Easiest way to find the tempo of something?

[Cacoph0ny]

I've started messing around with making hip-hop beats for fun and I have trouble finding the tempo of some samples when I don't want to chop them up. Just guessing and checking with a metronome has been ineffective. Is there an easier way?

 

[Barnacle]

Tap-Tempo is your friend.

 

[[UEAK]Clowd]

what he said ^

cubase has one built in(look for the beat calculator)

or if you're not on cubase, AnalogX has a nice one.

 

[dale_a_smith]

If you have a mac there is a little widget you can download for your dashboard. Its just a tap tempo tho.. useful to have..

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/music/bpmwidget.html

 

[Cacoph0ny]

thanks, checking out the analogx one

 

[SocialNumb]

This works pretty good, if your lucky.

http://labs.echonest.com/click/

I also use a plugin for iTunes called BPMer.

When that fails I go Tap Tempo as mentioned above.

 

[Audiosprite]

i've been using acid's beatmapper, it's not great though

 

[mat campbell]

Same way as your pulse.
Count the beats in the space of 10 seconds and times it by 6.

 

[Audiosprite]

Same way as your pulse.
Count the beats in the space of 10 seconds and times it by 6.

that will give you a tempo range with a factor of 6. hardly accurate.