liveBPM - Beat Detector
$3.99
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About liveBPM - Beat Detector
Sharpen your sense of time! liveBPM is the tempo monitoring tool for drummers, bands and DJs. It detects music and beats via the microphone and continuously displays the current tempo in beats per minute (BPM). It is easy to use and delivers high-quality results while being energy efficient.
★★★ Detailed Description ★★★
This is a tool designed for professional use:
- Well-tested beat detection engine guarantees trustworthiness
- Can handle most genres. Produces the best results under the following conditions:
-- The tempo is constant or almost constant
-- Strong impulses are defining the beat (drums, accentuated rhythm instruments like bass/guitar, etc.)
-- Time signature is 4/4, 3/4 or a multiple of either of these
- If the music meets these conditions liveBPM will produce results accurate to within 0.1 BPM
Further features:
- Tempo curve shows the development of tempo over time
- Multiple zoom modes to show last 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 15, 20 or 30 minutes
- Advanced audio spectrum analysis via FFT
- More accessible and usually more accurate than BPM counters that function through tapping
- Relatively low battery drain thanks to high performance code and efficient algorithms
Using it as a musician:
- Use it as an objective tempo reference like a metronome
- It actually has several advantages over a metronome:
-- You are not tied to a click, giving you more flexibility
-- Helps you use tempo changes to enhance your musical expression
-- With blind tests, it can massively improve your timing confidence, which is especially important if you are in a tempo leading role (e.g. drummer)
- Discover how/whether your favorite artists use tempo changes
- Measure and improve your time-keeping skills
- Identify slowdowns and speedups while practicing your instrument
- Always be in control of the tempo during your live gigs and rehearsals
Controls:
- Power Button: For freezing the tempo curve and minimizing battery drain
- Clear Button: Clears the tempo curve
- Slider: Adjusts the target tempo, ranging from 60 to 200 BPM
- Zoom Buttons: Switch between zoom modes for the tempo curve. (2-30 minutes)
Note: In cases where the music is characterized by soft impulses, you may improve the detection by clapping loud to the beat. Also, results can be improved by plugging in a suitable external microphone pointing to the beat-defining elements of your band setup.
★★★ Detailed Description ★★★
This is a tool designed for professional use:
- Well-tested beat detection engine guarantees trustworthiness
- Can handle most genres. Produces the best results under the following conditions:
-- The tempo is constant or almost constant
-- Strong impulses are defining the beat (drums, accentuated rhythm instruments like bass/guitar, etc.)
-- Time signature is 4/4, 3/4 or a multiple of either of these
- If the music meets these conditions liveBPM will produce results accurate to within 0.1 BPM
Further features:
- Tempo curve shows the development of tempo over time
- Multiple zoom modes to show last 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 15, 20 or 30 minutes
- Advanced audio spectrum analysis via FFT
- More accessible and usually more accurate than BPM counters that function through tapping
- Relatively low battery drain thanks to high performance code and efficient algorithms
Using it as a musician:
- Use it as an objective tempo reference like a metronome
- It actually has several advantages over a metronome:
-- You are not tied to a click, giving you more flexibility
-- Helps you use tempo changes to enhance your musical expression
-- With blind tests, it can massively improve your timing confidence, which is especially important if you are in a tempo leading role (e.g. drummer)
- Discover how/whether your favorite artists use tempo changes
- Measure and improve your time-keeping skills
- Identify slowdowns and speedups while practicing your instrument
- Always be in control of the tempo during your live gigs and rehearsals
Controls:
- Power Button: For freezing the tempo curve and minimizing battery drain
- Clear Button: Clears the tempo curve
- Slider: Adjusts the target tempo, ranging from 60 to 200 BPM
- Zoom Buttons: Switch between zoom modes for the tempo curve. (2-30 minutes)
Note: In cases where the music is characterized by soft impulses, you may improve the detection by clapping loud to the beat. Also, results can be improved by plugging in a suitable external microphone pointing to the beat-defining elements of your band setup.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
- added a privacy policy to meet new Google Play requirements
- added native support for arm64-v8a and x86
Version 2.0 is work in progress and will go into beta testing fairly soon.
- added a privacy policy to meet new Google Play requirements
- added native support for arm64-v8a and x86
Version 2.0 is work in progress and will go into beta testing fairly soon.
More downloads liveBPM - Beat Detector reached 5 000 - 10 000 downloads
Name changed Name changed! live BPM - Beat Detector now is known as liveBPM - Beat Detector.
Price update Price changed from $2.99 to $3.99.
Price update Price changed from $3.99 to $2.99.
