Beat

Beat’s parent is Measure.

Read beat informations

use PhpTabs\PhpTabs;

 $song = new PhpTabs('my-song.gp5');

 // Get a beat
 $beat = $song->getTrack(0)
                 ->getMeasure(0)
                 ->getBeat(0);

 echo sprintf("
 Beat
 ----

 start: %s
 is chord beat: %s
 is rest beat: %s
 is text beat: %s
 ",

 $beat->getStart(),
 $beat->isChordBeat() ? 'true' : 'false',
 $beat->isRestBeat() ? 'true' : 'false',
 $beat->isTextBeat() ? 'true' : 'false'
 );

It will ouput something like:

Beat
----

start: 960
is chord beat: false
is rest beat: true
is text beat: false

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Write beat informations

$beat->setStart(1920);

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Measure

You may handle its measure.

$measure = $beat->getMeasure();

$beat->setMeasure($measure);

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Chord

You may handle its chord.

$chord = $beat->getChord();

$beat->setChord($chord);

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Text

You may handle its text.

$text = $beat->getText();

$beat->setText($text);

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Stroke

You may handle its stroke.

$stroke = $beat->getStroke();

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Voices

You may handle voices.

// Number of voices
$count = $beat->countVoices();

// Get an array of voices
$voices = $beat->getVoices();

// Get a single voice by its index
// starting from 0 to n-1
$voice = $beat->getVoice(0);

// Set a voice by index (0 or 1)
$beat->setVoice(1, $voice);