What do you use for a click track?

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miroslav said:
I don't think anyone was really being "insulting"...and the OP did admit that BMPs wasn't something he delt with too often.

But as the thread evolved...most seemed to get more out of it then what they put in...or at least as much as you can get out of a discussion about BPMs! :D
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Cool. :cool:

But what the heck is BMPs,again?????:confused::confused::D:D
 
ez_willis said:
no. i've done it twice with a tool he already has.
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I was referring to having difficulty programming the SR 16 drum functions as original beats. I understand there is a click track, I also understand how to change the click sound effect, and I understand how to increase and decrease the tempo with the arrow buttons. This is not the solution I was looking for. There is no tap solution, and no dial solution, and yes I have used it as a click before.

Here's a beat I made using the SR-16 and other instruments. ANd just so you don't go off thinking I'm some sort of hip hop fanatic, the next song is punk, and the one after that is old school country/rock.

http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/2560487
 
BPM....BMP

It's hard typing out those three letters correctly... :D
 
The best click track for me is a drum track generated by Band-in-a-Box. Each measure can be adjusted for tempo, meter and and style, if needed.

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undrgrnd studio said:
Here's a beat I made using the SR-16 and other instruments.
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dude, that shit is fucking BAD! lol @ the roofie coloda and chickens and turkeys!! :laughings:

regarding the 1st track, not sure if you are saying that you programmed the beat to that track, but if you were, i aint. i'm talking about a click track. a way to record an instrument at a consistent tempo. when i track drums, i listen to a click at the tempo of the song. i usually record a scratch guit track, to.

here's an example of the click i am refering to. and here's a link if you don't want to click on something i posted:

http://www.audioandanarchy.com/mp3/click.wav
 
ez_willis said:
dude, that shit is fucking BAD! lol @ the roofie coloda and chickens and turkeys!! :laughings:

regarding the 1st track, not sure if you are saying that you programmed the beat to that track, but if you were, i aint. i'm talking about a click track. a way to record an instrument at a consistent tempo. when i track drums, i listen to a click at the tempo of the song. i usually record a scratch guit track, to.

here's an example of the click i am refering to. and here's a link if you don't want to click on something i posted:

http://www.audioandanarchy.com/mp3/click.wav
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No I understand how to use the click on the SR16. I just would rather have a tappable click you know. You like that track huh, that was my programmed drums on the SR-16 and then I played all the other parts except the mouth harp. I did the first verse and the rest were some other musicians that I get together with.
 
undrgrnd studio said:
No I understand how to use the click on the SR16. I just would rather have a tappable click you know. You like that track huh, that was my programmed drums on the SR-16 and then I played all the other parts except the mouth harp. I did the first verse and the rest were some other musicians that I get together with.
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1st track was awesome! halfway through the 2nd track i got bored and stopped. that's not to say the track wasn't cool. i have a short attention span. i wanted to here a frieds band, so i played it.:p

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Probably unrelated...

Just chiming in here with a (probably useless) thought:

In regards to the "simplicity" of working out tempo/BPM, it's not always that simple. For a straight 4/4 beat, I'm with the guys here who type in a tempo, and pull up or down if its too slow/fast. However, some of my stuff gets a little more complicated than that. About two years ago I wrote a 10-track "progressive technical jazz-death-metal fusion blah blah blah i dont know what to call it :p " album in Guitar Pro. There's a lot of parts that, for example, switch between a 3/4 beat and a 6/8 (triplet-feel) beat. These two things need different tempos to match the click. This is where some math comes into play.

Another example:
Lets say I have a riff, played at 120bpm, 4/4 with straight 8th notes. I then run into a transition where I want to play a riff thats in 6/8, with the same tempo, but the 8th notes are played in a swing/triplet fashion. I have to divide the tempo by 2 (60bpm), and multiply by 3 (180bpm), then at this new tempo I switch to 6/8. This enables me to get to a new tempo (in theory, although when you tap along to it the tempo stays the same - which is the point of the exercise), new time signature, and the transition is as smooth as possible.

During my time writing that album, the examples mentioned above are some of the simpler tempo-related things I had to do. So, calculating tempo isn't always as simple as it seems :cool:
 
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I'm a maths O level failure.
I don't use a click !
But I might for a lonesome track, just so I can say I do ! :D
 
To the OP, the plain old electronic metronomes on the market often have lights. I bought one more than fifteen years ago and it still works fine. It's got a "click" setting and a "silent" setting. When on silent, it flashes a little light.

http://elderly.com/accessories/items/SZIP6000.htm


Something like that would work fine. No typing, you just turn the dial on the face to speed up or slow down the tempo.
 
I guess the answer is to put everyone on ignore except RAMI.
 
heatmiser said:
Personally, I use an actual metronome. It is an elongated sort of pyramid shaped box made of wood. It has a metal rod that rocks back and forth creating a click sound with each pass. There is a metal weight that you can slide up and down the metal rod. Slide it up and the tempo slows, down and the tempo increases. You can set it to the appropriate tempo in mere seconds. It has tempo markings on it like "largo", "adagio" and "presto". I have no idea what that translates to in BPMs nor do I need to know. Of course, it doesn't handle tempo changes too well :o :).
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If it's a windy-uppy one, when the spring runs out you can get this realy cool slow down effect too....

Try doin' that with yer damn 'puters... :D
 
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