On 09/15/2013 09:51 PM, Jim Cochrane wrote: > - Is it possible for rosegarden to have its record function triggered > by a MIDI event that it receives instead of hitting the GUI record > button? And if it is possible, of course, how is it done?
Not currently. > - If it is not possible, how hard would it be to add this feature to > the code? (Since it does start playing when it receives a START > message, it seems to me it should not be hard to modify it to allow > recording instead of playing when it receives START. What you'd want is the ability to arm the record button separately from the play button, like an old tape recorder. Not sure why it doesn't do that already. In principle, doing what you want should be something like punch in/punch out recording. In practice, that still isn't reliable after 13 years, and it's a dubious feature. This code is what Julie Swango would call brittle. I hate messing with it. It's like playing that old Milton Bradley game where you use the tweezers to take out the little plastic bones, and if you touch the sides, you get shocked. (It's not supposed to work like that? Mine sure did! I got many a jolt from that stupid thing.) The better idea would seem to be making it possible to arm the record button ahead of play. Then you send your START and presto. Somehow I just think that's going to turn out to be massively complicated, fiddly, and prone to malfunction. Call me optimistic. That being the case, I'd be in favor of figuring out some other way. Is there some likely MIDI message, an obscure controller, absolutely anything we could poll for and react to without having to fiddle with any of this other delicate stuff? If so, I'd go that route. > However, this > is coming from a naive view - I'm a programmer, but I know very > little about the source code.) > - If it's not possible, is there some workaround? (For example, what > if I hit 'record' to start rosegarden recording, then send it a > song-position pointer message for position 0 to force rosegarden to > reset to position 0 and continue recording from there?) That sounds like a fine workaround to me. Have you tried it? It might actually work! -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack includes Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/20/13. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
