Well, when you play a Pbind ( or a Routine ) to a TempoClock, you are already talking in beats. TempoClock’s Default tempo is 1, which is 1bps = 60bpm, where 1 beat = 1 second. So you can have:
6 - Dotted whole note
4 - Whole note
8/3 - Whole note triplet
3 - Dotted half note
2 - Half note
4/3 - Half note triplet
1.5 - Dotted quarter note
1 - Quarter note
2/3 - Quarter note triplet
0.75 - Dotted eighth note
0.5 - Eighth note
1/3 - Eighth note triplet
0.375 - Dotted sixteenth note
0.25 - Sixteenth note
1/6 - Sixteenth note triplet
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Then, to sync different patterns to the same clock, you can check out Quant
I think this is the preferred way to sync different processes: syncing patterns on the language side. Synchronization is a hot topic, you’ll find a lot of discussions about it here on the forum, for example see this: