Sound.Tidal.Safe.Boot

Resets the cycle count back to 0. Useful to make sure a pattern or set of patterns start from the beginning:

do
  resetCycles
  d1 $ s "bd hh hh hh"
  d2 $ s "ade" # cut 1

Cycle count affects all patterns, so if there are any active, all of them will immediately jump to the beginning. resetCycles is also userful in multi-user Tidal.

Also see setCycle, getnow.

Adjusts the number of cycles per second, i.e., tempo. Accepts integers, decimals, and fractions.

The default number of cycles per second is 0.5625, equivalent to 135/60/4, i.e., 135 beats per minute if there are 4 beats per cycle.

Representing cycles per second using fractions has the advantage of being more human-readable and more closely aligned with how tempo is commonly represented in music as beats per minute (bpm). For example, techno has a typical range of 120-140 bpm and house has a range of 115-130 bpm. To set the tempo in Tidal to fast house, e.g.,: setcps (130/60/4).

The following sound the same:

setcps (130/60/4)
d1 $ n "1" # s "kick kick kick kick"

and

setcps (130/60/1)
d1 $ n "1" # s "kick"