Output level script

DaveAbbott

Hi all,,,, I'm sure I'm being dumb, but how do I change the volume/output level of a track in a script

Best Regards, Dave Abbott

SchrodingersCat

DaveAbbott I think you just assign a value between 0 and 127 to "output", i.e.
output = 100

jeff

SchrodingersCat yes

And if you want to change the output level in a specific track do

    in 2 output = 100

DaveAbbott

Thanks Jeff,,, I knew it was stupid,,,, missing the = ……

Best Regards, Dave

jeff

I expect this will be common for anyone that used the old MOS language where you would do "set output 100".

While it isn't necessary I may add a set statement that works the old way to make the transition easier. For those curious about how MSL is evaluated this:

    output 100

Is actually two expressions, the first one returns the value of the output parameter and the second one just returns the number 100. But without an = operator in between the results go nowhere. If these were inside a function argument block

   foo(output 100)

It would be passing two arguments to the function, the first one the value of output and the second one 100.

But if it's just those two alone on a line the evaluation results are thrown away.

alexs1

jeff

This may address a question I was going to ask about setting quantize on/off. In some old .mos scripts I had certain lines like "set Quantize off" or "set Quantize loop" before functions. I noticed they don't seem to have any result when written this way in the newer builds. Would it be better to write it as Quantize = loop, etc.?

jeff

alexs1 Yes, to change quantize modes you would write this

  quantize = :loop

   quantize = "loop"

I talked about why you need to quote "loop" or use the :loop keyword symbol in another post about scripting, but basically if you just type loop without quotes, it thinks that is a variable reference and there isn't usually a variable named loop.

The same applies to any parameter whose value is a word rather than a number, so "quantize = :off" "trackSyncUnit=:cycle" etc.

dave

Hi peeps. This reply is related to the original post (IMHO!) so I thought I'd add it here instead of starting a new post...

How do I set the output level of a track to be "whatever it currently is" minus (or plus), say 5? I've tried a few options in the arguments section of the keybindings to no avail (although a specific value works fine), and couldn't get the "current value" in a script in order to manipulate it...

Use case: assign the - (number pad minus) to decrement the selected track's output level by 5, assign the + (number pad plus key) to increment the selected track's output level by 5. Kinda like a mini-mixer of sorts.

Any ideas?

Many thanks!

dave

I sorted it 🙂

set output = ($output-5)

While I was at it I assigned a feedback decrement to ctrl and the minus key 👍️