adamcroft
Long story short, I want my Automix 'time remaining' to show the actual time remaining (based on cut in/out points, rather than full track length).
I wrote a script that successfully calculates the cut length of the track that I'll be using, and stored the millisecond value of that in the 'comments' field of each track.
I'm now trying to write a script that will look down my Automix queue, grab the 'comments' field of each track as integers, and add them together - so I can later convert this to minutes and seconds.
The below script works... but it's not elegant, and I'd have to keep repeating it up to around 100 if I want to make sure I'm counting everything in the Automix queue.
I've played with cycling a counting variable and pulling that in as the second parameter for get_automix_song, but VDJ doesn't like it and seems to insist on an actual typed integer as the second parameter.
Am I missing something really obvious?
get_automix_song 'comment' 1 & param_cast 'int' & set_var $runningTotal & get_automix_song 'comment' 2 & param_cast 'int' & set_var $toAdd & param_add `get_var $runningTotal` `get_var $toAdd` & set_var $runningTotal & get_automix_song 'comment' 3 & param_cast 'int' & set_var $toAdd & param_add `get_var $runningTotal` `get_var $toAdd` & set_var $runningTotal & get_automix_song 'comment' 4 & param_cast 'int' & set_var $toAdd & param_add `get_var $runningTotal` `get_var $toAdd` & set_var $runningTotal & get_automix_song 'comment' 5 & param_cast 'int' & set_var $toAdd & param_add `get_var $runningTotal` `get_var $toAdd` & set_var $runningTotal
I wrote a script that successfully calculates the cut length of the track that I'll be using, and stored the millisecond value of that in the 'comments' field of each track.
I'm now trying to write a script that will look down my Automix queue, grab the 'comments' field of each track as integers, and add them together - so I can later convert this to minutes and seconds.
The below script works... but it's not elegant, and I'd have to keep repeating it up to around 100 if I want to make sure I'm counting everything in the Automix queue.
I've played with cycling a counting variable and pulling that in as the second parameter for get_automix_song, but VDJ doesn't like it and seems to insist on an actual typed integer as the second parameter.
Am I missing something really obvious?
get_automix_song 'comment' 1 & param_cast 'int' & set_var $runningTotal & get_automix_song 'comment' 2 & param_cast 'int' & set_var $toAdd & param_add `get_var $runningTotal` `get_var $toAdd` & set_var $runningTotal & get_automix_song 'comment' 3 & param_cast 'int' & set_var $toAdd & param_add `get_var $runningTotal` `get_var $toAdd` & set_var $runningTotal & get_automix_song 'comment' 4 & param_cast 'int' & set_var $toAdd & param_add `get_var $runningTotal` `get_var $toAdd` & set_var $runningTotal & get_automix_song 'comment' 5 & param_cast 'int' & set_var $toAdd & param_add `get_var $runningTotal` `get_var $toAdd` & set_var $runningTotal
Posted Fri 05 Jan 24 @ 4:32 pm
Adion
When automix is active the time remaining already takes mix time and mix points into account
Posted Fri 05 Jan 24 @ 4:49 pm
kradcliffe
Was just about to post exactly the same thing.
Posted Fri 05 Jan 24 @ 4:50 pm
locoDog
There is a way with virtualFX to get for loop() like behaviour and drop vars that will parse to values anywhere, but it's a lot more complicated to initially set up.
Posted Fri 05 Jan 24 @ 5:09 pm
locoDog
@adion, there would be a minor error in cases of track on deck being a different sample rate to sound engine, very minor that corrects itself but it would be noticeable if the time returned needed to be accurate to the second.
Posted Fri 05 Jan 24 @ 5:30 pm
Adion
Indeed, issues with different sample rates will be fixed in next update
Posted Mon 08 Jan 24 @ 7:24 am
adamcroft
When automix is active the time remaining already takes mix time and mix points into account
That would make sense, but unfortunately it's not actually doing that.
That would make sense, but unfortunately it's not actually doing that.
Posted Tue 09 Jan 24 @ 9:39 am
adamcroft
Also, I'm looking for a way to (ideally) do this without having to have Automix active. 95% of the time I don't want to be using Automix.
Posted Tue 09 Jan 24 @ 10:06 am
Adion
But when automix is off neither the mix points or mix length will match your mixing anyway, so simply the total time as already shown would be just as good a guess no?
Posted Tue 09 Jan 24 @ 12:06 pm