What are users saying about liveBPM - Beat Detector
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A must have! Works amazingly well. Still the only app of its kind that will give you a graph. I'm a drummer, it helps to keep me honest about my time.
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I am unable to install on my Pixel with Android 8.0 (Oreo). It is stuck at 100%.
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This is a great tool for individual & ensembles. I use it on my small gigs & use it on my HS marching percussion group.
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worth - every - penny.
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Brilliant for any drummer/ musician
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Love it
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I just started using the app and like it already. It will help me learn to keep steady when practicing my Hanon scales as well as the rest of my lessons. Sometimes the app halves or doubles the BPM depending on what it hears or how I play. This may end up helping me with dynamics. I used to wonder if an app like this existed. Glad I found this one.
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Does not work with jazz drumming. Also seems to double the bpms at slow speeds.
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Fantastic product. Intuitive user interface. Well-worth the price for a gigging drummer. Thank you Daniel!
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Update: I have been using this for more than 3 years now, at least 2x a week for live performances... Nothing on android compares in actually HEARING tempo. Still awesome after 3 years.
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Tried several free ones that weren't too bad but not really as accurate or reliable as I needed. This one really found the tempo and held onto it. The timeline feature is worth the cost alone. I was able to play back some rough mixes and clearly see which ones had the better and the worse tempo variations. Very pleased with this app, I consider it the best of the bunch.
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It is good to practice with a metronome, but what do you do when you get out of sync? Here's the answer! This is a metronome that follows you instead of you following it. It's one of those rare tools that, one you've seen it, it's impossible to justify not working with it.
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by P####:
Great app, I have been using it for a while. But it stopped working since I updated my note 4 to Android 6. Please fix!!!!
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It does exactly what it tells : show you in real time the BPM it detect via the microphone. It's been years now that we use it with my rock band in rehearsal, on variety of devices, and it never failed.
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Works amazingly well. Still the only app of its kind that will give you a graph. I'm a drummer, it helps to keep me honest about my time.
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Just Great for arriving at a songs tempo, works much better than others things I've tried.. Quicker too! Thank You for a Great app..
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Brilliant piece of software. A really helpful tool for musicians. It helps me to see about where my BPM are in relation to my practice on a metronome. I also get to see how accurate other musicians are. ;-) Seems fairly accurate.
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A must-have for drummers....
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This app has helped me stay on target.
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Musthave!
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liveBRM
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I use this whenever I play a gig, and it helps me figure out where I'm rushing or dragging. It's also cool to turn it on and hide the screen and look at tempo fluctuations after each song.
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Just Buy It!! For keeping track of your tempo during live gigs, set it up for the drummer to see..Bang on tempo, Speedy Detection, No "sensors". Boom!
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Had some issues with it in the beginning.... but it was taken care of very quickly and efficiently... Get this app !
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It had one job. And it worked!
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by B####:
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Its not accurate when I drum slow it detects 196 but when I drum fast I get ---.
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I tested this app by holding it right next to a digital metronome. It reported 80 BPM as 160 BPM and 200 BPM as 100 BPM. The app seems to double or halve the true BPM to normalize the result so that it falls within some expected range. That's not what I need the app to do, so I returned it for a refund.
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I use it for drum and piano practice and it is on the money as far as live BPM detection!
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Use it all the time with the band!
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Works amazingly well. Still the only app of its kind that will give you a graph.
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Brilliant
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Awsome ...app :-) Thanks Dan !!!!!
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Since sliced bread. This is what God loves. BRAVO!
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I didn't think it would work after trying other apps but it does. Like magic. As a drummer i was worried about the high volumes but i had no issues with high sound levels at all. by some weird voodoo it can even get the tempo on free form jazz. A must for any drummer. Brilliant!!!
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Works amazingly well.
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Saved the day (night ) again. For got my phone at the gig Lucky was able to connect to wireless on my android tablet and download the app. Thanks Dan.
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In the past I have used a Temporef to monitor bpm, but now I am playing in a worship band and have been using cool rods which don't vibrate the snare head enough for the Temporef to pick up a signal. I was skeptical that liveBPM would be able to accurately pick out the tempo in a live music situation, but after trying it more than a few times I am very pleasantly surprised! It works great! I now use it every time I play (I have used it for several months now). Definitely worth the asking price. Great job!
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This app is just amazing in its stability and the range of music for which it can track the beat. (Obviously, just don't expect it to measure the beat of a single line of violin, as one reviewer thought it might! It needs something with an actual beat to listen to :) )
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Very useful app.
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Best thing since sliced bread. As a drummer, I sometimes get 'singers ' harping on about the song speeding up when it hasn't and it's all my fault because I. I'm supposed to keep time. Well, this app solves it all guys. It really works. Happy or what!!