How do I see the original tempo of an audio track?

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How do I see the original tempo of an audio track?

Post by peter_heard01 » Fri Jun 10, 2011 9:42 am

When I drag a track into ableton it starts analysing it. And as soon as it does the tempo in the clips properties changes to whatever the master bpm is. Im wondering is it possible to see the original track bpm even when the clip has been warped...I have to get the actual file and use another piece of software on it....
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Re: How do I see the original tempo of an audio track?

Post by Schmidi » Fri Jun 10, 2011 12:15 pm

--double click the clip (once you have dragged it into session view)

-- look for a box under "WARP" that says "ORIGINAL BPM"

done!

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Re: How do I see the original tempo of an audio track?

Post by peter_heard01 » Sat Jun 11, 2011 7:15 pm

Hi,

I checked the clip and that doesnt exist:

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Any ideas?
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Re: How do I see the original tempo of an audio track?

Post by ark » Sun Jun 12, 2011 3:25 pm

If you have an audio track, there is no BPM recorded along with it -- it's just audio.

Warping the track identifies where the beats are, which by inference gives it a BPM.

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Re: How do I see the original tempo of an audio track?

Post by flymind » Mon Sep 05, 2016 10:40 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I51etfDsGHo&t=304s

can someone please tell me the tempo of the second track?? been trying to find it for days and the drums just won't match the original

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Re: How do I see the original tempo of an audio track?

Post by ian_halsall » Mon Sep 05, 2016 2:01 pm

flymind wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I51etfDsGHo&t=304s

can someone please tell me the tempo of the second track?? been trying to find it for days and the drums just won't match the original
The loop is "funky drummer" played by Clyde Stubblesfield as part of James Brown's band.

It's about 89 bpm from memory (unless they repitched it for this track).

Cheers

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