Why the music extension don't allow tempos below 20 and won't go above 500? Is it intended? If it is, why?

ten_6044 wrote:

Why the music extension don't allow tempos below 20 and won't go above 500? Is it intended? If it is, why?

Performance reasons.

While comments in the code don't explain why they chose this, they do explain that it's intentional.

My guess is that over 500 BPM you start to no longer be able to distinguish between individual beats, and it just kind of becomes noise (with some applications in playing things like WAV files), and under 20 you might as well just use a

wait () seconds

block.

Because scratch waits near a few milliseconds inbetween blocks, so then they won't actually be 500 BPM