station.
>
> 10 Pages
>
> Choice quote:
>
> "[...] the method described here operates on ``dance'' styles of music,
> where the rhythmic element of the music is regular and pronounced. In
> the sublime poetry of English Law, these styles are defined in Clause
> 58 (1) (b) of the 1994 Criminal Justice Act as ``...sounds wholly or
> predominantly characterized by the emission of a succession of
> repetitive beats.'' Such music styles include those popularly known as
> ``disco'', ``electronica'', ``house'', ``garage'', ``techno'',
> ``hip-hop'', ``drum n bass'', and ``trance''."
>
> hmm...he doesn't mention IDM :)
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