Hello, yes the scene would be stretched to 8 seconds long, which is equivalent to 16 beats in your set tempo. So there is some amount of synchronisation because you have the scene loop exactly once every 16 beats. Within this loop however, there will be very little synchronisation, unless you are in an odd time signature such as 7/16. In this case however, I would suggest that setting 16 Beat Divisions is not the best decision.
There are a couple of different ways that you can better sync your scenes by either adjusting the number of Beat Divisions, or the duration of each step.
1) If each step in your scene has an equal total duration (Hold + Fade time), then you can simply just set the Beat Divisions to 7, 14, 21, etc. Since the total duration is divided by the number of Beat Divisions, you will have a new step on each beat, or every other beat, every 3rd beat...
2) If each step in your scene has a different total duration (Hold + Fade time), then you may want to adjust these settings to fit the scene better into a 4/4 time signature. There are many things you could do for this, for example:
----- If you wanted to have the first 4 steps play on each beat, then the remaining 3 steps form a triplet- you could set the first 4 steps to 3sec, the last 3 steps to 4sec, then a beat division of 8.
----- If you wanted to have the steps run quickly til the 3rd beat, then have it pause, then run quickly again- you could set Steps 1-4 to 1sec, then have step 5 be 2x longer at 2sec, then Steps 6-7 set at 1sec, then a beat division of 4.
Both options here would create a good synchronisation with a standard 4/4 rhythm. Another way of thinking about this is that each step is essentially a musical note, or a percussive hit, and the Beat Divisions is the overall length of your scenes loop- so you need to think mathematically in order to fit irregular numbers into a rigid 4/4 time signature. If each of your steps overall duration are set up in such a way that they are mathematically relevant to one another, you will be able to sync the scene with ease.
I have attached an video below showing some of what I have described for your reference.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y6c3Y_ ... sp=sharing
[Scene 1 = synchronised because it changes every beat. Total cycle is 7 beats long, so every 28 beats / 6 bars, the scene will loop at the same point as the tempo scene.]
[Scene 2 = synchronised because it completes one loop every 16 beats / every 4 bars. Each step is not synchronised within the cycle however because they are random durations.]
[Scene 3 = synchronised because it changes every beat for the first 4 beats, then the last 3 steps are played in a triplet. Total cycle is 8 beats / 2 bars.]
[Scene 4 = synchronised because it changes twice every beat for the first 2 beats, then holds on the 3rd beat, then changes twice again on the 4th beat. Total cycle is 4 beats / 1 bar.]
Hope this all makes sense and is helpful!
Kind regards,
Will
