Hi PD,

I'd like to plot metro's output using textfile object in a way that the result shows the bangs as 1's and all the other "output", if any, as 0's. This way I can visualize the temporal distribution of the bangs over a test period.

However, metro only outputs bangs on the "1"s and otherwise outputs nothing, so I can't figure out how to achieve my goal.

I wonder if there is a standard way of doing what I want.

Thanks!

@kakyoism Hello!
As you say, Metro only outputs bangs...........
You can let the bang "bang" a message [1( and you will print a series of "1"s.......

So as you want to see the bangs in "time".........
Output a "1" at every bang with your main metro...... and use another fill in the ticks in the gaps so that you have a trace of the bangs in time. For that you need a second metro banging zero's every whatever you want your scale to be.
Say you bang "1" every 5 milliseconds..... you will want another metro banging a zero every millisecond and then add the two together........ so that you have your sequence.....
1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0........etc.
Maybe?
Well its not quite as easy as that....... but its not very difficult....
seq_uence.pd
David.

I would suggest that making a counter would be a simpler solution, and probably easier if you wanted to change the count (just alter the mod).

@LiamG That's better Liam........ In my excitement I completely forgot about true/false!
....... although for more complex timelines your solution will not work......... i.e. a bang every 1532 ms on a scale of 300......... as it prints a series, and not a timeline........
David.

@LiamG @whale-av thank you both!

I do need a complex timeline, and my metro of interest can be stopped and restarted at any time. So i really need an "observer" or a reference timeline. Looks like there is no way around having a second metro.

maybe some hacking with [timer] or [realtime]. if you bang the time when you start, and than whenever you stop and start again, you substract the drawn time? just ideas..

I might have misunderstood, but would it be something like this

i.e. the output is the position of each bang along a timeline in milliseconds, which could then be plotted as positions along a graph