On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Mark Glines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 06 October 2008 12:29:42 Nick Guenther wrote: >> > * Better interface for interactively editing the BPM and first beat >> > offset (beat grid support?) >> >> A beat grid is overlaying an array of "beat goes here" markers on top >> of the track right? That would be cool, it would support tracks that >> change in BPM. > > "Beat grid" is what traktor calls their beat marker editing stuff... it > is a way to quickly set up perfect beat markers. See > http://www.djtechtools.com/2008/04/09/quickly-set-up-perfect-beat-grids/ > (or skip straight to the video at > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBzejpuGk5Y ) for what their version of > it looks like. > > But really, any form of better control over this would be appreciated... > I have found mixxx's automatic BPM detection to be very unreliable, so > I've been using a perl script to load the .mixxxtrack.xml file with BPM > values taken from bpmdj. It's pretty ugly, and it only gets the BPM > right, not the offset within the track. So the beat markers in the > waveform view almost never line up for me. An interactive way to > fine-tune the BPM and bump the marker offsets left/right (so they line > up with the kicks) would be really really nice (in my opinion). > > Supporting tracks that change in BPM would also be very useful, but > probably more work. >
I haven't played with bpmdj, what's it like? If Mixxx's beatdetecting is so bad why do you still use it (i.e. what does Mixxx give you that bpmdj doesn't?). -Nick ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
