Problem with timer's frequency

General JUCE discussion
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Hello. My friend and me are making drum-machine using juce now and we need using of timers, but we have faced a problem. We need float frequency in our HighResTimer, but all timers in juce require only “int” type of frequency. What can we do with this problem or how can we solve it?

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Can you elaborate, what you intend to do with the HighResolutionTimer? It takes milliseconds as argument, and if that isn’t accurate enough, I have a gut feeling you are using it for the wrong purpose.
For sample accurate events, use the audio as synchronisation master, i.e. counting samples in the processBlock or getNextAudioBlock call.

HTH

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our drum-machine do not need to play audio, it must send midi messages with certain frequency, so we use timers for this purpose

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All startTimerHz does is divide the value by 1000 and call startTimer, you could do the same by adding a function like so…

void startTimerHz (float timerFrequencyHz) noexcept
{
    startTimer (roundToInt (1000.f / timerFrequencyHz));
}
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it helped a little bit, but it is still not enough accurately

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If you need pinpoint accuracy I think you’ll be better off handling it in processBlock, there is a MidiBuffer in there for reading/writing MIDI events.

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If you’re sending MIDI to an external device via a MidiOutput, then 1ms is accurate enough - any more precision will be lost by the MIDI drivers anyway. And HighResolutionTimer will do the job just fine (or you can use a high-priority thread yourself if you want to do slightly better)

If you’re building a plugin then you definitely do not want a timer of any sort - like the others who replied in this thread said, you should be counting samples because everything happens in blocks.

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