how to get the frequency of bangs

piet

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Hello.
I'm on a really simple thing I can't solve.
I wanted to evaluate the frequency of an event, for instance , the space bar key presses.
This frequency would control the playback of a movie or a soundtrack.
So I tried to use a counter object but the result is not really efficient and playback is not smooth at all.
Do you have in mind any better solution to find the frequency of a bang?
Thanks

ćwiek

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maybe something like that will help you.

Luke Hall

Try using [timer]

Chris Muir

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piet

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thanks everybody, I did not know about timer, which is pretty handy to get BPM (thanks chris)
I still have gliches in my playback, Tried to smooth it with a line object but it s a bit noisy.

Luke Hall

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You might also want to try averaging the last few values so that you're not changing so abruptly each time you press the space bar, something like this might help: