Tap Tempo
LMMS has a tap tempo tool, accessible under Tools > Tap Tempo.
This tool allows a user to find out the tempo they are clicking/tapping at.
It has a large square button that functions as the tempo readout, rectangular Reset and Sync buttons below it, Precision and Mute checkboxes, and two frequency readouts.
By default, the tempo readout updates as you tap, and makes a metronome sound.
Tap Tempo Button
This button is a large square and has a tempo readout in BPM. Clicking it or pressing the spacebar at a tempo will update the readout to display the tempo.
A gap of two seconds will reset the tap tempo back to 0 BPM.
Tempo Operations
Reset: The Reset button resets the tempo readout.
Sync: The Sync button changes the TEMPO of the track to the current tempo readout displayed on the Tap Tempo Button.
Tap Tempo Modes
Precision: The Precision checkbox displays the tempo more precisely, with one decimal place of precision (10-1). The LMMS song TEMPO cannot be a non-integer, so syncing it will round it to the closest integer.
Mute: The Mute checkbox mutes the tool, silencing the default metronome sound that plays during tapping.
Extra Readouts
There are two additional readouts.
The millisecond readout displays the BPM in milliseconds, and shows the average gap between two taps with the readout tempo.
The frequency readout displays the BPM as the average frequency in Hz (cycles per second) given the readout tempo.
The millisecond readout displays the average gap derived from the BPM. It does NOT display the interval between the current and previous gap.
The tap tempo tool calculates the BPM by taking into consideration the last three taps, except when starting to tap or when there is variation of more than 100 BPM. Suddenly switching tempo may take three taps to stabilize the readout.
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