How do you guys find the tempo of a sample?

[901_Rice_Street]

I do it by ear. I line up the start of the first hit of a song and let it play to the click and ajust as it plays. You have it exactly right by the end. Don't take long either, plus you can "actually listen" to the song while your doing it. Win, win.

 

[one-derkid]

I do it by ear. I line up the start of the first hit of a song and let it play to the click and ajust as it plays. You have it exactly right by the end. Don't take long either, plus you can "actually listen" to the song while your doing it. Win, win.

seems like the most practical. ive used this method numerous times.

 

[Xabiton]

why don't you guys just drag the audio clip onto the fruity loops playlist and use that instead of making its own pattern for the sample?

quite a few reasons why i dont. the biggest being that I dont use fruity loops. 2nd i prefer other methods and if i just wanted to loop something i would have looped it and played to the sample and not worried about tempo at all. There are also tools like mixmiester that will tell u the tempo of a song if u load it into it

 

[gageishere]

I just cut a 4 bar loop from the track i want to sample. Put it into FL and just adjust the tempo of the song until the loop is played perfect. And i don't mean that i adjust the tempo of the sample but of the projectfile you'r working in. For me it works perfect because that way i can detect the tempo real accurate.

^this

i just play out my main chops/melody and adjust the project's tempo from their and play until i get a damn near perfect loop

 

[myselff]

make a loop and fit it to a bar

 

[JesseGeneral]

I use tap tempo on my mpc, but when i sample in logic or cubase i just loop a 4 bar section and make it fit by ear.