hi was just wondering if anyone had any tips on how to make a practical metronome using pure data? thanks!

@rjp9 Hi thank you so much for your help. I've been working through your patches. I'm looking to build one myself only maybe a simpler model? I still want it to be presented graphically as an actual metronome. Thanks

@pdedel I thought that I would make you what you desire, because it is easy / not easy at all...........
thanks again to @rjp9 for the metronome, and I forget who for all of the rest....... sorry!
I wanted to point out that "structures" can be useful in a world of limited "guis"...........
metronome.zip
and I have just changed the metronome sound to more of a "tick"......
David.

@whale-av nice one!

@whale-av thank you so much thats amazing. how would i go about representing the beat as just a canvas flashing a colour? like a canvas flashing the bpm like your structure is? thanks

@pdedel That's a lot easier........ the colour block is a canvas, and you can look at it's properties and resize it. The two messages at bottom left send the colour number that corresponds to the red and green that you will see in that same properties box (starting at 0 -- the top left (white)...........
metroflash.pd ........ flip-flop colour
or
metroflash2.pd ......single colour flash / big bang flashing and changing size (modified since first posted!!)
David.

@whale-av hi david, for the metro flash is there a subpatch for the ;pd dsp 1? i cant seem to get mine to work. thanks!

@pdedel No, it is just a message sent directly to Pd that tells it to turn on the Audio (dsp)........ but you will still have to turn up the volume at the bottom of the patch to get the sound. If you want always to have the sound volume up when you open the patch then you will need to save the state of that fader.......... or send it a message at loadbang!
If you click a similar message......
[;
pd dsp 0(
then that would turn off the dsp......

Is that what you are asking, or is there something else not working? and if so in which patch?
David.

@pdedel You will figure it out........ but do post your own patch if you are too frustrated!
There are two very useful tools in Pd that you might not have seen...........

The objects [print] and even better [rawprint] which you can connect to any outlet and see what is being sent (it is printed to the terminal (main Pd window where the messages appear)..... If you need to use a few [print] objects then just name them...... e.g. [print why_not_working] and then you can tell the printouts apart.............
and on the menu at the top of the page you can select "edit" and then "magic glass" (you have to be in edit mode for it to work)............ "magic glass" allows you to see exactly what is going through the "string" by hovering your mouse pointer...... very very useful.....
David.