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This is really awesome. One thing that I think could be done better would be to display the BPM Deviation by percentage instead of a hard tempo. This is espec
by zefhous 17y ago
This is really awesome.
One thing that I think could be done better would be to display the BPM Deviation by percentage instead of a hard tempo.
This is especially important when there is ambiguity over what the tempo actually is. Is this song 90 BPM or 180? That question is pretty hard for a computer to tell, and two great musicians might tell you different answers. It's pretty subjective.
Here's an example of two takes of a slow rubato jazz piece. The computer analyzes one using a tempo of 169 BPM and the other at 91. It's the same song, and a very similar tempo. But the one rated faster looks much more erratic because the deviation isn't displayed as a percentage.
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