macros help request

[Kang]

Can anyone figure out how to set the PUNCH state? You can toggle it obviously, but I'd like to have it set to on, whether it's on already or not.

I tried:

Tracktion.toggleTransport ('punch', 1);
Tracktion.toggleTransport ('punch', 0);

To no avail. I'm trying to make this macro better (so it works whether PUNCH selected or not.) It pre-rolls from the IN marker and starts a punch record.

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Tracktion.toggleTransport ('punch');
Tracktion.jumpToMarkIn();
var currentPos = Tracktion.getPosition ('transport');
Tracktion.setPosition ('transport', currentPos - 7.0);
Tracktion.record ();

Also trying to get new named tracks, but with the name based on the current selection. So creating a new track with a track selected would create a track with the same name. Ideally it would have a +1 style identifier, but I'll take what I can get. Even like "create 4 new tracks" all in one go, but with name +1 identifiers would be great, if that's possible. I'm trying to get a quicker comping setup and I prefer not working in loop mode, so this would let me use "pack clips to takes" option more efficiently and have everything named based off the main track.

[AGreen]

Unfortunately, Tracktion.toggleTransport ('punch'); returns a void so there's no way of checking if punch is on or not. If it returned true/false you could use an if statement to toggle the punch state.

The following macro will create 4 tracks with the same name plus number identifier. Edit the first line to change number of tracks:

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var numTracksToCreate = 4;
var trackCount = 0;
var selected = Tracktion.getSelectedEditElements ('track');
trackName = Tracktion.getName (selected[0]);

for (var i = 0; i < numTracksToCreate; ++i)
{
    trackCount += 1;
    Tracktion.insertTrack ('audio');
    selected = Tracktion.getSelectedEditElements ('track');
    Tracktion.setName (selected[0], trackName + ' ' + trackCount);
}

If the track isn't named it will create a numbered track.

[Kang]

Unfortunately, Tracktion.toggleTransport ('punch'); returns a void so there's no way of checking if punch is on or not. If it returned true/false you could use an if statement to toggle the punch state.

The following macro will create 4 tracks with the same name plus number identifier. Edit the first line to change number of tracks:

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var numTracksToCreate = 4;
var trackCount = 0;
var selected = Tracktion.getSelectedEditElements ('track');
trackName = Tracktion.getName (selected[0]);

for (var i = 0; i < numTracksToCreate; ++i)
{
    trackCount += 1;
    Tracktion.insertTrack ('audio');
    selected = Tracktion.getSelectedEditElements ('track');
    Tracktion.setName (selected[0], trackName + ' ' + trackCount);
}

If the track isn't named it will create a numbered track.

Brilliant, thank you so much! This will be my new ALT+T.

I suspected that about the PUNCH one, I'll just get rid of that first line and only use it in conjunction with the punch key.

I was gonna mention in another thread that I use your "hide/show muted tracks" macros all the time (puts my reference listen macro over the top) and I've learned a bunch from the macros you've posted, so thanks again.

How does one tell that PUNCH returns a void (out of curiosity)?

[AGreen]

Brilliant, thank you so much! This will be my new ALT+T.

I suspected that about the PUNCH one, I'll just get rid of that first line and only use it in conjunction with the punch key.

I was gonna mention in another thread that I use your "hide/show muted tracks" macros all the time (puts my reference listen macro over the top) and I've learned a bunch from the macros you've posted, so thanks again.

How does one tell that PUNCH returns a void (out of curiosity)?

No problem, glad some of those macros are useful. If you hover your mouse over a macro command in the editor, it'll pop up information about the commands usage and what it returns. The online API also gives this information.