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Beatific - another Blender Software (BS) production
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Greetings, DJs and train spotters (choo choo). Do you want to find the BPM of
some of the tunes in your vinyl or CD collection for mixing or joining sample
loops? Of course you do. And this here's the program to help you do it.
Just play the tune and hit the Return key on each beat. As you do this the
BPM and 4/4 bar display are shown in a little window. If you're going through
a long bit of the tune without beats or you fall out of time, hit Space then
start again on the first beat of a 4/4 bar using Return. The time in between
the Space and Return won't be counted. After a couple of minutes you've got
your BPM, so hit Esc to tell it that you've finished before the next tune.
If that's not enough, you can ask for the BPM values on speeds from -8% to
+8% to be worked out and displayed or sent to the clipboard (and from there
on to a word processor or something). It's worked out using the BPM you just
took at 0%. You can use this to see if you've got a good chance of mixing two
tunes (yeah, I know, but I've just started DJing and sometimes it helps me
for the tricky ones, it might do for you too) or joining two sample loops.
So, what does it work on?
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Any Amiga with Kickstart 2 or above.
Installing
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Drag the icon to your C: drawer or some other drawer that you've got set
aside for programs.
Running
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From the Workbench, click on the icon. From the shell, type "Beatific".
Controls
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Return starts, Space pauses until another Return, and Esc stops. Whilst it's
stopped or paused you can use the Edit menu and show the Final BPM window.
The menus are...
File - About...
Quit...
Edit - Copy Send the Final BPM window to the clipboard.
Cut The Final BPM window's closed afterwards.
Delete Wipe the clipboard if anything's on it.
Window - Show Final BPM Show or hide the Final BPM window.
Boring wibble
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GadToolsBox was used to do the GUI thing.
This is copyrighted by me but freely distributible. It shouldn't be altered
in any way and you should only charge for disks, postage, or packing if you
charge anything.
If something goes wrong then I can't be held responsible for the mess - you
use this program at your own risk. After all, it's free - what more do you
want?
And it can't be used as part of anything that's sold for profit without my
say so, although the chances of that are fairly remote, I think. Oh, that
means cover CDs and disks on those glossy magazines as well.
My Email address is CM-D.J.CANNON@tees.ac.uk, if you find a bug or something.
It should work until June '96. After that it MIGHT be dan@blender.demon.co.uk
again.
Seeya...
Dan.