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On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 02:29 -0400, Spencer Russell wrote:

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Is there a set of objects for expressing beat-relative timing? I’m thinking of a [beatclock] that sends out beat messages and a set of objects like [beatmetro], [beatdelay~], etc. that act like their ms-based counterparts but receive the beat clock and respond to tempo changes. Probably a general-pupose [beatms] that just outputs the beat period in ms for use with objects that aren’t wrapped in the library.

Spencer, check out my patch Context, I think it does some of what you're looking for. Coefficient mode lets you determine timing by the denominator, so you can get half notes, quarter notes, etc. Here it is:

http://contextsequencer.wordpress.com/

You'll need PD Extended, though.

I've made an object that play list sequences, it can sync to itself, this object has been made to play something else than binary rythms, and it works like tabla language. If you are interested I'll attach it.

Patrice, could you post this? I have an interest in tabla, so I'd like to see what you've come up with.