Bpm Determining In Manual Mode; Bpm Determining In Automatic Mode - ALCATECH BPM STUDIO 4 PRO User Manual

BPM Counter

3.10.2. BPM Determining in Manual Mode

occurring base beat.
recognized for more than two seconds, the
counter will reset to 0.
Watch the displayed BPM value. Once it stops
increasing, you can leave the BPM counter by
clicking the [OK] button. The determined value
will be entered into the BPM database, and
displayed in the play list
3.10.3. BPM Determining in Auto Mode
starting a title in Monitor Player. The module will
now analyze the title using the same procedure
as the automatic beat counters in the players.
Independent of these though, the beat of a title
will be filtered, and analyzed. Now watch the BPM
display, and the red area. When the shown value
does not increase anymore, and the blinking is
completely synchronized with the title's beat, it
can be assumed that the beat value has been
accurately determined.
Switch counter
manual. Start the title in
Monitor-Player.
The space key on your
keyboard will function as
trigger. Press it at every
The program now
counts every base
beat, indicating so by
a red, blinking field. If
no input
Switch counter to Auto.
Confirm by either clicking
the [star t] button, or
Since it can happen that a title can not be correctly
displayed with a standard filter (e.g. red area
doesn't blink, but stays red), this filter can be
to
modified. To do so, activate [Filter Correction] in
the lower left corner of the filter window.
Upon starting analyzing, you can now adjust the
is
filter frequency range, so that the red area will
blink exactly once per beat, and thus will provide
clean results.
The horizontal bar can be modified in position,
and width, thus changing the filter curve. The
ver tical slider changes the filter intensity
(Amplitude). The so created frequency range will
be displayed visually.
After this process is complete the determined
values will be entered into the ID3 tag, added to
the internal BPM Database, and indicated in the
play list.