Discussion: tempo features

[georgkrause]

I thought about some tempo enhancements and talked to @geraldmwangi in short yesterday. here are the results.

From my point of view these are the problems:

• in my opinion Luppp is at the moment kind of unflexible on tempo stuff
• Luppp only supports 4th bars
• the tempo tab button can set the speed but cannot set the first beat of a bar
• syncing Luppp to other software isnt easy and nice
• tempo problems: #128 and @Vampouille mentioned something...

Ideas:

• [ ] @geraldmwangi want to implement a 'nudge' button to set the first beat to the moment of the click (#147)
• [ ] some kind of beat detection on input may be great (related to #65 ?)
• [ ] full synchronisation to other jack clients (eg Hydrogen, #113)
• [ ] implement other bars (#126)
• [ ] starting record with other loops in scene (#119)
• [ ] there is #81 which does something i dont understand :D
• [ ] record N beats (#101)

I know, these are pretty different topics and there are issues for nearly everyone, but i wanted to create a general overview. if there is a full concept we can split this into smaller problems.

[geraldmwangi]

In my opinion the features: Other bars #126, For complicated bars (7/8) more metronome sounds (new idea) slave transport #113 nudge button

belong to a rework of TimeManager class, which would take some time

[geraldmwangi]

The way I envision the new TimeManager class is that one can set per scene the tempo, bar measure and possibly other parameters. So I could say scene 1 has bpm 90, 5/4 (aka some quirky rythm for the vers) and scene2 has bpm 105, 4/4 (uptempo four-to-the-floor for the refrain).

[mxmilkiib]

Relatedly, decimal bpm to two places would be very helpful for syncing with an external source.