Using RE3, I’ve just added the Beat Intensity tag to my harmonic beat mixing collection. All my software is custom made for live mixing and I’m trying to assimilate Beat Intensity. So far I’ve sorted my large playlist by a five value Beat Intensity, Camelot Key, BPM then Genre. I’m using the reduced RE3 values of Beat Intensity, namely (1)Very Low 01-36, (2)Low 37-52, (3)Medium 53-68, (4)High 69-84, (5)Very High 85-99 and this playlist is fine for using statically on my phone. On my main live mixing computer I have two instances of this playlist and items are selected in accordance with what is playing. I currently restrict playing of tracks that are within 6% of BPM and above 3% I then marshal further choices from a database.
My question regarding Beat Intensity is what maximum difference should I initially allow for selection based on the actual two digit Beat Intensity values. If it’s too small then I get locked into a certain portion of my playlist and if it’s too large there’s no point using it.
Unless you are referring to the Energy and Strength as relatable in music theory. Than they are recordable and replicable principles. The same can be stated about both emotion and progression.
Yes, RE3 is Rapid Evolution 3. Beat Intensity takes longer to calculate than either BPM or Key and I left it out until I got my Ryzen 1700x with all my music on SSD. Even then it took a full week to calculate. There are other metrics like “danceability” which RE3 doesn’t have so I’m working with what I’ve got. As there seems to be little experience, to start with, my coding will allow tracks in the same or adjacent Beat Intensity range. My 6% BPM cut off allows for next tracks with 2x BPM and 1.5x BPM(syncopated?) up or down combinations. This means that a match can be found using only a few random selections from which a database marshals candidates by compatible key and other criteria. When the actual BPM varies 3% or less then the two playlists advance in a groove. Tracks start when the second hand is on zero or thirty during the last half minute of play providing long crossfades during the remainder of the current track.
Constantly playing music for myself is the only way I can cope with a severe case of tinnitus. For several hours in the morning, I also need the music to play while I am listening to a text reader into which I bring books, articles, and the news. I can’t see well enough to keep my eyes focused on a screen. I found, after adding a constraint to only select from adjacent beat intensities, there was too much fixation, but simply prefixing the major playlist sort criteria by beat intensity this seems to give me exactly what I was hoping for. Think of it this way: For a dance floor the DJ compresses musical entrainment to a crowd in a very short space of time. With my couple of years worth of music, from the soundtrack of my life, I allow the swings of my moods and emotions to be entrained by my computer as it meanders across my playlist over a longer period.
