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Global Desk "Beat Tap Rate"

The current Beat Tap functionality on the H4 is a great feature, but how about taking it a few steps further? Currently we can only use Beat Tap on a chase and unfortunately, cannot apply that defined rate to the FX engine or Cue FX rate..

I was thinking of how useful a "Global Beat Tap" rate would be... Lemme explain my complete idea.

Somewhere on the desk give the user the ability to tap out a beat. This rate is then stored in the console as a "Global Beat Tap Rate" that can be linearly adjusted via an encoder, master rate wheel or re tapping out another rate. Then in each of the options settings in the Masters, Cues Or Scenes, give us a drop down to be able to select either, "Local Rate" (The rate defined only within that cue, master, or scene) or "Global Rate" (The global rate defined by the global beat tap or encoder wheels). Then also give us the ability after defining a rate source, to define a multiple of that rate, (like, 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x or even 0.5x, 0.25x etc) and also give us the option to offset that rate to apply it to a downbeat or upbeat. In addition and probably the most important feature of this request, is the ability to take the "Global Rate" and apply it to the FX within a cue, master or scene, not just a chase.

This feature set will give the programmer the ability to very quickly sync up a tempo and then quickly apply it anywhere in the desk at any multiple and any offset.

Please consider as this would be an amazing feature...

JB
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  • [QUOTE=Tnsquint1;72251]Would the global rate be the equivalent of a "palette" in that whenever the global tap time was updated it would update all cues using this feature which would be great for busking or would the global rate record hard values which would be great for individual song programming? Either way I like it.

    I'm not sure to be honest as HES has not replied at all to this post...

    The way I thought about it when I made the OP was....

    It would be nice to have a tempo rate that could be tapped out, just like the cuelist chase beat tap rate, that would be available to apply to an Effect, chase, cue rate etc anywhere on the desk... The most important feature would be the ability to apply this rate to the FX engine and also have the ability to change it's multiplier both up and down, change it's offset and edit it's rate on the fly... The idea is, that during performance programming or just live busking, you could tap out the tempo once for a song either live or in blind and then store that tempo on the desk, to be applied anywhere you have a tempo based look (Cues, Chases, Effects). The ability to be able to select a multiplier would be great too, just incase you want your hits to happen every other beat, or twice a beat, or even slightly offset from the beat so you could put a hit on the down or upbeat, or just adjust for DMX>Device latency.

    I think a tempo palette would be awesome, but I don't think HES would code for another directory just for this feature.
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  • [QUOTE=Tnsquint1;72251]Would the global rate be the equivalent of a "palette" in that whenever the global tap time was updated it would update all cues using this feature which would be great for busking or would the global rate record hard values which would be great for individual song programming? Either way I like it.

    I'm not sure to be honest as HES has not replied at all to this post...

    The way I thought about it when I made the OP was....

    It would be nice to have a tempo rate that could be tapped out, just like the cuelist chase beat tap rate, that would be available to apply to an Effect, chase, cue rate etc anywhere on the desk... The most important feature would be the ability to apply this rate to the FX engine and also have the ability to change it's multiplier both up and down, change it's offset and edit it's rate on the fly... The idea is, that during performance programming or just live busking, you could tap out the tempo once for a song either live or in blind and then store that tempo on the desk, to be applied anywhere you have a tempo based look (Cues, Chases, Effects). The ability to be able to select a multiplier would be great too, just incase you want your hits to happen every other beat, or twice a beat, or even slightly offset from the beat so you could put a hit on the down or upbeat, or just adjust for DMX>Device latency.

    I think a tempo palette would be awesome, but I don't think HES would code for another directory just for this feature.
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