[LAU] Q: HOWTO: extract the beat times from an audio track

[Brett McCoy]

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Jeremy Henty <onepoint at starurchin.org> wrote:

> I want  to create an  animation for a  track my band recorded  and I'm
> wondering how  to get it  in sync.  It's  a straight 4/4 piece  but we
> weren't playing to  a click track so the  tempo varies slightly.  Most
> of the advice  I get is "Open it in Audacity  (or similar) and eyeball
> the beats from the waveform" but it would be very cool if there was an
> app that could read the audio and spit out the beat times.  Is there?

You might be able to use something like Papagayo:

http://www.lostmarble.com/papagayo/index.shtml

It doesn't determine beats per se, but is a tool for creating synchs
for animation (usually dialog, but you could use it for this also).

-- Brett
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