[Musicians] Anyone know of a real-time tempo (BPM) detector for Mac?

David Firestine dave.firestine55 at gmail.com
Thu May 3 11:35:54 PDT 2018


LiveBPM is an android app, some lag time in processing, but useful.

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 8:14 AM, jim saxe via Musicians <
musicians at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Do any of you know of a program will run on a MacBook (under
> OS X), listen to music through the built-in microphone, and
> automatically detect and display the tempo in beats per minute
> (of course occasionally updating the displayed number if the
> music speeds up or slows down)?
>
> Please note the specifics of my question and don't tell me that
> I ought to be asking about an app that will run on, say, a phone
> or tablet under iOS or Android.  If you can recommend something
> that runs on a MacBook with OS X and you happen to mention that
> there are also iOS or Android or Windows versions of the same
> product, that's fine.  But I mainly want something for a MacBook.
>
> Similarly, if whatever product you mention is also able to do
> batch processing and produce tempo profiles from MP3 files,
> WAV files, iTunes folders, URLs of YouTube videos, or whatever,
> that would be nice to know, but I'm mainly interested in something
> that can detect and display tempo by listening in real time (and
> without needing the user to tap along with the beat).  I'd also
> be interested in knowing if the program could write updates of
> the current tempo to a place where they could periodically be
> read by some other process, such as a shell script, Python script,
> Java or C program, etc.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Jim
>
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Dave
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