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hello !

I'm new on using tidal and I really don't understand some things.
So If I try to sync tidal with Ableton live through Ableton link i see that the softwares are linked but for example if I set a tempo of 100 bpm in Ableton , tidal is setting for default is tempo in 4 subdivision for cycle so if for example i write d1 s "bd" , the kick come every 4 beat .
if i write "bd bd bd" tidal is dividing my cycle in three but the subdivision is alway in 4 so he plays the pattern like a quarter triplet according with ableton bpm.
So the question is

if I wanna compose a beat in 3/4 with bpm 100 how can I set tidal for to have 3 beat for cycle synced with ableton ? Is it possible (maybe not) ?

thanks a lot

Mario

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There’s not currently a way to specify a different subdivision, but you should be able to squeeze every cycle into a three bar phrase with:

d1 $ fast (4 / 3) $ --your pattern goes here

You can probably get away with putting this on all to affect every pattern, but I’m not certain offhand exactly what syntax you’d need

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thank you very much for your replay matthew ! So if I well understood the default subdivision of tidal cycle is in 4 beat for cycle ?

have a nice weekend

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Yes that's right, and it turns out that it is possible to configure this, just not yet on-the-fly while tidal is running. There are some instructions here:
Multi-User Tidal | Tidal Cycles

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thanks Alex