Hey everyone,
So I've been trying to write docs for undocumented functions on the wiki and while fastGap (https://tidalcycles.org/index.php/fastGap) works just fine if you give it a very simple time parameter I'm finding it's behavior counterintuitive if you put in a more complex pattern.
So I think I can understand why something like
fastGap "2 4" $ s "bd cp*2 sn*2"
is equivalent to
fastGap 2 $ s "bd cp*2 sn*2"
but then if you do something like
fastGap "1.5 4" $ s "bd cp*
which produces
t> (0>²₉)|s: "bd"
(²₉>⅓)|s: "cp"
(⅓>⁴₉)|s: "cp"
(⁴₉>½)-⁵₉|s: "sn"
drops a snare drum completely vs.
fastGap 1.5 $ s "bd cp*2 sn*2"
which creates
t> (0>²₉)|s: "bd"
(²₉>⅓)|s: "cp"
(⅓>⁴₉)|s: "cp"
(⁴₉>⁵₉)|s: "sn"
(⁵₉>⅔)|s: "sn"
like I'm not surprised that they're different, I'm surprised that we completely dropped an event from the resulting pattern! It seems counterintuitive that any kind of fast would ever drop events.
Is this behavior right? And if it is, what's the intuition for it?