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Originally Posted by Chris Heinen
Hypex - the test tune example is "Always and Forever" by the group Heatwave (circa 1977). It's in 12x8 at about 50 to 51 BPM. I see from juliansader that this issue is a known one, and will be fixed in an upcoming release, so I'll hang on to my test project, retest with the newer release, and update this thread with results.
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It's just before my time to when I started listening to music so am not familiar with that one. Certainly wasn't the more upbeat techno song I was thinking of. :-)
So I looked it up myself and also tested. I've seen one score at 12/8 in 50 BPM. And another in 4/4 at 60 BPM.
I first tried with 4/4 and selected a bars worth of four beats. I got the same result as you did with the BPM being around 100.
I then tried 12/8 and selected a bars worth of 12 beats. It got close to the mark around 75 BPM but still off.
To make it easy I ended up cutting out the lead in for a clean start. But I noticed that Reaper liked to divide the bars into six beats on the grid regardless of time signature being set to 12.
I then tried with my own beat mapper. At 4/4 time it was able to map at around 50 BPM. But it only could do so with 12 beats between. Until it went of the mark. :-)
Next I redid it as 12/8 time per measure and it too was able to mark up a map around 50 BPM. Again it did go off the mark. And Reaper counted one bar as two.
I find the tab transient function quite useful when placing cursor to the next beat.
I also downloaded a midi file of the song to extract tempo from but as expected it was out of alignment. Having a midi file mapped to the same exact recording would help. Though they can have tempo marked in strange places.