BPM input?

[Mattblack]

hi

I'm trialing the software without the hardware right now to see what features are available. I'm struggling to understand how the sound input works.

If you build a scene with time parameters (each step is X seconds for example), then how does Beats per minute help? What effect does each beat have? Is a beat considered one second? I'm totally lost.

If, for example, I want my strobe light to kick with every beat - is that possible?

Thanks
Matt

[support]

We suggest you to make a basic 4 channels chase scene, and to open the "dmx bargraph" window (right click in ControlBoard). Then you could easily see the steps running behaviour, when changing the "speed" options in Live.

[Mattblack]

aaaaah - that's what I needed! The DMX graph. Thanks, i can test much more now

[Mattblack]

Is it possible to trigger a button on each beat? Or only to change the speed by BPM?

I want to kick my strobes off with every beat as an example (and later more complicated stuff)

[support]

It is not possible to trigger buttons with BPM.
A button is supposed to trigger a dynamic scene, with background color change ; changing buttons at 180 bpm would be a bit fast for screen refresh.

It is possible to forward the steps of a scene with bpm.

[Mattblack]

I almost have it! Step one - strobes on, step two - strobes off.

If you set the button to auto bpm then the strobes will kick to the beat... just gotta first tap the button ON a beat.

It quickly skips and misses beats though and gets out of sync. Sometimes it gets to a quiet part of the song and stops on step one - so you're left with a flashing strobe turned on.

Dammit. :-/

Anything in development?

[Niffo]

"Auto BPM" function can not be perfectly accurate on all music types. You can also use the "Manual BPM" function to manual tap the BPM ...