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<blockquote data-quote="Robert Lofgren" data-source="post: 75104" data-attributes="member: 2447">Re: Tap Delay weirdness?Ok, I&#039;ve now played with the tap tempo feature for quite a while and found that I actually like the current implementation.The tap tempo works like this, according to my own findings. When you start tapping it will average all taps up to your last ten taps into a tempo. This process will restart when more than three seconds have elapsed since the last tap.The cool thing about this is that you can follow the music tempo change smoothly by just tapping away at the changing tempo!The led will almost not be in sync with the live music anyway regardless how how accurate your tapping is since the band tempo changes all the time anyway. And since it is averaging your taps then it can&#039;t sync the led to your taps either.I belive the issue many people are having with setting the tempo is that they initially tap too fast/slow in the beginning and don&#039;t realize that all the last ten taps are averaged. And if you don&#039;t wait for at least three seconds before trying to re-sync the tempo your i.e. two second delay before re-tapping, that delay will become included in the averaging making your tempo much slower than intended!But if you know all this beforehand, then I belive the tempo matching implementation is great.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Robert Lofgren, post: 75104, member: 2447"] Re: Tap Delay weirdness? Ok, I've now played with the tap tempo feature for quite a while and found that I actually like the current implementation. The tap tempo works like this, according to my own findings. When you start tapping it will average all taps up to your last ten taps into a tempo. This process will restart when more than three seconds have elapsed since the last tap. The cool thing about this is that you can follow the music tempo change smoothly by just tapping away at the changing tempo! The led will almost not be in sync with the live music anyway regardless how how accurate your tapping is since the band tempo changes all the time anyway. And since it is averaging your taps then it can't sync the led to your taps either. I belive the issue many people are having with setting the tempo is that they initially tap too fast/slow in the beginning and don't realize that all the last ten taps are averaged. And if you don't wait for at least three seconds before trying to re-sync the tempo your i.e. two second delay before re-tapping, that delay will become included in the averaging making your tempo much slower than intended! But if you know all this beforehand, then I belive the tempo matching implementation is great. [/QUOTE]

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