Mike, I'm gonna pass this off to a friend of mine who's a guitarist and a programmer and see what he says...
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Dawson, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > > I can't think of the programming pattern for this, but, this is what I'm > trying to do for a little side project I'm building. I'll explain what > I'm doing and then I ask you for the name of the programming pattern > that most-closely solves this problem. I'm not specifically asking you > to code it for me, however. (Unless you want to give some clues.) ;^) > > I have a guitar signal processor that lets me store presets for each > song. Each song will have, at least, one preset, but a song may also > have two or three presets. A song would never have more than five > presets. These presets will always be in the same order as our set > lists. > > I have a foot switch, that I use to select the presets for the songs. > The foot switch will let me choose one of five presets in 20 different > banks. For example Bank 1 consists of Presets 1-5. Bank 2 consists of > Presets 6-10. etc... > > I have a database table of our songs. Each record also stores how many > presets are used for any particular song. For example, "Born To Be > Wild" uses only one preset. "Feel Like Makin' Love" uses three presets. > > I have another table that associates our songs with a show's set lists. > > Currently, I have another table that maps each song with the preset > number on my processor. When I have to re-order the songs, in the set > list, I have to also re-order them, in my processor, as well as modify > the table that maps the songs to the presets. > > This is where I want to go: > > Rather than having a mapping table, I just want to make sure that my > processor's presets match the set list's song order. Then, as long as > the database knows how many presets are used for each song, it would > automatically tell me where to store the songs presets in my processor. > I have a utility that allows me to quickly move presets, in my > processor, using a computer. > > Here is the catch: I don't want a multi-preset song to overlap a bank. > > For example: "Feel Like Makin' Love" uses three of the five presets in > one bank. > One day, we may follow that song with another song that uses three > presets. Therefore, I need it to start with the next bank, not in > position four, five and then the first of the next bank. That means the > bank that holds "Feel Like Makin' Love" uses the first three presets and > the last two are unused. > > That said, what would be the closest programming pattern that would > solve this problem? I don't think it would be too difficult to loop and > keep counters, but knowing when a bank is "full" because of the next > preset would be the tricky part. > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > Michael Dawson > Manager of Web Applications > Office of Technology Services > University of Evansville > > [ Tag line for rent ] > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:331895 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
