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As a refugee here from the now-deceased Sounds and also Looperman (which no longer really caters for my needs), may I just pose the question why so many contributors go to such wonderful lengths to create their samples and upload all the technical details - but then leave out the BPM? For me, other than ambient type samples, the BPL is essential.

It's like writing a birthday card to your best friend, putting it in an envelope, putting a stamp on it and then not bothering to send it.....

Most modern DAWs let you dynamically adjust the speed of an item. In Reaper, I can just hold alt and then click-drag the edge of an item to make it any length I want. So, assuming the loop is seamless, all I have to do is drag that right edge to the bar and then it's in time.

Maybe, but it's so much easier to have the BPM in the first place. I guess I'm so used to having it automatically provided by those making loops and samples that I really miss it and it just surprises me that so many samples here don't have it provided.

Yes, a little work by a creator can save a lot of collective time for those who make use of the creations. But if you've spent much time looking around here, you will have seen that not many people take the potential of this website seriously...

Well, here are a couple of beats, in any case. https://freesound.org/people/strangehorizon/packs/33071/

Some major problems I see these days with sound creators on freesound and other places is they don't compensate for plugin delay, leaving sometimes as high as 200ms of silence at the beginning of recordings out of the DAW.
When the above scenario happens, calculate the exact amount of delay at the beginning, select it and delete it, add the amount of ms in delay from the beginning and select ahead of the first loop and you should have proper bpm of the sound granted the loop goes on after the first and you can select that sound data.

FL Studio has a neat feature where you can import the sound with a unknown bpm, open the sound and navigate to the time knob and right click, below select 2 bar, or 4 bar to help get and almost exact bpm, its helpful but now always accurate.

I noticed you asked me about the BPM's of some of my older sounds, back in those days I was unfamiliar with how useful the respect of sharing the bpm was until just a few years ago. I have updated those sounds to their proper bpms but some sounds can't really have a bpm such as ambient landscape pads like the one you requested on, I suppose you theoretically could call a bpm on it but its more of a filler sound rather for beat matching.

J.P

strangehorizon wrote:
Yes, a little work by a creator can save a lot of collective time for those who make use of the creations. But if you've spent much time looking around here, you will have seen that not many people take the potential of this website seriously...

Well, here are a couple of beats, in any case. https://freesound.org/people/strangehorizon/packs/33071/

I think you're right.

Thanks for the link.