Developing with the Bitwig Controller API - Video Tutorial available

[moss]

Many people asked for it! And here we go, first part is online:

https://youtu.be/l4AuiQ8krQc

[T71]

Killer. Thanks, dude!

[C-quence]

[moss]

Part II is ready!

https://youtu.be/vSgI3_ZeB2Y

[tvdv]

Great videos! Thank you very much for creating these!

One minor issue; around 3:35 in Part II you state that the Controller Scripts and Extensions directories can be found in ~/Bitwig Studio/ on the Mac. This is incorrect; they’re actually in ~/Documents/Bitwig Studio/

[moss]

One minor issue; around 3:35 in Part II you state that the Controller Scripts and Extensions directories can be found in ~/Bitwig Studio/ on the Mac. This is incorrect; they’re actually in ~/Documents/Bitwig Studio/

Yes, you are right! Will mention it in the next part.

[pc999]

Really cool

[moss]

Part III is online! All about MIDI:

https://youtu.be/hseQpTtyvFM

[moss]

On to Part 4: Controlling the Transport

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGBCxqseoWo

[moss]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdngysW8fHA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgwYxU7v-xA

[deadReactor]

Hi moss,

I also enjoy watching your videos, even though your series literally started just a few days too late for sparing me of figuring most of this stuff out the hard way Great stuff.

Just out of interest, any particular reason why you keep using "var" instead of "let" (like everybody seems to)?
Is the bitwig api not consistent with the version of the nashorn library?

w.

[moss]

Hi moss,

I also enjoy watching your videos, even though your series literally started just a few days too late for sparing me of figuring most of this stuff out the hard way Great stuff.

Just out of interest, any particular reason why you keep using "var" instead of "let" (like everybody seems to)?
Is the bitwig api not consistent with the version of the nashorn library?

w.

Good question. I guess I am just old-school

[BufoBufo]

Just out of interest, any particular reason why you keep using "var" instead of "let" (like everybody seems to)?
Is the bitwig api not consistent with the version of the nashorn library?

Nashorn is only a slow implementation of ES5.1, so no block-level variables (EDIT: wrong, let does work), fat arrows or other current goodies. Even worse, Nashorn itself has been flagged for deprecation. I desperately hope Bitwig won't drop JS controller scripts support anytime soon.

[deadReactor]

Nashorn is only a slow implementation of ES5.1, so no block-level variables, fat arrows or other current goodies. Even worse, Nashorn itself has been flagged for deprecation. I desperately hope Bitwig won't drop JS controller scripts support anytime soon.

I figured that const and let came around the same time and const is used all over the place in scripts. I think both were part of es5. Let definitely works in my scripts, didn't test if the implementation is correct though.
Edit: My bad it actually was part of es6.

@deprecation, I also noticed, but it seems like graalvm could be a drop in replacement.

[BufoBufo]

I figured that const and let came around the same time and const is used all over the place in scripts. I think both were part of es5. Let definitely works in my scripts, didn't test if the implementation is correct though.

You're right, const & let do work despite being ES6 features. Dunno if they didn't work from the start, or if I just cut out both in favor of writing clean ES5 that can be eslinted using a regular ES5 profile, instead of using an ES6 profile for linting when the Nashorn runtime is far from ES6-compatible.