alersito

there is any way to know the current time in hh:mm:ss of a clip? because observing with "property playing_position" the live.api returns the number of the beat. but with the object "translate" we need bars:beats:units.

current-time-of-a-clip

Multiplying beats with 480 gives ticks which can be translated to bbu.

thanksss i didn't think about it. but you multiply with 480 because you are in 4/4. if you change for example in 3/4 you must not multiply with 480 right?

I had a similar problem some time ago when working on my DJ-patch, where I had to deal with tracks that have odd time signatures. My patch (normally used as abstraction inside my patches) takes signature numerator and denominator into concern and outputs the playing position in bars.beats.units in two different formats:

1) Position: The current playing position

2) Interval: The value of absoulte_clip_beat_time (I call it this way internally) as length/interval for loop calculations. Useless for playing positions, unless you like them zero-based (-:

1) Position: The current playing position
2) Interval: The value of absoulte_clip_beat_time (I call it this way internally) as length/interval for loop calculations. Useless for playing positions, unless you like them zero-based (-:

Yes, that looks like a proper general solution.

Current time of a clip??