when inPause, wait for Play

EvenSteven

this script works as expected for track 1, 2 with one exception. when inPause i'm not finding a good way to make if wait like Record, Play, Stop does.

it's also constraining track 2 the same length as 1, but i'm pretty sure that's a setting somewhere I'm overlooking; i had it going before.

#name RecPlayPause
print "in RecPlayPause"

if inPause //probably add and mode  == Stop
 //wait cycle  //didn't work. for awhile cycle would start but not at top like I hoped. 
 Play //this happens immediately, and :Play didn't work
else if mode == :Reset
  Record
else if mode == :Record
  Play
else if mode == :Play
  Stop

then for the tracks:

#name RecPlayPause
print "in RecPlayPause"

if inPause //probably add and mode  == Stop
 //wait cycle  //didn't work. for awhile cycle would start but not at top like I hoped. 
 Play //this happens immediately, and :Play didn't work
else if mode == :Reset
  Record
else if mode == :Record
  Play
else if mode == :Play
  Stop

#name RecPlayPause
print "in RecPlayPause"

if inPause //probably add and mode  == Stop
 //wait cycle  //didn't work. for awhile cycle would start but not at top like I hoped. 
 Play //this happens immediately, and :Play didn't work
else if mode == :Reset
  Record
else if mode == :Record
  Play
else if mode == :Play
  Stop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1VS0RgWjB4

jeff

I haven't had time to digest all this, but when you are in a state of pause, "wait cycle" won't do anything because the loop is not advancing. You can wait for some number of milliseconds, but the comments say "not at the top" so I'm guessing you want to wait for a location in a different track or from the sync source.

Waiting for the sync source with "wait bar" doesn't work yet. You should be able to switch over to a different track and wait for something in that track with:

  in 3 wait cycle

Assuming 3 is your master track that has the thing "at the top" you want to wait for. Pretty sure after that completes, you'll be back "in" the paused track you started with, but this is new territory.

Clarification: when you do a wait in a paused loop what happens is it schedules a wakeup event for the location of the next cycle (or whatever unit you're waiting for). When this event is hit, then the script resumes. But if the loop is paused, it won't get to that scheduled event until you unpause it and let it reach that location.

jeff

Just throwing this out there, but if you want to silence a loop but keep it running so you can use waits in it, you could use Mute instead of Pause. If the end result of this is that you want the loop to come out of silence playing at the beginning, then Mute has fewer side effects than Pause. In the session, under the Functions category is a parameter named Mute Mode, set that to Start.

What this means is that Mute the first time will silence the track, it still "plays" but you can't hear it. Unlike Pause/inPause you can test for this with "if mode == "Mute"". When you do Mute a second time, it will un-silence the loop, look at MuteMode and if it's Start, restart the loop from the beginning.

In practice I find Pause a lot less useful than Mute when you're in the middle of a performance. If you just want to temporarily shut off a track, but keep other tracks going, it's usually easier to use Mute instead. It's a different way of thinking about what "stop" means and it comes from the EDP. The EDP is really always running, it's just that you can choose not to hear it with Mute. And while a loop is muted you can continue to operate on it, use quantization, etc.