[sdiy] Tap tempo & pulse/clock ideas needed

[Ingo Debus]

Am Sonntag, 21.03.04 um 22:49 Uhr schrieb Thomas Dunker:

> What old or
> new MIDI sequencers have tap tempo AND trig pulse output?

Logic has that feature, even in old versions (2.6.something), so I 
guess other sequencer programs have it too. You can use a key of the 
computer keyboard or a MIDI note for tapping. I'm not sure if the free 
version, Logic Fun, includes this too.

I tried it once, and it is definitely not easy. You can set a certain 
time window in which a tap is accepted. This does make sense, you don't 
want the tempo go up by a factor of 2 just because you have tapped one 
time too much. But it makes it difficult to change the tempo in the 
middle of a song, because you don't know if a tap has been ignored or 
not. If you change the tempo too abrupt, most taps are ignored. It gets 
worse when several musicians play together, and only one is tapping.

Ingo