Re: [Qutecsound-users] Live Events

[Jim A. <mid...@sb...>]

I'm seeing a few things with Live Events that don't appear to be working 
properly. At least, they aren't working as I would expect, and I don't 
see how one would use them musically.

In the LE Controller box, the Loop checkbox causes the Live Event to 
loop (or try to) even when Csound is not running. This results in an 
endless stream of messages to the Console saying "Csound is not running! 
Event ignored." It seems to me that the Stop button in the main toolbar 
should stop the LE Controller from outputting data (but it should NOT 
uncheck the Loop checkboxes).

The Tempo and Loop Length fields in the Live Event window for my event 
work properly ... but the values I enter there are not propagated to the 
line in the LE Controller window. That line still says Loop Length is 8 
and the Tempo is 60.

The parser for the Live Event window appears not to understand how to 
evaluate arithmetic expressions that are surrounded by square brackets. 
Since I routinely use this notation in my just intonation scores (it's 
very convenient to enter a ratio in a p-field as [9/7] rather than 
having to enter 1.2857 and then try to remember what ratio 1.2857 refers 
to), this is kind of a bummer for me.

I'm not sure what the Rotate command is supposed to do, but it doesn't 
seem to be doing anything. I have a Live Event with two score lines in 
it, and when I select both and then right-click to get the pop-up menu 
... well, the first thing is, those two lines are no longer selected. 
Maybe that's the problem. But in any event, Rotating by either 1 or 2 
does nothing.

...and now only the second note in the loop is playing, and it plays 
only once, after I _uncheck_ the Loop checkbox. The Play button in LE 
Controller still plays both score lines, and the Loop Range is still set 
to 1-2, so they should both play, but they don't. Quite likely the 
Rotate command did something to cause this condition, but I don't know 
what. In any event, the musical output no longer corresponds to the data 
I'm seeing in the floating windows.

The other commands in the pop-up menu appear to operate only on single 
cells, not on columns. They really should operate on columns. There's 
not much point in using a dialog box to add 1 to the p2 value -- I can 
more easily do that myself, by typing! Ditto for Randomize and Multiply. 
Possibly this is a problem with columns of data being de-selected on a 
right-click.

There are my notes so far. I think I'm going to have to revert to 0.5 
until the copy-paste problem is fixed, because I need to be able to copy 
and paste text. Please let me know when there's a new binary that fixes 
this.

--JA