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(Message started by: charlesrthompson on Mar 7^th, 2009, 10:23pm)

Title: Note length methods
Post by charlesrthompson on Mar 7^th, 2009, 10:23pm

I may very well have overlooked this in the forums... if so I apologize in advance.

I'm trying to determine a best method for using OutputMidiMsg to trigger a note for a certain duration (for argument sake let's say 1 second instead of getting into bpm and note lengths) then generate a next note for 1 sec, etc.

So the smaller question is: How can I do something like this:

CFGA with each note being 1 second

And the larger question is: Is it possible to do this as a duo?

C D C A G A C A Each note is 1 second
C - F - G - A - each note is 2 seconds

In some languages I might do this through a function call with some type of timing loop but not sure if there are better ways in WScript.

Title: Re: Note length methods
Post by msalmon on Nov 23^rd, 2009, 10:44am

I would try the following

<loop or sink function>
OutputMidiMsg (note on..)
WSH.Shell(1000)
OutputMidiMsg (note off..)
</loop>
I read somewhere that sysex uses buffers, but I don't think the other midi data is buffered so i think the above should work

Title: Re: Note length methods
Post by monkeyboi on Mar 13^th, 2010, 6:25am

WScript.Sleep() is the function you're looking for. I'm pretty sure it will work because I use the sleep() function in VMM to set note lengths.

http://devguru.org/technologies/wsh/17382.asp