At 8:15 AM -0400 5/25/03, Mike Carlyle wrote:
This makes it challenging when I sit down with Doggiebox. I usually do a couple of false starts, changing the combination of tempo/time sig/note value.
What's the most reliable way for me to figure out what time signature to start programming a beat with?
<soapbox> Well, frankly I don't see the problem with worrying about false starts and such. It's part of the joy of learning, and I'm not at all being facetious when I say that. This is how we learn things, and the next time you work in whatever meter it is you're working you'll know. Better to struggle through with it and acquire the knowledge than look for a shortcut tool. </soapbox> Sermonizing aside, when I was tinkering with ProTools last week or whenever it was, I discovered that it does have an "identify beat" function. Record whatever it is you're working on, select the entire track, and then run the function. I tried it only once, but this was with the imported Doggiebox drum track and hence something that must be easy for any algorithm to figure out. Don't know how well it will work with someone playing an instrument (I imagine pretty well if you're playing repetitive patterns or at least really accenting the beats), but FWIW. Cheers, Carl -- ********** Carl Freire Oakland, California cfreire@ix.netcom.com cfreire@uclink4.berkeley.edu