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Note: For longer passages (for example, complete CD tracks), you can use
TBPM Finder.
The waveform of the audio material is displayed in the upper part of the dialog,
preset at a zoom level of about 10 seconds.
The principle involves moving the green start marker to the start of the beat
and the red end marker to the start of the next beat. The BPM display to the
left then shows the tempo of the loop in beats per minute (BPM). Here we
presume that there are exactly the same amount of beats in the selected
passage as is displayed in the "Beats" input field – 4 is the default. If there are
two full bars between the start and end markers, the number of beats has to
be increased to eight, otherwise the Loop Finder will only correlate half the
speed.
The precise marking of the beat length is required for exactly defining the loop
length. This is also possible manually by moving the start and end markers,
and can be similarly precise when using the zoom functions. But it's easier to
do so using the following:
Tap tempo: activates the automatic procedure for setting the tempo. First,
audio playback begins at the start marker position. Then you will be requested
to tap in the beat with "Tap" or by pressing the "T" key, that is, the "T" key
should be pressed in time with the music. Playback stops after the number of
beats set above is reached. The start marker is now positioned at the start of
the tap process and at the end marker at the end. And that was it! The beat
has now been set and the tempo can be read. Program automation makes
sure that the start and end positions are placed exactly at the next beat. Even
if the tap process didn't work out exactly, automation nearly always finds the
right beat meant when tapping.
Snap marker: You can use the red and green arrow buttons at the top beside
the wave display for moving the start and end markers one beat forward or one
beat back. This makes it very easy to select "round loops", that is, whole bars,
during running playback.
As long as a loop runs through without any problems, the correct tempo will be
able to be read to the left.
Here you should make sure that the number of beats per bar (default: 4) has to
adapted to the actual loop length. So, if four bars are selected as a loop, 16
has to be entered into this field.