Re: [LAU] Bpm detection/quantize

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Fons Adriaensen schrieb: Good question and most of those, who do the above-mentioned beat-adding to gregorian chants etc do not ask that question. Or they come up with answers like: because the cd-buyers may like it... But there *can* be better answers to this question I could think of. Such as: to destroy and distort a music in order to create a very new one. I never heard a successfull experiment like this performed with gregorian chants though... I too will not question the abilities of all those, who ask for such assitance but I dare to estimate, that 9 out of 10 users of beat-detection-automatisms do not use such tools to widen their own atistic horizons but to narrow the horizon of the music they'd like to use as an accompainment for their playing. I can play a 3-note bassline to *any* piece of music - and I do not need any assistance by any software to do so ;-) Seriously: to have some comforts and automagic is cool and can have a very positive impact on a musical work. A sofware for beat-measurement can help to analyse a give piece of music to find ways to add something constructive to it. But all that "Get our 20000-loopsample-DVD/our 200-prograde-preset Guitarampemulation/ our easy-klick-your-hit sequencer and become a big star in no time and whithout any learning-trouble!" is emberracing nonsense made for consumes, not for artists. Basicly everything, that makes decisions, an artist should make him/herself is a toy, not an instrument. best regs HZN