Tempo

The tempo settings are used to control the speed of any enabled effects applied to the projection (see MK2 effects wiki), e.g. The strobe effect will flash faster as you increase the BPM slider in the tempo menu, and flash slower when reducing the BPM slider.

The purpose of the tempo menu is mainly for live DJ effects while a music track is playing.

In order for the supplied MK2 effects to work to the beat of a music track you must first set the correct BPM, preferably using the tap BPM feature, then use the sync button to mark which beat is the first beat of a bar. Once this is done the MK2 effects will then be in sync with any music that is playing allowing the user (with the aid of an APC40 MK2 MIDI controller) to perform live adjustments to the projection using effects assigned to dials/faders on a MIDI controller.

The tempo menu can be accessed by going to Settings→Tempo when in either playlist or visualizer control mode.

The tempo can be set using the BPM slider, or can be set using the “Tap BPM” button.

Continuously pressing the “Tap BPM” button to the beat of any externally playing music track will allow the MK2 to calculate the actual BPM of the music.

The “Sync Beat” button will synchronize the beat to beat 1 of a 4 beat bar.

The tempo parameters also also MIDI mapped to the dedicated tempo buttons on an APC40 MK2 if using the factory supplied MIDI mappings.