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@sorceror ,
Yes, that has been discussed before as well, and is on the list.

Global speed slider

I like the idea of a global slider/setting that a pattern is free to use. This would have to allow for slower and faster settings. I have also experimented with giving adjusted input to time() and delta. In general this works well to slow time, but breaks sync unless every controller has the same time scale. One way I could solve this is to send the timescale as well, overriding settings on synched controllers. Time() is unique in that it can run backwards! It would be cool to make a time scru…

Goals:

1. A global speed slider like brightness
2. Changing speed without causing animation jumps
3. Not breaking timesync across multiple PB - sync the global speed too.
4. New stateful API, perhaps a timer object, to keep track of internal phase state.
5. Both timer adjustable speed and global speed so you can add more speed sliders in addition to the global one to fine tune some particular aspect.