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DropWave reads the key, the Camelot code, the tempo, the tuning, the loudness and the true peak of any track the moment you drop it in. These pages explain what each number means and what to do with it.

The readings

ReadingUnit
KeyTonic and mode, and the key of each section when it changesKey
Camelot1A–12A, 1B–12BCamelot wheel
TempoBPM, two decimal places, with the beat gridBPM
TuningCents from A = 440 HzKey
LoudnessLUFS, integratedLoudness
True peakdBTPTrue peak

Key and tempo each carry a confidence reading, counted from how many sections of the song agreed, and when two answers were close DropWave names the second one instead of hiding it. And you can check both by ear: Click on beats plays a metronome on the detected grid, and Hear key plays the key's chord at the track's own tuning.

Loudness and true peak are measured to ITU‑R BS.1770‑4, the standard streaming platforms normalise against, so the numbers mean the same thing here as everywhere else.

Or a whole pack at once

Drop a folder and every file lands in a table: key, Camelot, tempo, loudness and true peak per file. Sort it, search it, export it as CSV, or write the key and tempo into the file names. How →

Start here

The readings, one by one

Reference

Getting in

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