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From:
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William VanLoo , Medium Graham
Cc:
Independent Dub Monsters
Date:
Sun, 10 Dec 2000 10:14:50 -0800
Subject:
Re: [idm] HP Lab's automatic DJ
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um, spin vinyl. What is it with people and cd's? and now yer trying to take all of the talent out of matching beats(if any)? um....spin vinyl. At 10:31 AM 12/10/00 -0800, William VanLoo wrote:
quoted 29 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 >-- >http://www.chromedecay.org > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org >For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org
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