quoted 6 lines Okay, but that would only work properly with 4-on-the-floor music like - as
> 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...
OK, I just thought of something.
What if producers started encoding the digital forms of their tracks
(that is, CD or MP3) with tempo information similar to the way video has
timecode? That way, an automated system like the above wouldn't have to guess.
The real benefit, of course, would be for CD mixers. It has the
potential to take some of the drudgery out of mixing and instead give
the DJ more time to do more interesting things. Of course, it also has
the potential to make DJ's sets *way* more boring.
Err, how'd we veer back onto this "digital mixing" thread?
Bill
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