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Marc Lacroix

Dec 10, 2015 @ 02:05 PM

Hi I'm a dance teacher and would like to know if Beatunes reads Measures per minute.
For example music in 4/4 at 120 BPM would be 30 MPM, and music in 3/4 at 120 BPM would be 40 MPM. It would be a tremendous help if you had an option in your analysis screen to record measures-per-minute in the BPM field. You would need to add an option such that the user could select the count of the music (2/2 for the rare paso doble, 3/4 for waltz, or 4/4 for most everything else) and then you would just divide the BPM by 2, 3, or 4 depending on the count selected. Currently I'm doing this with a calculator manually and it is very tedious.
Thanks

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by hendrik on Dec 11, 2015 @ 08:06 AM

   

   Hey Marc,

   I guess it's one of those little known features, but in its main table, beaTunes can display the columns BPM, MPM and Time Signature. You can enable/disable each column by right-clicking on the table header and selecting the fields you want displayed (alternatively, select a song and then open the View menu and select View Options).

   • BPM is the column that can be computed by beaTunes.
   • Time Signature is also computed, if you use the OnsetPeak algorithm. However, the used algorithm is mediocre. You might want to edit/correct the values manually in the Get Info dialog.
   • MPM is computed automatically, whenever Time Signature and BPM are set.

   Hope this helps,

   -hendrik

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2. Support Staff 2 Posted by hendrik on Dec 11, 2015 @ 09:46 AM

   

   Thanks for your question. It inspired this article:

   http://blog.beatunes.com/2015/12/beatunes-for-ballroom-dancers.html

   Cheers,

   -hendrik

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3. 3 Posted by Marc Lacroix on Dec 11, 2015 @ 03:37 PM

   

   Great thanks Hendrik
   I will initiate the feature ASAP!

   Marc

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4. hendrik closed this discussion on Dec 13, 2015 @ 01:25 PM.