I’m going to try the Media Player features out ASAP.
Is it possible to bind events, such as State changes, to the Timeline markers? For example, at Marker ‘Chorus 1’ I’d like to switch to State ‘Piano/strings’, then at ‘Verse 2’ go back to State ‘Organ’?
That seems a little odd, TBH. I’ll have Play, Stop, and Pause all in the Background Rack as universal transport controls, always available from my MMC buttons, but I’ll have to bind Rewind and Ffwd to a specific Media Player within the Song - yet not all my Songs will have a Media Player in them.
Currently they’re only on the media player binding targets. I did consider adding them to the master transport but decided to wait for feedback. Sounds like they should be there too. I’ll try to get that done soon.
In the meantime you can bind to the first media player from the background rack, by choosing “Media Player by Index/Name” as the binding target:
btw: if you want to edit an existing song template, you can open the template for editing by going File → New, select the template you want to edit, check the checkbox “Open Template for Editing”. When you do this, instead of creating a new file from the template, it just opens the template file. Make your changes and save it and the template will be updated. This is available for Song and Set List Templates - not rack templates.
I haven’t been able to reproduce this. @adderoo could you please send me a crash report from one of those earlier builds so I can see what’s going on.
That video showing Timeline Marker bindings is the exact opposite of what I am wanting to do. I don’t want State changes to move to a Marker - I want hitting a Marker to change State. So when the Timeline reaches the chorus it switches my State for me.
As I said, I’m going to try these features out, but hopefully there’s a way of doing this - I need to look properly.
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I just gave it a quick try… No, I don’t see any way to trigger a State change by reaching a Marker. For me that would be the most obvious use of the Markers.
Still, a very useful feature, and one that will help me when I’m setting up my Timeline-triggered State changes.
That can’t be done at the moment, except by creating transport triggers with the same position values. Good idea though, but let me think about what the best way to integrate this might be.
Thanks for the response, Brad. That saves me time trying to figure why I’m not being able to conjure it up!
I suppose Timeline Markers and time positions are essentially the same(-ish) thing, but the Markers give the positions a friendly name. Hence why I was hoping I could get rid of all the time numbers here and just say ‘Marker #1’, ‘Chorus’, or something.
Nice features Brad!
Regarding te marker States, it would be handy if we could do like in reaper, there you can add a command number from the action menu. To add any function or even macro it.
While we’re at it, a macro fuction might be handy also
Thank you very much for implementing these nice features… they instantly created new requirements (growing exponentially).
FR: “Toggle loop between markers.”
Use case: Practicing a hard part of a song (e.g. a solo)
Behaviour: When activeated, and the playhead position reaches a marker, just jump back to the previous marker.