beat manpage
COMMAND
beat
-- Analyze rhythmic information of **kern data.
SYNOPSIS
beat
[-a
]
[-b
rhythm
]
[-z
]
[-d
| -s
]
[
input
]
[>
output
]
OPTIONS
-a
Append analysis data to input lines.
-b
rhythm
Specify the beat rhythm. For example use
-b 2
for cut-time, and
-b 4.
for compound meters such as 6/8.
-d
Analyze the duration of each line rather than the beat position.
-s
Sum the duration of music in each measure.
-z
Start counting beats from 0 rather than 1.
EXAMPLES
Example usages of the
beat
program are avaliable on the
beat examples page
.
DOWNLOAD
The compiled
beat
program can be downloaded for the following platforms:
Linux
(i386 processors) compiled on 9 Jun 2006.
Mac OSX
(version 10.2 and higher) compiled on 6 Sep 2004.
Windows
compiled on May 28 2002.
The source code for the program was last modified on 26 May 2002.
