is there an easy way to find bpm

I use Mixmeister and it shows you the BPM as well as the key of your tracks.

if you go into fruity loops, set the bpm of your track, then drop yor accapella into the bottom half of the playlist, then click in the top right hand corner of the sample, amenu will pop up. choose fit to tempo, this will stretch the accapella to the set tempo at the top of the screen. obviously you can set the tempo to any thing. once you have done this you can cut, paste and loop to your hearts content. you then save as wav or mp3 and export your looped accapella. the only problem is if there is a gap at the start of your sample this can cause looping issues but to get around this you can simply trim it in soundforge or wavelab. hope this helps.

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By this I mean is it easier to do your song at the speed the acapella already is or is it better to bring the acapella upto the speed you want your song at?

I make remixes to play on given riddims (so one vocal after another on the same beat), so I use the beat over and again and I match the acapella to the song speed.

I’m not very good with computer stuff, so I just use PCDJ FX and record it into SoundForge. I haven’t figured out how to set a seperate speed for an acc and an inst in Acid. If Anyone knows, I would be really happy to know!
Peace,
WillyCole

get a clicker counter……click every beat and time it for a minute )

Too Easy ! Fucking stupid to do though…..
know the original songs bpm…..easiest solution by using maths to stretch to a particular bpm…

It can be extremely tricky detecting BPM of accapellas.
My solutions are as follows, although the MAIN roblem with accapellas is that the singer is sometimes early or late on the downbeat, (1st measure of a bar)

Find a 1 bar section that you are positive that the singer starts on the downbeat (kick) (it can help that you listen to the original)…….finding the BPM of a bar is EASY (see solutions above) or by using wavelab or similiar go to the timestretch tab in the menu then in the original tempo section enter 1.0.0 (1 bar)….due to analysing the time of the 1 bar loop it will calculate the BPM of the loop. Almost any music program/editor has this feature.

Acid in the beatmapper section can do it .
Soundforge, ableton etc all can calculate a 1 bar length and tell you the BPM before stretching.

The main point that YOU HAVE to understand is that all vocals/individual lines can swing early or late, by carrying and stretching the words before and after the downbeat.

so to measure the tempo accurately it is best to only work for a 1 bar loop that you know starts on a downbeat and take things from there.
(and I aint gonna mention about the possibilty of any tempo map changes within the original track itself.

I always use this website and just tap it out: http://www.all8.com/tools/bpm.htm

Then I change the "From (Original BMP)" & "To (Desired BPM)" values in Audacity’s Effect > Change Tempo.

I use Logic 9, so I can make minor adjustments to the new acapella as needed.

It’ WAAAAAAYYYYY easier to pick a tempo that’s pretty close to the original song and then stretch it in pieces. Takes a bit, but everything sound so much cleaner then. I’ve tried the other way and I’ll never waste time with that again.

SampleCalc is the fastest way when I have a true acapella, although Mixed In Key usually hits the mark with these as well

The best way is a physical tap counter. The digital calculations are often thrown off by long pauses etc (ABLETON!)
my trick is to calculate the original song bpm, then go back and see if the acapella matches, should be pretty close, unless it’s time stretched
for a house mix etc

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