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Markers on the hits

Select a song and press Ctrl+Shift+B. The big hits get a marker. Ask for every hit and the small ones get their own, in the colours you choose.

How it works

Select the music clip.
Press Ctrl+Shift+B.
Cut on the markers, or let it place your clips on them. Set how many hits and the colours once in the panel.

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Big hits by default. Every hit adds the small ones with their own marker; One a bar keeps it sparse.

Cut at most every half beat, beat, two beats or bar, so a busy song doesn't drown in markers.

Every beat, bar starts or every other bar, when you'd rather cut on the count.

Pick the colour and name of each kind, and clip or sequence markers. Running it again replaces only its own.

Select clips in a bin and drop them onto the markers, on a free track. Nothing on your timeline is overwritten.

Hits, not just a grid. Most beat tools mark every beat, whether anything happens there or not. Beat Imp marks where the music hits, and does a grid when you want one.
Gets the big ones. On three songs we checked by ear, the default marked 74 of the 77 big hits, with no extra markers.
Finds more, adds less. In our test of 59 hits across 5 songs, labelled by us, Beat Imp found 46 with 3 extra markers. Beat Marker Panel's "every hit" mode found 34 with 12 extra.
One shortcut. No separate window, no WAV export. BeatEdit takes four steps or more.
Ranked. Big and small hits look different, so the strong moments stand out.