Coffeepal, thanks for your comment. That’s actually a great suggestion. The new version is primarily a significant hardware upgrade; we were not contemplating any changes to the software or feature set. We are experiencing the same supply chain and labor shortage issues as the rest of the planet, and we may not have the resources to implement any changes to the software. But if I can pull it together, I might look into your suggestion.
There is this issue, hosever. The Altura MkII and MkII+ use an oscillator inside the micropcontroller to measure time, and these oscillators are not perfectly accurate or stable. Their notion of how long a second is can depend on other components and on voltage fluctuations. Thus, even if I keyed in a tempo of 120 BPM, you might actually get something a little faster or slower. Thus, if your Altura is performing along with a home studio full of stuff, after a minute or two of continuous play, the beat may begin to drift. On the other hand, if you are playing live, or only intermittently (as this device is usually played), then I think you would never notice a difference.
How do you envision using such a set-tempo, if it was available? What I am picturing is this: when you tap a tempo, the calculated BPM appears on the display for 3 seconds, during which time you can use the increment/decrement keys to adjust the tempo by integers.