Can someone clarify how this functionality works?
From the V9_news.pdf:
Beat
Each trigger forwards the chaser of one step.
Triggerable by :
- mouse
- keyboard (shift + crtl + space)
- OS volume mixer (Windows only). <<<-------------- THIS
- midi clock
- midi note
- external application
Does this mean an audio signal fed to a line-in input (on the Windows host running Showxpress) can be adjusted via the Windows mixer and be made to advance to the next step in the scene? I've read that the Auto-BPM setting (for Windows hosts) is now a hidden setting but how do you monitor the input signal without some kind of feedback from the GUI? (As in the past?)
I've seen support state that tracking BPM via an audio signal is not reliable - is there any planned attempt to address this in V9 or a future version? In my case I'm trying to track a live band via an entire band mix (or just drums) fed to a spare aux send from the board to an input on the Showexpress host.
I also just noticed the locked sticky post at the top of this forum regarding the MTF Showtechnic Sound 2 Light transmitter used for beat detection. The website appears to be down, has there been any advancement on the integration of this tool? The post makes mention of use with V9 (Showexpress presumably?)
Steve