think about whether to rename "bpm" into "beats"

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a web based livecoding environment

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think about whether to rename "bpm" into "beats" #30

Closed davidedc closed 11 years ago

davidedc commented 12 years ago

one one side, I find "bpm" to be too technical. On the other side, some friends tell me that it's actually quite "street" and "beats" wouldn't quite mean the same thing...

noio commented 11 years ago

"bpm" is perfect ;) Even iTunes has a column for "BPM" when browsing music.

davidedc commented 11 years ago

I've seen "tempo" in some other livecoding clip recently. What do you think about 'tempo' ?

noio commented 11 years ago

Definitely prefer bpm. I might be a techie but bpm is just immediately clear to me. Unless you want to do stuff like tempo fast.

davidedc commented 11 years ago

I'll just close this lingering issue. One day it will become clearer which (extra?) keywords we might require for defining rhythms and subtle differences between them, at the moment nothing comes to mind in terms of changing things...