Conversion Cheat Sheet
Message to Audio

Convert a message to a signal without any smoothing

Convert a message to a signal with linear smoothing

Convert a message to a signal with logarithmic smoothing
Audio to Message

Convert audio to a stream of messages

Analyze an audio stream for peaks, average, or RMS
Signal to Event

Signal to Event
Unit Conversions

Samples to Milliseconds

Frequency to MIDI Pitch

Amplitude to Decibel

Note Value to Millisecond
See Time Value Syntax for more details.

Tempo to Millisecond
This same patch will convert milliseconds to tempo (kinda cool huh?)

Linear to Quadratic
Multichannel

Single channel to multichannel

Multichannel to separate channels

Multichannel to stereo mixdown
List to buffer~

Fill using peek~

Fill using jit.buffer~
buffer~ to List

Using peek~ and zl.group

Using jit.buffer~ and jit.spill
Audio to Matrix

Filling up a matrix

Reading from a buffer

Writing into a matrix
Matrix to Audio

Scanning a matrix

Read a video as an audio signal
Matrix to Texture

Convert a matrix to a texture. It really is that simple.
Texture to Matrix

Convert a texture to a matrix
Matrix to Messages

Get cell values from a matrix as a list

Read a specific cell from a matrix

Get a representative number from a matrix

Output the cells of a matrix one by one
Message to Matrix

Fill up a matrix using a list

Set a single cell in a matrix
Matrix Upsampling/Downsampling

Downsample a matrix, no interpolation

Upsample a matrix with interpolation
Matrix Color Conversion

Red-Green-Blue to Hue-Saturation-Lightness

Red-Green-Blue to Luminance

More color space conversions
Thread Priority Conversion

Move a high-priority message to the low priority queue

Move a low-priority message to the high-priority scheduler
Note that this won't make the message get processed "sooner", but if you know what you're doing there may be situations where it's useful.
Dictionaries

Convert a dictionary to a coll

Convert a coll to a dictionary

Add an array to a dictionary

Decimal to Hex

Hex to Decimal

Decimal to Binary

Binary to Decimal
String to Array

String to Array
Array to String

Array to String
buffer~ to Array

buffer~ to Array
Array to buffer~

Array to buffer~ using array.tobuffer
Array to buffer~ (multiple channels)

Each nested array is its own channel