The Pace Maker [musical beat recognition system]

Simplesmart stands poised to unleash one of the world's first tools designed to provide real-time feedback to musicians on their rhythm. The Pace Maker is a beat recognition device, which will provide a musician with information on the tempo at which he/she is playing. Although other devices exist to help musicians keep a steady rhythm (such as the metronome), Pace Maker will be the first device to unobtrusively aid a musician's rhythm without imposing a rigid form which they must follow. By reading the tempo of his/her playing off of an LCD screen, a musician will be able monitor the pace of a song through various tempo changes (something you could never do with a metronome), and choose to alter his/her tempo at will.