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This patch demonstrates a simple video file player with simple controls. 

The example demonstrates a simple way to play an audio file. 

This example demonstrates how to retrieve the timescale and duration values associated with a movie file. 

Use the timer object to measure the time between when you turn on recording and when you stop recording.

To create a poly-rhythm generator, this example chooses a division and articulates every attack point of that division. Use a metro synched to the transport to specify the divisions (or the tempo object, if preferred), and then use a counter (or a % object with the output of tempo) to specify the articulation points.

To better understand the function of a mtof object, it can be recreated with an expr object. There are very slight differences between the output of mtof and expr. The differences are pretty minuscule and should not be a problem in most cases, as they are on the order of a few 1/10,000ths of a Hz.

To sync an LFO to the onset of a note, drive it with a phasor~ object. Send a phase value of "0" into the right inlet of phasor~ when the note starts, as seen in this example.

This exmaple demonstrates how to synchronize MIDI note length with a tempo determined by the transport object. The translate object has a "transport" attribute which allows control through the transport object.

Is it possible to see decibel values that start at 0 dB so that the values are all positive? Yes, you just need to decide what you want to use as your 0 dB reference amplitude. In digital audio, an amplitude of 1 is used as the 0 dB reference. In measuring real-world sound, the human threshold of hearing at 1 KHz (something like .0002 microbar) is usually used as the 0 dB reference value. Here’s an example using (roughly) the smallest obtainable nonzero amplitude in a 16-bit signal as the reference value, yielding a scale from about 0 to 90 dB.