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[samaaron]

@jrm

In section Passing values into the Future of Sonic Pi - Tutorial there is an example where a value is get from store using sync. This is a shortcut for cue + get .

Just to be clear, sync is not a shortcut for cue + get. This thread might help shed some more light:

Help with understanding cues/syncs

Hi, new to Sonic Pi and very keen to use it. I’ve been through the tutorials and got very excited about using cues and syncs for controlling many arps and voices…but…clearly something I don’t understand about the model. Without a solid mechanism for doing this I can’t build what I need. If anyone could point me in the right direction I’d be very grateful. In the simplified code (at the end of this post) I have one live loop that cycles between two chords and plays the current one, and another…

In particular this section:

@samaaron

• get - this simply retrieves the latest value at the current time (or no value if none is found). This does not block the current thread in any way and is assumed to take 0 time.
• set - this puts a value at the current time into the Time State. It does not block the current thread and is assumed to take 0 time.
• sync this retrieves the next value from the current time and if no value is already there and waiting it will block the current thread. The amount of time this takes depends on when the next value is available. You can therefore treat sync like a special kind of sleep where you don’t specify the time explicitly - rather it’s just the time of the next matching event