Re: Metronome problem

Ah, I see. I'm more familiar with MPC-style arranging.

Is it possible to set up 2-measure metronome countdown?

On 2/12/06, Alexandre Ratchov <alex@caoua.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 01:17:47PM -0800, Will Woodruff wrote:
> > Yes, it works fine with a drum kit. Thank you. :)
> >
> > Is there an easier way to loop or arrange tracks in midish than the
> > trackcopy/trackcut/trackinsert commands? How do you usually put
> > everything together when you're finishing a song?
> >
>
> i use trackcopy/trackcut/trackinsert, but in order to make things
> easier/faster i use loops ("for i in ..." constructs) and procedures
> definitions ("proc mycopy ..."), example:
>
> to copy 16 measures starting from measure 1 at measure 25:
>
> 	for i in [tracklist] {
> 		trackcopy $i 1 16 $i 25 0 {}
> 	}
>
> this will make the copy operation for each track of the song. This
> can be stored in a procedure:
>
> 	proc mycopy start length where {
> 	        for i in [tracklist] {
> 	                trackcopy $i $start $length $i $where 0 {}
> 	        }
> 	}
>
> and then just use:
>
> 	mycopy 1 16 25
>
> [...]
>
> There are such procedures in the midishrc sample, barely documented in
> http://caoua.org/midish/manual.html#midishrc
>
> personally, to arrange my tracks, i never use the trackxxx functions,
> instead i use the g, n, sel, clr, copy, ins, cut, gcopy, gins, gcut
> procedures from the sample file. They take very few arguments and use the
> various song parameters (current position, selection, track, channel,
> quantization step, etc...). I'd suggest you to use them and/or to modify
> them to fit your needs.
>
> You can include the midishrc sample file in your ~/.midishrc, eg. by
> adding this line:
>
> exec "/usr/local/share/examples/midish/midishrc"
>
> (assuming midish is installed in /usr/local/ directory)
>
> --
> Alexandre
>
>