MIDI Kinetics Forum

dear all,

tomorrow i have a performance, and i would like to do a simple thing, but i am not able to accomplish it. i want this monitor object to display a count down from 120 to 0, using midi sync clock of ableton live as source.

the ideal would be to have a count of 2 minutes and seconds, but i now this would take more work, so i would appreciate if anyone out there can help me to write the script that would display 120 when i press play in ableton live, and start counting backwards to 0.

here i attach the project: one thousand thanks!

david

I dont get it.....if you want to count time (i.e minutes, seconds) how is a midi clock going to help you without having a way to read the BPM from Live, do the math and extract time from BPM and measures?

And if so....why not simply use the built-in "time" variable of Lemur? (page 124 of pdf Lemur manual)

@softcore thanks for your reply. yeah, live sending 60 bpm makes the trick for showing secs. in my screen, but i just was wondering if there was an easier way to show minutes:seconds,
because i didn't want to spend two days trying to build it with expresions and so on, as i am very bad with it.

So....this doesnt suite you?

yeah! that's it. thanks a lot for that.
the truth is i had a performance that day, and the audience had to watch this tempo. but i had to do it with a watch, as i was not able to do this.

just one more question, would it be possible to make a count down?? setting manually let's say 2 minutes, and stoping when reaching 0??

thanks once more.

To set the count down time, set desired time in "count" expression (in seconds)....In the example, 120 is used (2 minutes)

@softcore thanks a lot!

excuse my delay, but that performance already happened and i had to use something else, anyway i will use this in the future.