Re: another mobius question

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

That should be perfectly possible to script. Sorry, but I don't have
the time to construct it now. I never learned scripting, just mocked
up whatever I needed by trial and error. One scripting concept could
be to start out Multiply, then use a bunch of "wait subcycle" lines
undil throwing in Record when the script arrives to the next last
subcycle. But that would always create a loop of a new lenght; one
subcycle shorter than a cycle. I guess you want your magic button to
work also on longer loops of several cycle's lenghts? Then a more
mathematical approach would come in handy... maybe using Instant
Divide and Instant Multiply in the script?

I do a lot of this stuff by physically stepping the Instant Divide and
Instant Multiply buttons so I guess it would work in a script too. I
typically combine the coefficients 3 and 4 to truncate a loop into a
slightly longer or shorter loop. I can't see the math now though for
how to make that end up as exactly one 8th Per Cycle shorter.

Per



On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Simeon Harris
<simeonharris40@googlemail.com> wrote:
> i've never used an EDP though, so this is a bit of a mystery to me, i'm
> afraid
>
> i'd like to put it into a script though, as i have a button on my control
> surface available and i'd like to hit that button to truncate the loop by
> one 8ths per cycle value (whatever it happens to be at the time)
>
> sim
>
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Simeon Harris
>> <simeonharris40@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > i'm thinking this is a bit flaky though and a more elegant solution 
>(to
>> > me)
>> > would be to actually chop a chunk off the end of loop 2 to make it
>> > shorter.
>> > the result will sound the same (although loop 2 will be moving 
>backwards
>> > relative to loop 1, instead of forwards, but adding a chunk to the end
>> > of
>> > loop 2 will create a small chunk of silence)
>> >
>> > is there a way to to this with a script? can you delete a piece off 
>the
>> > end
>> > of a loop that's one 8ths per cycle long?
>>
>> No need for scripting there. Truncating a loop on-the-fly is the same
>> basic action combination as with the EDP:   Multiply finished by
>> Record. With this combo you can cut down a loop into a very short
>> slice if you like. Fun to tap dance on this in combination with Undo
>> and Redo.
>>
>> Per
>>
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