How do you find the right BPM for a song?

[Night_Fairy]

I'm new to all of this and I tried making a simfile and it's really off beat. Some one please help me.

[Shashmakito]

Google it.

'song' bpm

[dAnceguy117]

mixmeister bpm analyzer will give you a solid rough estimate

after that, just use f7/f8 to make any necessary slight adjustments

[Night_Fairy]

Thank you. ^^

[Vidik]

MixMeisterLar Doesn't tell good BPMs. It fractions the REAL BPM!

[jugglinguy]

Originally Posted by Vidik

MixMeisterLar Doesn't tell good BPMs. It fractions the REAL BPM!

It's called MixMeister BPM Analyzer. You're confusing it with MixMasterLar

[Relambrien]

MixMeister sometimes gives a BPM that is half of what you'd expect, and you can double it if you like without affecting the sync of the song. It's just that sixteenths become eighths, eighths become quarters, etc.

You could also try a program called BPM ProScan, and compare the results it and MixMeister give.

[Ramengan]

Don't forget about the gap. That's important for syncing too. The stickies explain how to find that.

[PsYcHoZeRoSk8eR]

I use Mixmeister and Atomix-Mp3. I usually have to use both because neither is always right. I've had it where Mixmeister made what should be 16ths -> 12ths or something weird like that somehow. Just gotta work with it until you find the right one, its almost a trial and error kind of thing.

[macgravel]

Originally Posted by PsYcHoZeRoSk8eR

I've had it where Mixmeister made what should be 16ths -> 12ths or something weird like that somehow. Just gotta work with it until you find the right one

If that's the case, then do something like this:

Say the BPM is 160, and it's making 16ths into 12ths. What I do is divide the 160 BPM. You now have 40 BPM. You can either take and times the 40 BPM by 3, or 5 (So it will equal 120 BPM or 200 BPM). Either way will turn the 12ths into 16ths. (It's what I do, and it works for me)

[PsYcHoZeRoSk8eR]

Originally Posted by macgravel

If that's the case, then do something like this:

Say the BPM is 160, and it's making 16ths into 12ths. What I do is divide the 160 BPM. You now have 40 BPM. You can either take and times the 40 BPM by 3, or 5 (So it will equal 120 BPM or 200 BPM). Either way will turn the 12ths into 16ths. (It's what I do, and it works for me)

I did do that, on my most recent case of something like that happening. Worked pretty well too, but thats only if you can't work with 12ths or what have you.

[dore]

Here's how I do it. I use a stopwatch to time a section of the song (the longer, the better), then I use this formula:
(number of beats timed)*(60)/(time on stopwatch)

This will get you pretty close, but you have to account for human error and try a few more times. Also, the longer the passage you time, the more negligible human error becomes.

[dAnceguy117]

it's whatever works really, you just need to be able to fine-tune whatever you come up with

same goes with the gap, autosync will make things close enough, anything more accurate is irrelevant anyway because of the gap differentials between computers

if you come up with a bpm from mixmeister or whatever bpm finder that gives you the bpm in 3/4 time or any incorrect time signature, you can really just multiply it by 5/4 or 4/3 or whatever you need in order to make the time signature correct