ocillation

Could anyone give me a tip on how to sync an ocillation to the bpm of a track?
Thanks!

 

Take the 1/96 clock, scale it to your BPM-synced rate of choice, and run it through a sine module to get the wave. Or cosine or whatever your little heart desires.

 

Er, I think you mean the SOngPos, not the 1/96 clock which is just 1's and 0's, but still...

The two problems with this are;
- it's dependent on the sequencer running (which may be good thing as the osc will always be cycled at the same point in the same point of the track).

- It's running at the 1/96 clock rate - which is way worse than the event rate and way way worse than the audio rate. You could smooth it, but that's not always what you want.

I prefer setting the frquency using some multiple of the tempo-info module, and then using the SongPos divided-down as a trigger for the sync input of the oscillator.

See Koyaanisqatsi in the user lib for an LFO macro.
...or the "Files" section of my website (below)

- CList

 

Thankyou both : )

 

CList's solution is undoubtedly better (and yes I did mean songpos).

I should keep my mouth shut when it comes to matters of fixed tempos and traditional composition. ;-)

 

songpos audio works for this, and isn't time-quantised to 1/96th notes.

 

Mmmm, interesting, I'd never paid much attantion to that output of the SongPos, and I had always thought it output only whole numbers (which is not the case).

That's a good tip.

Personally tho, for an LFO, I prefer working at the event rate, which is the nice thing about the LFO-module.

- CList