BeatAtlas 1.2.0: release notes

What's new in 1.2.0

Song structure. After the analysis, BeatAtlas names the song's parts in the sections band, each starting on a bar line: Intro, Build, Drop, Breakdown and Outro, or Verse and Chorus in a song without drops. A new Energy lane shows how intense the song is from moment to moment, so builds, drops and quiet parts are easy to see. Rename, move or delete parts as before: what you change is yours, and a re-analysis leaves it alone. Detect sections and Re-analyse the song are in the sections band's menu, and a setting turns the detection off.
Suggest cues (Ctrl+Shift+M, or the spark button in the tool bar). One click drafts a cue list: a marker at the start of each part, named after it, and a few at standout fills and hits. You see them first as a preview, choose Few, Normal or Many, and add them in one step (Ctrl+Z takes them all back). Then delete or rename what you like. Suggesting again replaces only the suggestions you have not changed. Show mode counts down to them, and they export like any marker.
The names are a starting point, worked out from loudness, repetition and position rather than from the song's meaning: check them against the music.

What's new in 1.1.0. Show mode (Shift+F), and in REAPER: Apply to REAPER project, Use this track's audio, the song's place in the project, Check REAPER's grid, and the click on your DAW's beats.

What it does. BeatAtlas listens to a song and finds its beats, bars and time signatures (also where they change), its parts and their energy, and the hits of kick, snare, hi-hat and bass. Mark the song up while it plays (markers snap to the beats or hits), or let Suggest cues draft the markers for you; see every marker in a list with exact times and timecode; and export marker CSVs for REAPER and MagicQ, a cue list, a MIDI tempo map, a timecode (LTC) WAV and a click track. Standalone program and VST3 plugin.

Installing. The installer is not signed yet, so Windows warns that its publisher is unknown: click "More info", then "Run anyway". Needs Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) and the free Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable (x64). Choose "Install for me only" unless several people use the PC; REAPER finds the plugin there by default.

Licence. Try it free for 7 days (the demo needs the internet once), then buy a key. A key works on 2 computers and covers version 1 with all 1.x updates, including this one. BeatAtlas works offline and checks in once every 30 days; audio and file names never leave your PC.

Known limits

Windows only. Beats and bars cannot be edited by hand; markers and parts can.
Quiet passages can be read at half speed (say 55 instead of 110 BPM).
Song files with suggested cues need BeatAtlas 1.2.0 or later.
The timecode WAV and the cue list have not been tried on a console yet; the MIDI tempo map was checked in REAPER only.
One song at a time.