Stephen Mayer

Hi, I am new to both MaxMSP and Max for Live. What I really want to do is clock everything in Live to a "swinging pendulum" / "bouncing ball" kind of metronome, where the tempo rises and falls in velocity. I found the Bouncing Metronome patch in Max for Live, which in many ways does what I want, but I would like it to function as the global tempo rather than each bang outputting note data to whatever instrument it is plugged into. If that isn't possible I would at least like it to just send a bang, rather than dictating the note played, since it's difficult to manipulate it into a melody when all I have to work with is the keyboard roll in the patch window. In the pasted patch I just removed the keyboard roll and note info, but of course now it doesn't send anything to the instruments. Is there a way to slave the global tempo to this patch?

help-bouncing-metronome

The "set tempo" part of Doubleug's patch could be replaced with something like this:

Thanks very much for your help! It's working great and I learned a lot looking at both of the patches.

Help - "Bouncing" Metronome