Looping a group that's firing a random child.

[Collin Ronsonette]

Hi y'all,

So here's my question. I've got a group that's firing a random child, and then continuing on to the next cue. What I want to do is to have that group cue looping endlessly on itself until the next cue is fired.

I've looked at Mic Pool's telephone ring and tried something like that, however it's not really working the way I need it too.

I'm thinking about creating a script but I wanted to see if there were any other idea.

Thanks a lot!
Collin

[Arshan Gailus]

Hi Collin,

I've attached a QLab workspace with a couple solutions to this.

The first one (cue 1 to start, cue 2 to stop) assumes you want to wait for completion of the current sound in the random group before triggering another one.

The second one (cue 3 to start, cue 4 to stop) assumes you want to trigger a new random child based on a specific time wait (in this case 4 seconds - the sum of the post wait on the random group and the pre wait on the start cue to restart it)

Both will let the current sound in the loop play out when the loop is stopped.

Hopefully one of those does what you are looking for?

-Arshan

[Arshan Gailus]

Just realized an issue with my previous solution - for cues 3 and 4, if the stop cue was taken within the .1 second window of the post wait of the random group, the 'stop' wouldn't work as expected.

I've attached a new version that uses 'disarm' instead of 'stop' to fix the issue.  This also lets you change the timing in one place.

-Arshan

[Collin Ronsonette]

Thank you very much for posting this Arshan!

I'll take a look at it and see if it works for me.

Collin