strobe lights and tempo

[Gez]

On Sun, 22 Nov 1998 Aranakin at aol.com wrote:

> how does a strobe that flashes with the beat (like at a dance club) work?
> whatis the principal behind it and who would sell a kit that would allow you
> to build your own sound reponsive strobe light?
> anthony
> 

 Could the same principal be used for BPM calculation and MIDI colck
generation as the red sound systems beat extractor??  I understand that
BPM calculation is highly complex but I could do with finding a solution
to this problem.

 GEz