Printing multiple cycles of a pattern to the console

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If I print a pattern to the console, I get a helpful readout of the first cycle’s output.

e.g.,

s "bd hh"

outputs

 t>(0>½)|s: "bd"
(½>1)|s: "hh"

But in cases where the pattern will differ from one cycle to the next, e.g.,

 s "<bd cp> hh"

it will still only show the first cycle. Is there someway to show the next n cycles?

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shows 4 cycles:

queryArc (s "<bd sn>/3") (Arc 0 4)

see also https://github.com/tidalcycles/Tidal/issues/608

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Great! Thanks so much.

I don’t know if this is the appropriate place for a follow-up question, but having just updated Tidal (since posting the original question), I now see output like this:

t>[((1,1),(7,1))](0>½)|s: "future"
[((8,1),(12,1))](½>1)|s: "bass"

but I haven’t been able to figure out what the list with the tuples signifies. Is there an explanation of this somewhere?

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they are source spans, in the form of (from,to), where each component is (column,line), see:

Prelude Sound.Tidal.Context> s "bass"
[((1,1),(5,1))](0>1)|s: "bass"
Prelude Sound.Tidal.Context> s " bass"
[((2,1),(6,1))](0>1)|s: "bass"
Prelude Sound.Tidal.Context> s " \n bass"
[((2,2),(6,2))](0>1)|s: "bass"

see https://github.com/tidalcycles/Tidal/issues/245#issuecomment-560125215

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