timing in PD revolves around milliseconds. This is useful, as it gives you much more flexibility when it comes to programming timed operations, but personally I often need to use things that are synced together, and most other sound applications use BPM. Converting BPM to and from milliseconds is a simple mathematical equation, but I can never seem to remember it when it comes time to actually code the thing. SO.. here it is.
to convert from a BPM to a millisecond rate (that can be fed to a metro or whatever) do this:
[100\ this is a number box.. put the BPM here
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[expr 60000/$f1]
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[600\ this is how many MS there are between each beat, at 100 BPM
I often find that i need to divide the output of that equation by 2 or 4 (or even 8!) to get 8th or 16th notes.. but there it is.
notes~ 