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
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