Threads inside of densities

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Okay, here’s a tricky one. I have some routines that do lfos, envelopes, etc., for samples or synths. If a sound is played inside a density block, and I call a function that spawns a new thread (to apply an lfo, e.g.), will the times in the spawned thread also have the density applied to them?
Thanks!

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I think they will also have it applied, as threads inherit the caller’s BPM.

I ran this as a little trial:

puts "outside", current_bpm
sleep 1

density 2 do
  puts "inside", current_bpm
  in_thread do
    puts "thread", current_bpm
  end
  sleep 1
end

And it printed this, which I think confirms it:

{run: 161, time: 0.0}
 └─ "outside" 60.0
 
{run: 161, time: 1.0277}
 └─ "inside" 120.0
 
{run: 161, time: 1.0277}
 └─ "thread" 120.0
 
{run: 161, time: 1.5277}
 └─ "thread" 120.0
 
{run: 161, time: 1.5277}
 └─ "inside" 120.0
3

Phew! Thanks! That solved what potentially could have been a gnarly problem.