Click Track....

[danny73]

Hi , is there a plugin to give a better BPM value ie with one or two decimal places , rather than the round value in the default version ?? I want to add a click track to sync with a track , then cut out everything but the first click , as so I can cue-in a quiet /faded-in intro etc.Might be something already there but i'm missing it ??

[steve]

There are ways to produce click tracks that are accurate to 1/48000 second per beat, but it's not particularly simple or useful.
For "cuing up" one pieces of audio with another it is much easier to just put each bit in its own track, then use the time shift tool to align them correctly.

[danny73]

Thanks Steve for reply but I don't actually use Audacity for mixing ( i use Mixvibes 3Dex) , but it is very handy for editing tracks to suit my needs. If you know of a link to describe the click track thing you mentioned, or can find time to explain it yourself, that woul be great !!

Dan

[steve]

but I don't actually use Audacity for mixing

You should try it - it's non-real time, but you can achieve great accuracy very easily.

or can find time to explain it yourself, that woul be great

In brief (and I'm using Audacity 1.3.4) - create a single click on an otherwise silent track - then trim that track to exactly the length that you want between clicks (for 120 bpm that would be 60/120 seconds per beat = 0.5 seconds, or 500 milliseconds). Then select that clip and use the "Repeat" effect to make the click track. For accuracy greater than 1 millisecond you would need to work out the duration in samples. To turn it into a single audio clip, select the whole track and use "Join" from the Edit menu.

If you're not so bothered about the mathematical accuracy, but just want to tempo match, you could create the click track to the nearest 1bpm from the Generate menu, then use one of the time stretch effects to make it a fraction faster or slower.