Ableton Tutorial: Finding the BPM of a Track/Loop with Ableton

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Just quickly showing how to find a track/loop's BPM using warp markers in Ableton 8.

How to Quickly and Easily Find the BPM of a Track or Loop in Live via Warping!

Although I use Mixed in Key for finding a pretty close approximation of a songs root key, I also use it to quickly find the BPM of a batch of new tunes. However, I know that not all of us can afford an entirely new program for finding the BPM of a song.

In this Ableton Live tutorial I demonstrate a fairly quick and painless way of using warp markers to find the BPM of a loop or an entire song. Let's go!!

Step One : Make sure the file is ready to be warped

Make sure that the file is ready to be warped properly. That means there is only one warp marker on the grid. A quick way to make sure that happens is to turn of warping and then turn it back on.

Step Two : Find the first beat of a bar

Next play the audio file until there is a clear first beat of a bar. Usually that is when the kick drum first happens, obviously not if it is a fill though ;) Add a warp marker there!

Step 3 : Define the one drop

Now, double click on the other warp marker to remove it. You should only have the marker you just added on the one beat. Go to that warp marker and right click and select Set 1.1.1 here.
Step 4 : Count out a bar, or two..

Now you want to launch the clip from the new starting point and count out a bar, or two, or four. Make a visually note about which part of the waveform is on the new bar. Then add a warp maker there. Next move the warp maker to the correct number on the warping grid. Two, if you counted out one bar, 5 if you counted out 4 bars.

Step 5 : Look at the Seg. BPM

Now, if you did it correctly, just look at the Segment BPM of the clip and it will tell you the estimated BPM. If the clip is from this year or somewhere close you can be sure it is pretty close, maybe just round to the nearest whole number.

Step 6 : Setting the New BPM

Now. Double click the second warp maker. The Seg. BPM will change back to its original state. Go to the Seg. BPM box and manually enter the BPM you got from the steps above. BOOM! You now have a warpped file at the new / correct BPM!
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hey man so you're using mixed in key to find the key of all samples like one shot & loops... is it accurate??? i own a copy of mixed in key bt never tried it on samples??? your thoughts please...

anujverma

Thanks. Exactly what I was looking for! 👍

damienwoods

that is the most amazing vid I've ever seen in my life. I've only been trying to figure this out for 3.4 years.

johnnyroc

straight to the piont thx mate thumps up

DeejayWilly

awesome technique fam! i just found your channel and I'm so happy that i did because i am new to Ableton. thanks for sharing.

LogicDaBeatman

Thanks a lot, man, this is life-changing!
So freaking lame for Ableton to detect the BPM so poorly, and to offer "beats" to distort the tempo of the whole sample.

phil-pir

Save the clip you edited then import it--along with the original--into a genuine audio editor, like Audacity, to compare the two. You will then see that the use of warp markers significantly changes the tempo...clip length. So while the steps you offer may be useful for other purposes, like syncing beats to a set tempo (quantization effect!), they cannot be used to determine the tempo of an audio file. But thanks for the excellent presentation.

TheBinaryWolf

So are you detecting BPM or warping this? At 3:20 you drag and warp and it gives you a bpm of 112. What if you don't want to warp? It seems to me this is a video of warping your track to line everything up with measures, not just to detect Bpm. Confusing.

thechroniclesofmoo

The reverb on his voice made me feel like i was in church xD

Hi.Jay.Low

do we determine our own bpm if we aren't using a drum sample? I don't sample drums, so I always keep mine at 120 and don't change it. Is that bad?

its_orry

Hi Joshua, please help ;) (Ableton)
I have first kick and set 1.1.1, find loop and adjusts go.
Now I CTRL + Z twice, my second marker back and BPM back to original.
Now i click on first marker and set my found BPM, but instead adjust the path for marker the marker still in the same position,
and the path moves and does not set the right pace ;(

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