QuickShow FB3-QS User Manual page 47

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Audio input results not guaranteed (normal BPM system is believed to be better)
Almost every member of the Pangolin staff is a musician of some kind. And nobody on the Pangolin
staff really believes that a computer will ever be able to detect the beats within audio as well as a human
can. Often times music may have "double beats" or "tricky beats" which would fool computer
algorithms. So generally we do not believe in this computer-based technique.
As we have tried this audio input system and sent it to other customers to try, sometimes we see good
results and other times we see not-so-good results. In any event, we are including this feature in the
software as a kind of experiment. Users may use it or not.
As a final note, all of us on the Pangolin staff believe that tapping the space bar to the beat of the music
-- although not sounding very sexy or sophisticated -- is certainly an absolutely reliable method to pick
up the beat of the music. Simply tap the space bar 10 times and it will pick up the beat of the music and
hold the beat for minutes at a time. When the music changes, just tap some more and you will be able to
easily and reliably synchronize to the beat of the music.
Virtual Laser Jockey use within the QuickFX
The QuickFX portion of QuickShow also includes the same Virtual Laser Jockey features, which may be
used along with cue triggering explained above, or separately.