MIDI Track Sync

gustebeast

I'm trying to set up a MIDI track which follows track 1 through two workflows.
Workflow 1:

Load midi track (paused)
Record track 1
Midi track starts playing in sync when track 1 is done recording

Workflow 2:

Record track 1
Load midi track
Midi track starts playing in sync when track 1 reaches the loop start

I have workflow 1 done via the "Follow" settings in session config, but I'm having trouble getting workflow 2 functioning. My intuition was to create a new binding and send an extra midi message after the one bound to loading the midi track. The second message/binding would call "Start" with the extra parameter "quantize leader loop". Doing that I can see a start event gets queued on the paused midi track but because it's not playing it never reaches that event and remains paused/stopped indefinitely.

What's the right way to accomplish this?

gustebeast

Figured out how to do it with a script, open to suggestions though if there's a better way to do this

#continuous

if triggerValue == 0 {
  in 8 Reset
} else {
  in 8 LoadMidi(triggerValue + ".mid")

  var running = false
  in 1 {
    if mode != :Reset {
      running = true
    }
  }

  if running {
    in 1 wait loop
    in 8 Start
  }
}