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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: cascius on April 28, 2004, 07:06:55 pm

Title: Beat Matching Transitions - For Parties
Post by: cascius on April 28, 2004, 07:06:55 pm
i don't know if you guys are familiar with such softwares as MixMeister (Free Demo Version) (http://mixmeister.com/) but they offer a really cool transition effect that i wish MC supported: Beat Matching Transitions. It's quite simple and all it does is 3 things:
- Using the BPMs of the current track and the next ones, it changes the speed of both tracks during the crossfade for smoother playbacks.
- It also looks for the best part to overlap the two songs and synchs the beats. The results are 90% of the time absolutely amazing.

So I was wondering if this is somethign we could one day see in MC. Would that be possible?

-Cascius
Title: Re:Beat Matching Transitions
Post by: cascius on April 28, 2004, 07:45:53 pm
Alright, I just realized that my description might sound very vague to a lot of people so I made a little mp3 sample. The sample includes 5 songs automatically mixed together. By that I mean that all i did was to put them in BPM order and then applied the "beat matching" option. Btw, that option is real time and doesn't use a lot of cpu.

To avoid having a huge file, I trimed the middle part of each songs. That's where you should hear a short blank.

Also, to help you guys hear where each transitions are, here's a screenshot of the timeline:
(http://members.aol.com/safew/mms.gif)
Note how MixMeister automatically chose which segement to overlap and the crossfade settings.

The mp3 can be found HERE (http://members.aol.com/safew/mms.mp3)

Hope this helps
Title: Re:Beat Matching Transitions - Kick Ass 4 Parties
Post by: ozmael on April 28, 2004, 08:15:26 pm
I love this feature. I would definately use this feature if it made it's way into Media Center.

Ozmael
Title: Re:Beat Matching Transitions - Kick Ass 4 Parties
Post by: pipsqueak on April 28, 2004, 08:44:40 pm
i have a free beat matching piece of software (the free version of Mix Vibes)- its okay but very complicated to use - i would love to see this in MC

any other electronic music fans out there?
Title: Re:Beat Matching Transitions - Kick Ass 4 Parties
Post by: Seviien on April 28, 2004, 09:33:48 pm
something like this would be super spiffy...
Title: Re:Beat Matching Transitions - For Parties
Post by: JustinChase on April 28, 2004, 10:56:03 pm
Yes!

Oh, did I mention, yes!

Yes, please!

That would be neato keen, I should like that quite smashingly!

Looking forward to it in V10.0.132

Thanks!!!!!

 ;D