how can I get a fluid playback with this patch
you can observe time instead of banging metro.

then manipulate time only when pitch bend input changes.

Great, thanks for your quick reply!
Could you send me the patch? I tried to build it, but something doesn't work.
live.object: Cannot set negative Songtimes
your problem is probably the way you want to manipulate song position.
I did not care about that.
But maybe you could insert limit to negative numbers.

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.
that worked out. But as soon as I have pitch bend input the song position jumps to the beginning.
Is it possible to have this mechanism from the current song position?
insert float at your outputs to check all.
maybe you have no time report or something
alright, thank you!