Does anyone know of any good freeware or shareware, or even commercial software, that would help with mapping BPM's from music for remixing? For reference, I'm using ACID 4.0.

Cubase is the best one, friend, but I'd like to know what you mean by "mapping bpm"...

I know how to do this in logic.

Slice a 4 bar loop out of the track using the wave editor of your choice and make sure it's accurate by playing it over and over..

Then put the loop in logic. Draw a 4 bar loop and select "Adjust tempo according to audio file and locators." This will then change the tempo of the track to the tempo of the loop and tell you the speed of it.

Other programs.. I don't know.

yeah this can be done with many progs... Cubase, Logic, and ReCycle too... but this would take ages and I'm not sure this is what you want to do... if you just want to find the bpm then use a bpm calculator, if you want to pitch the song then just find any player that can change the sample rate, if you want to timestretch use a plugin for winamp, or amazing slow downer... (...)

Any idea where I can get a good BPM calculator? The only one I had was one that you had to hit the spacebar on every downbeat. Unfortunately, I couldn't play keyboard well enough. (Bad PC pun with rimshot).

Bpm calculators don't work really well... unless you hit the tempo yourself...



The most efficient way to calculate a tempo is this : use sound forge, make a 4~8 beats loops. then use the command Special/ "edit tempo" :



Now simply type the correct number of beats (of your loop) and measures (4 in most of the electro genres) and you'll find the exact tempo (here we can guess that it's 126, I really don't know why somebody would use a 126.048 tempo).

This time it's not about guessing the tempo, it's about finding it!

Awesome. I'll give it a shot. Thanks, Alt.

no prob!