About Kurtempo
We make one thing: a builder that takes a rider's own ride video and own music and turns them into a dressage freestyle, with each gait's music at the horse's tempo, timed against the level, and printed as a floor plan and a cue sheet.
Why it exists
A musical freestyle is the class many amateur riders most want to ride and least know how to prepare. A designer charges for the music, and doing it alone usually means a sound editor that knows nothing about horses, a metronome app, a stopwatch and a printed test sheet. The hard part is not the software; it is matching the music to the horse.
Kurtempo starts from the horse. You tap the tempo on your own video, gait by gait, and every number the builder uses comes from those taps and the rules on how it works. The music is stretched to fit without changing its pitch, and a stretch too far to sound right is refused unless you choose it on purpose.
What it is not
- Not a music service. It supplies no music; you bring tracks you own or may use.
- Not a federation or a judge. The levels reference is checked and dated, and is for planning only.
- Not a cloud editor. Your video and music never leave your device, and there is no account.
Kurtempo is not affiliated with the FEI, USDF, USEF, British Dressage or any federation, and does not supply music.
What it is built with
The time stretch is the Signalsmith Stretch library, used under the MIT licence; its licence ships with this site at signalsmith-stretch licence. The PDFs are drawn with pdf-lib (MIT), and the headings are set in Cormorant Garamond and the PDFs in Fraunces, both under the SIL Open Font License, at the font licences. No code under the LGPL or GPL is used. Everything else is written by us and runs in your browser.
On your phone
On an iPhone or iPad: open the site in Safari, tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen.
It then opens like an app, and works offline after your first visit.
Contact
Questions, corrections to the rules reference, or a level you would like added: [email protected]. Tell us the federation, the level and a link to the current test sheet, and we will check it and note the date.