Tidal * and / operators speed up or slow down pattern steps multiplicatively

In Tidal mini-notation, *N repeats a step N times by speeding it up to fill the same slot, and /N slows a step so it plays once across N cycles. Both apply to individual steps or bracketed subsequences. hh*4 gives four hi-hats in one step’s time; sn/2 plays a snare only every other cycle. Together they give compact notation for common rhythmic variation. Tidal’s docs describe * as ‘speeding up’ a step and / as ‘slowing it down’.

Examples

d1 $ sound "bd [sd cp]*2"  -- snare/clap pair played twice
d1 $ sound "bd sn/2"       -- snare every 2 cycles
d1 $ sound "[bd hh]*4"     -- pair repeated 4 times per cycle

Assessment

Write a pattern with a kick on beats 1 and 3 and a hi-hat playing four times within a step. Then slow a snare down so it plays only every three cycles.