Editing pattern / motion sequence data
Beefbaron0
First off, thank you so much for this editor! It is such a time saver
for organizing everything on my ESX!
Second, I am a noob when it comes to the ESX itself. Just so you
know, heh.
So, here is what I am wondering: Once I export an .esx to the card,
and then load it up onto the editor, I'm seeing the various tabs and
their data. Sample list in the samples tab, patterns in the pattern
tab, etc..
If I go to the Pattern Editor>Motion Sequence tab, the sequence data
is shown along with the data values for each step. Is there a way to
edit these values within the Editor, and then import them back to the
ESX?
How would I go about this, if it can be done?
I'm using the current Windows 32bit version of the Editor, on a
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit OS.
skratchdot.com
data) in the program - you can only view the data. I've been meaning
to add that functionality, but haven't had any time to work on it.
Sometime this winter I'm going to start working on the program again,
and I'll try to add some of these missing features.
This year has been pretty busy for me work-wise, so I haven't had much
spare time to devote to side projects.
Thanks for checking out the program though. Let me know if you have
any other questions.
-Jeff
Beefbaron0
something obvious. Thanks for the great sample/pattern/song organizer
at least!
If you manage to find some time to add those other features, I will
send you delicious cakes and pies...or maybe just some paypal love.
Acid O. Philous
bursting into this thread with what follows :)
If you get around to working on it again I'd really appreciate being
able to edit Song Events as well. As far as I know there's no way to
do that on the ESX itself, so from my point of view this would add a
huge amount of functionality and usefulness.
If there's a temporary file with the data that is read from the .esx-
file I'd be happy to muddle around in it myself, but I guess it's not
that simple :)
Cheers again for this neat programm!
skratchdot.com
I know you can manually edit motion parameters (step-by-step) on the
esx, and I *thought* you could do that with songs as well (but I just
checked- and apparently you can't). It looks like you can only see
the number of song events (by entering song mode, and hitting SHIFT-
MOTION_SEQ).
Of course you can delete, overwrite, and edit events by using the
record button, and moving knobs, but you're right- there's no way to
edit step-by-step (like with the motion sequences).
Anyways, I think the programming API is setup to allow song event
editing, but the hard part for me is always the GUI (and making
something useful- or easy). I think there are still alot of problems
with the UI in the current state of the program.
The next things I wanted to work on were pattern/part editing (as well
as motion sequencing). If those go well, I'll move on to song / song
event editing.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the best way to allow editing
for certain things. IMO to make song event editing useful, you'd have
to have a "piano roll" type editor- and there are still some edge
cases that would need to be taken care of.
If you are familiar at all with Java (or any type of programming), I
can give you some pointers on where to start looking in the code (if
you just wanted to play around with making changes)...
-Jeff
On Dec 7, 1:57 pm, "Acid O. Philous" <acidophil...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
Acid O. Philous
I only dipped my toes into programming, did some 500 lines single-file
programs in C/C++ for uni and did some Excel-macro editing. If you
think that's enough to get me started pointers would be appreciated :)
I'll probably have some free time in the days leading up to Christmas,
so I could try to wade a bit into the depths of multifile projects or
whatever I need to understand :)
I don't know if I can be of any help, but if I manage to kind of
muddle my way through the codebase and come up with something that
works for me I'll of course send it back to you. But as I said I'm not
really experienced and unfortunately tend to procrastinate if I hit a
brick wall, so better don't get your hopes up just yet :)
As far as the GUI is concerned, I was a bit confused the first time I
used it, but got used to it very quickly. On the whole it's fine in my
opinion. And as far as song event editing is concerned a simple means
to modify numbers would be fine for me, but that's me :) As I said I'd
even be happy with a textfile I can edit and reimport or something,
I'd prefer the quick and quirky version over the polished one some
time further off.
Cheers and an enjoyable season with not too much work-pressure!
