Complex Rules vs Additional Translators - Bome Forums Archive 2005

sleepytom

2011-04-12 22:46:31

Hi

I'm interested to know what is considered best practice when it comes to building presets; is it better to use variables and rules to construct midi messages for output or do we gain anything by splitting these commands across multiple translators?

at the moment i'm trying things like (qq is an incoming note var and PP selects the preset to load on outgoing action)

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if qq==68 then pp=1
if qq==68 then rr=h1
if qq==84 then pp=2
if qq==84 then rr=h2
if rr==1 then exit rules, execute Outgoing Action
if rr==0 then exit rules, skip Outgoing Action

this obviously just filters for 2 specific notes, but i'm adding upto 64 eventually. it's a lot neater to have it all in code in one place, but sometimes things seem to work better if i use multiple translators filtering just their one specific note.

I'd appreciate others thoughts and experience with this as i'm new to MT.

Attigo

2011-04-26 23:25:31

Hi sleepytom

You are doing the right thing, it is best to keep as many 'translations' within one preset. When rules start getting a bit long, you will probably see a pattern in what you are doing and a lot of the rules can be chopped down to one clever rule. You can write small algorithm that can set all the correct variables or something like that.

Scott