Set the tempo for the code block

with_bpm

[bpm (number)]

Sets the tempo in bpm (beats per minute) for everything in the given block. Affects all containing calls to sleep and all temporal synth arguments which will be scaled to match the new bpm. See also use_bpm

Introduced in v2.0.0 

Example 0 


# default tempo is 60 bpm
4.times do
  sample :drum_bass_hard
  sleep 1
end

sleep 5

# with_bpm sets a tempo for everything between do ... end (a block)
# Hear how it gets faster?
with_bpm 120 do 
  4.times do
    sample :drum_bass_hard
    sleep 1
  end
end

sleep 5

# bpm goes back to normal
4.times do
  sample :drum_bass_hard
  sleep 1
end



 
 
 
 
 # sleeps for 1 second
 
 
 # sleeps for 5 seconds
 
 
 
 # set bpm to be twice as fast
 
 
 # now sleeps for 0.5 seconds
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 # sleeps for 1 second