Some music was never
played to a click.
TempoMapper builds a beat grid against real audio — a live take, a rubato performance, a cue composed wild. Record or import, tap the tempo, and export a tempo-perfect MIDI map, click, and stems to your DAW.
Tap it. See it. Trust it.
The beat, exactly where it happened
Tap downbeats and beats while the audio plays — the grid, bar numbers, and time signatures write themselves, meter changes included. Then refine: drag an anchor, snap it to a transient, quantize a selection. The tempos recompute; the beats stay where the music put them.
Capture and map in the same pass
Record from any connected interface — multi-channel, with input-channel and output-pair selection, monitoring through any output. The waveform draws as you record, takes become stems automatically, and you can tap the tempo live while tracking.
Picture and performance, in step
Import a concert or scoring video: its audio becomes a stem, and the picture rides in a floating, resizable panel that follows the transport — frame-accurate while scrubbing. Map a live performance against exactly what happened on stage.
Out to your DAW, tempo-perfect
Bounce the tempo MIDI, a click, and every audible stem — aligned to bar one. Compound meters carry the felt beat, and Fine resolution traces every ritardando and accelerando as a smooth ramp with beats kept sample-exact.
One app. Three rescues.
Composer
You composed it wild — now the session needs bars, beats, and a click. Tap the map to your own performance and send the grid to your DAW or straight to CueConductor.
- Tap live while recording
- Odd & asymmetrical meters (7/8 as 2+2+3)
- Tempo ramps traced smoothly
- Bounce to DAW or CueBuilder™
Conductor / Music Prep
A recorded performance needs a conductable click — for a re-record, a live-to-picture show, or a hybrid set. Map the original recording and every bar lands where the orchestra played it.
- Map against concert video
- Meter changes detected while tapping
- Click in the felt beat (6/8 in two)
- Snap anchors to real transients
Producer
An AI-generated track, a live jam, a Smart Tempo guess gone wrong. Import the audio, fix the beats by hand in minutes, and export a corrected tempo track your session can actually follow.
- Rescue AI tracks with no grid
- Correct auto-detected tempo maps
- Per-stem transient detection
- Works on iPhone, iPad & Mac
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
Tap tempo, any meter
Tap on screen, on keys, or from a MIDI controller. Meters are detected as you tap — including asymmetrical patterns — and you tap the beat you actually conduct: quarter, dotted-quarter, half.
Precision editing
Drag, nudge, quantize, and snap anchors to detected transients. Note values are bar-local, so an eighth note means that bar's eighth through every rit, accel, and meter change.
Real recording I/O
Multi-channel interfaces, input-channel and output-pair selection, and independent monitoring — recording studio routing, not consumer-app routing.
Reference video
A floating, resizable video panel follows the transport frame-accurately, and the video's audio becomes an ordinary stem you can map against.
Self-contained projects
A project is a folder — recordings, imported audio, video, and waveforms live inside it. Move it, back it up, hand it off; nothing is ever lost or orphaned.
Tempo-perfect export
MIDI tempo map, click, and stems — aligned to bar one, felt-beat click hints included, with Fine resolution ramps for expressive tempo. Into any DAW, or straight to CueBuilder™.
From free take to locked grid.
Create a project
Record a performance straight into TempoMapper, or import stems, a bounce, or a video. Everything lives in one self-contained project folder.
Tap the tempo
Play the audio and tap downbeats and beats as you hear them — even live, while recording. Bars, beats, and meter changes appear as you go.
Refine the map
Zoom in and put every anchor exactly on the music — snap to transients, quantize, nudge. The grid recomputes around your edits.
Bounce it out
Export the tempo MIDI, click, and stems to any DAW — or hand the finished cue to CueConductor and take it to the podium.
From the first take to the downbeat.
TempoMapper is the front of a complete pipeline: map the tempo, build the cue in CueBuilder™, and conduct it live with CueConductor — stems, click, streamers, and video locked to one transport. TempoMapper is included in CueConductor with Pro, and available standalone.
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