Beattool

From English DMXCWiki

Description

The BeatTool extracts beat information from different sources and provides it to DMXControl. With beat information you can synchronise light Effects to music, e.g. the strobe light flashing to the beat of music.

The red bar in the form flashes anytime, if the BeatTool has detected a beat. The label below shows the time distance and the BPM value. You can click into this label in order to set manually a BPM value (e.g. if known from beat counter of an DJ mixer).

In Manual mode you have to click synchronised with beat of music on Tap-Button as long as you have reached a sufficient beat value (the median value of last 5 clicks is automatically computed, these values are shown below the Tap-button).

The Beat Tool can also import beat information from external programs WinAmp (via AVS and dedicated WinAmp AVS-Plugin) or BPM Studio.

User controls

• BPM display
  Click to the label for setting BPM value in manual mode.
• Sync Button
  With this button you can re-synchronise the beat onto the music, if a delay

occured.
On right hand of this button you can maally double or half the beat value.

• The Beattool supports three modes:
  • Manual
    You set beat value by yourself with Tap-Button.
  • WinAmp AVS-Plugin
    The beat is imported from dedicated WinAmp AVS-Plugin. With the slider the maximal BPM value can be configured, if the check box is activated
  • BPM-Studio
    DMXControl supports also an interface to external program BPM-Studio, which detects the beat. Here you can configure the query interval and the connection information to the host running BPM-Studio.