Switching between samples in a Zone

Steve1977 · December 10, 2017, 1:19pm

misohoza:

I’m glad it worked.

There are several ways how to deal with situation like this.

When you wrote you want to automate the layer switching it made me think whether this is the right approach. The preset attached in my previous post works by changing the “LayerMidiMute” parameter. When you turn the knob it mutes everything and unmutes the selected layer. So if you play a note and turn the macro page knob while the note is still held the note will be cut off.

So I tried to change the script slightly to make it work on per note basis and avoid cutting off notes when turning the knob:
layers = this.parent:findLayers()

function getLayerNames()
  layerNames = {}
  for i, layer in ipairs(layers) do
    layerNames[i] = layer.name
  end
end

getLayerNames()

defineParameter("LayerSelect", nil, 1, layerNames)


function onNote(event)
  playNote(event.note, event.velocity, -1, layers[LayerSelect])
end
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If you find you prefer this behaviour try it on a dummy program first.

When I tried to fix the original preset by changing and reloading the script it looked like it doesn’t work. This happened to me several times before and usually it’s enough to reload the program and/or restart Halion to fix this. But this time it doesn’t.

Here’s the same script saved as a midi module preset with a simple macro page:

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Hi Misohoza,

Thanks again for all your help, can’t tell you how much I appreciate it.

It’s almost certainly something I’m doing wrong, but I can’t get your new code to work with my program. I’ve attached a pic of my layer tree, so you can see what I’m up to.

Below I’ve attached a pic of your first code that DOES work with my instrument (ie: it plays sounds and changes the chords when the knob is turned), but you’re absolutely right that I’m getting some issues with sounds not playing when changing chords in automation in cubase, probably because of the mute feature you mentioned.

And finally, below I’ve attached a pic of your latest code in my program. I can’t seem get any sounds out of it with my program (I can see it works great on your 'Layer Selector 2), even when making a dummy program. Again, I’m probably doing something stupid and need to rename something ?

For my final embarrassment, I couldn’t get your Midi Module to load up either? I can’t seem to find in HAlion where you’re meant to load Midi modules and not scripts? Apologies again for my ignorance.

If you could offer any more advice or help I’d be eternally grateful.