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Just thinking of buying full version!

Archive · 2008 4 old posts

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Neurojazz ·

Hiya, Have been playing with SM today and having big problems with Host tempo sync (have sifted through the many related threads but can't find clear advice)

I'm a bit put off by the manuals brief overview of the VST modules/objects and the 'go check the haystack for the needle VST/SDK' - and no info on these modules within what is a great, clear and concise manual.

If anyone can point me towards an OSM or tutorial using these VST items within SM that show how to tap into the hosts tempo i'd be geting my wallet out promto for the full version! (as i'm not too clever with the deep stuff *yet*) - the rest of it seems to be explained clearly 🙂 Many Thanks for your time! Neuro.

nix ·

Hey there and welcome 🙂 , Maybe you need the ppq primitive. There is also the tempo primitive to give BPM. If you'd like to post up your .osm, hopefully someone here can help. Hope you find your solution, nix

Neurojazz ·

kk, thanks for that... i'm going to make a simple GUI that will try to tap into this tempo/bar divisions and learn how to get these to triggers (the basics i think for linking triggers to tempo 🙂 and i'll stick it up when i work out how!

TomC ·

Neurojazz wrote: Hiya, Have been playing with SM today and having big problems with Host tempo sync (have sifted through the many related threads but can't find clear advice) If anyone can point me towards an OSM or tutorial using these VST items within SM that show how to tap into the hosts tempo

Primitives you'll need:

Tempo: this provides you the hosts tempo in BPM, e.g 120 BPM (aka 2 beats per second).

TimeSig: This offers you numerator and denumerator of the songs time signature, e.g. 3 and 4 which translates to a 3/4 signature.

PPQ: this is the counter for quarter notes starting at 0. If you want to do something at each first beat of a 4/4 song you have to check if PPQ = 0, PPQ = 3, PPQ = 7 etc. For a 3/4 song it'll be 0, 2, 4, 6 etc.

Tom

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