Finding a BPM that works?

Geneity X · Trick Member Joined: 21 Nov 2002 Location: @_@

To make a long and agonizing story short...no program under the sun (including non-bpm only programs like Stependous and others) can find a steady BPM for the past nine songs I've tried to make. All of a sudden one day it just stopped working. I used to use MixMeister for all my files, and now it's always wrong.

It's obviously something I'm doing, because all these programs can't be wrong. The gap isn't the problem because within the first 10-20 mesures in every song it starts getting off. I've tried for hours on one file, to manually fix the BPM and that didn't work either. I know some songs don't have a constant BPM...but nine? This is just getting extremely frustrating.

I have no idea where to go now. Help?
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Adamn · Trick Member Joined: 17 Jun 2002 Location: Syracuse, NY

Most songs that are not electronically produced have no steady BPM. What sort of songs are you using, like, can you give an example?

Geneity X · Trick Member Joined: 21 Nov 2002 Location: @_@

See, that's the thing. I've been using songs off of Dancemania 10/22, Ultra Trance 3 and 4 and Totally Dance. It's all electronically prcessed stuff. Some of the songs off of those same CD's were easy to find a BPM for and then I take another song off of that same CD and it acts like it doesn't have a steady BPM. One song in particular has slipped under the radar coutness times. This is My DJ by Hard In Tango. What a pain in the buttocks that song is, lol.

So yeah...

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uouuÉ · Trick Member Joined: 10 Jun 2004

Mixmeister isn't always accurate. Just use it to find an approximate BPM and then make a long stream of quarter notes, turn the assist tick on, and use F7/F8 to adjust the starting BPM. Then, when you're done, use auto adjust to find an accurate gap. It works for me.
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-Scorpion- · Trick Member Joined: 16 Feb 2005

Use Acid's Beatmapper. If the song hasn't bpm changes, you can get reliable bpms up to the 3rd digit after comma.
I have written a short howto how to use it, it's somewhere in DDR PC and Simulators..

sequencial · Trick Member Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Location: Detroit, MI

yes, beatmapper in Acid 4 or 5 works very well. pretty easy to figure out too.
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