# Metronome - Beats and Measures **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [March 26, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.xod.io/t/metronome-beats-and-measures/3682 "2020-03-26T20:18:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alwaysuptil1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@alwaysuptil1](https://forum.xod.io/u/alwaysuptil1)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.xod.io/t/metronome-beats-and-measures/3682/1 "2020-03-26T20:18:06Z")
Brand New to coding and XOD. I’ve done the tutorial but havent been able to get my head around trying to make a timer display beats and measures. I want to advance a digit every 4 pulses. I want to be able to see the pulses and I want to be able to adjust the number of pulses before the digit advances. 1: 1, 1:2, 1:3, 1:4, 2:1, 2:2, 2:3, 2:4, etcc… adding a click would be nice too! Any help is very much appreciated! ---
**Author:** ![gweimer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a9adbd/32.png) [@gweimer](https://forum.xod.io/u/gweimer)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.xod.io/t/metronome-beats-and-measures/3682/2 "2020-03-26T20:50:27Z")
A simple solution using count-to-n to generate beats: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/xod/original/2X/f/f039563a9202568f78fe6443b8b718f9890d8904.png) “count” only gets updated when count-to-n resets (when it has counted its N beats; 4 in this example). I don’t know what hardware you have, so I have no idea how you want to generate a click, but pulse-on-change output can be used to trigger the click. I’m guessing for music, you probably want to use a fractional count-to-n-T so beats are closer than 1 second apart as in this example. If you have something else generating beats, then you can’t use count-to-n, so you will have to build your own count circuit to count the beats. Here is one example: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/xod/original/2X/a/a865ca86a62105f193ca1d0ac19ac6565d052506.png) The top count node counts beats & resets when it reaches the desired number (greater-or-equal to 4 in this example). The same time it resets the beat counter, it increments the measure count node below. The click is triggered by the same output that triggers the count-INC for counting beats at the top. ---
**Author:** ![alwaysuptil1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@alwaysuptil1](https://forum.xod.io/u/alwaysuptil1)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.xod.io/t/metronome-beats-and-measures/3682/3 "2020-03-26T20:53:59Z")
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow! I can’t thank you enough! These are great and will be so helpful as I learn more about all of this. I’m 51 and just learning to code. I really can’t thank you enough. Sincerely, ~ C ---
**Author:** ![alwaysuptil1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@alwaysuptil1](https://forum.xod.io/u/alwaysuptil1)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.xod.io/t/metronome-beats-and-measures/3682/4 "2020-03-26T21:25:05Z")
What’s weird is that I don’t have either nodes: **count-to-n** or **greater-or-equal**. I’m going to research getting those into my desktop app. ---
**Author:** ![alwaysuptil1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@alwaysuptil1](https://forum.xod.io/u/alwaysuptil1)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.xod.io/t/metronome-beats-and-measures/3682/5 "2020-03-26T21:41:25Z")
found it. did a search and realized I didn’t have the [marcoaita/malibrary](https://xod.io/libs/marcoaita/malibrary) installed. went into my XOD Desktop app and under the File pulldown menu, there is ‘Add Library…’ typed in malibrary and found it. Thanks again. ---
**Author:** ![gweimer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a9adbd/32.png) [@gweimer](https://forum.xod.io/u/gweimer)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.xod.io/t/metronome-beats-and-measures/3682/6 "2020-03-26T21:44:07Z")
Sorry about that. I forget about having extra libraries and didn’t realize I was using nodes that aren’t built in. ---
**Author:** ![alwaysuptil1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@alwaysuptil1](https://forum.xod.io/u/alwaysuptil1)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.xod.io/t/metronome-beats-and-measures/3682/7 "2020-03-26T21:46:03Z")
No need to apologize. You REALLY helped me. Thank you for taking the time to do so. 👍 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/xod/original/1X/eb7348baa04192c2ef932d1db54d44f09f8a7888.png) [@system](https://forum.xod.io/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.xod.io/t/metronome-beats-and-measures/3682/8 "2020-03-28T21:46:08Z")
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