decimals in BPMs
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- middot
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decimals in BPMs
Hi. This is perhaps a dumb question, but I have been producing for 5 years or so but only this year I have started DJing and I've been curious as to why many if not most tracks have BPMs with decimals.
Surely DAWs can produce a steady clock? Or is it to do with the way the BPM is calculated?
Surely DAWs can produce a steady clock? Or is it to do with the way the BPM is calculated?
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- subsekt
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Re: decimals in BPMs
They don't, your bpm counter is wrong.
Re: decimals in BPMs
Well back in the day I made lots of tracks with non rounded bpm values because they used loops and I had no way of warping! SO you just adjusted the tempo till it matched the drum loop you were using!
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Re: decimals in BPMs
The tempo for a locked groove on a record is exactly 133 1/3 bpm. This would suggest that bpm's can be to the decimal point.
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Re: decimals in BPMs
They can be, of course, especially with vinyl.
But by the Way OP asked the question, digital music is implied, and digital bpm counters.
Most counters will read 130.1 or 126. Whatever, it means in no way that the music was produced at decimals, it's just showing up the inaccuracy of the detection algorithm.
Even when warping in ableton it will get decimals and when you know the bpm you can just type it in.
If it reads, say, 128.23 then you pretty much know it's actually just 128, and if you pick the first beat and type warp 128 from here, lo and behold it will be spot on.
But by the Way OP asked the question, digital music is implied, and digital bpm counters.
Most counters will read 130.1 or 126. Whatever, it means in no way that the music was produced at decimals, it's just showing up the inaccuracy of the detection algorithm.
Even when warping in ableton it will get decimals and when you know the bpm you can just type it in.
If it reads, say, 128.23 then you pretty much know it's actually just 128, and if you pick the first beat and type warp 128 from here, lo and behold it will be spot on.
Re: decimals in BPMs
Totally agree on that.Lost to the Void wrote:They can be, of course, especially with vinyl.
But by the Way OP asked the question, digital music is implied, and digital bpm counters.
Most counters will read 130.1 or 126. Whatever, it means in no way that the music was produced at decimals, it's just showing up the inaccuracy of the detection algorithm.
Even when warping in ableton it will get decimals and when you know the bpm you can just type it in.
If it reads, say, 128.23 then you pretty much know it's actually just 128, and if you pick the first beat and type warp 128 from here, lo and behold it will be spot on.