I'm a student and I'm doing a potato project where potatoes behave as keyboards and you have sequencers which give u pre-made beats so u can make sum bangers.

The way I've made the sequencer is the simple one from Sound Simulator's tutorial.

Enough about me, I have a couple of questions:

• How can I see the exact number of BPM, not just guess it or visually see it? Like, how can I transform the pd number into a readable BPM counter.

• How can I make the selection of the beats happen? I was thinking of messing around with something like the sends, maybe? I'm not sure. I need a number/message that says to the sequencer how it should be played but in such way that if I change the number/message during the previous one, it doesn't stop playing (omg i'm so sorry for making you read this).

• Last question, I swear. I'm assuming that if I want to add some VST's in here I should put them before the DAC~. Is that the right approach? I want to use reverb, delay and some VST's that randomize things? The name in ableton is Slap Back.

Sorry for making u read all of this and thanks

Here is the sequenciator.pd

@kristas Here is a solution for BPM and one possible solution for pattern setting.....sequence.zip
.... along with a simple introduction to abstractions...... [instrument argument] is an abstraction, a patch that can be used many times and made individual by its arguments... what could be called a sub-routine.
Put another one if you need to..... e.g. [instrument tom1] and send a pattern list to [s pattern_tom1]
When you look inside [instrument] ... right-click open..... the $1 in an object is replaced by the argument (e.g. hihat) as the patch is opened.

There are many possible ways of organising list storage and recall (the patterns in the patch are set using lists in this case).
I have no experience of using VST's but someone will reply. However... yes.... if you want to hear them combined with the instrument sounds then their output must go to the [dac~] as the [dac~] is Pd's audio output.

It is not a good idea to have too many display gui's...... like bangs.... visible as they can slow down the patch and make it unresponsive. I have reduced them to one per instrument.
David.

P.S. You can remove the [list] objects and bypass them, and remove the [s new] and [r new] if you don't mind patterns changing immediately as you send new pattern messages.

you should look through all the audio examples on the help files - some people dont see them right away. bpm / microseconds per minute is 60000 60000 divided by metro something.

@whale-av when I saw that sequencer I thought u were a complete genious hehehe. Thanks for helping