Hello everyone,

I hope someone will be able to help me. I would like to find out how to create some kind of patch, that could tell me the number of bangs per ms (I am using [fiddle]). I think that [metro 10] could be the timer for that calculator, but I don't know how to build such a patch.

Thanks for suggestions !

hello,
you might find it helpful to check out the 'help' on the [timer] object..

It explains all about logical time, real time & cpu time .. with practical examples

@moog1 said:

hello,
you might find it helpful to check out the 'help' on the [timer] object..

Thank you for advice.

@moog1 said:

It explains all about logical time, real time & cpu time .. with practical examples

Well, I have read about [timer], but the most important part for me is not to count TIME, but the number of bangs per some period of time. Like, for instance, I'd like to know how many different frequencies (the noise) are being played in 10 ms. Maybe it's possible to use timer for controlling something else that would lead to the calculator I would like to create, but now I do not think that it would be very useful to use it since expected result is a lil different OR maybe I lack of experience in PD, which is quite possible to be.

Ok .. well, how's about a counter then?

Are you running 'extended'?
If so, check out counters.pd (Item 13 in HelpMenu->Browser->Manuals->0.Intro)

It's basically

[bang<
|
[f]X[+ 1]
|
[34\

So .. count the bangs .. measure elapsed time .. divide time/bangs ..

That should do it? There could be many ways..
I won't include a patch .. if you can't get your patch working, perhaps someone will takea look at it

Just what I was thinking. You could simply use [metro] to measure the amount of elapsed time, as well as reset the counter. So if you have [metro 1000], you could use each bang from it to sample the counter to determine how many bangs per second, and also use that bang to reset the counter. Then, if you wanted to get the average bangs per second over a longer period of time, you could use something like [mean_n] to to get the bangs per second over n seconds.

The frequency of the update would simply be determined by the argument for [metro].

[metro 1000]
| \
| \
| [0(
| \
| [f 0]X[+ 1]
| /
[f ]
|
| <-- bangs over the last second
|
[mean_n 5] <-- average bangs per second over the last 5 seconds

The bangs go into the left inlet of the [f 0].