Scene increment / loop
I recently built this 'relative' scene launcher to simplify scene automation from my MIDI controller - I just need to launch any scene labelled 'mstr' to be able to launch scenes relative to it from my other, hard-mapped buttons.
I now want to be able to set it up so that my drummer can step through these scenes with one drum-pad - increment the current scene. I'm thinking I need add a 'loop length' to the master scene name, and then use another regexp to extract the number from the end of the scene, so he can loop around a few scenes.
Total noob at this, I wonder if anyone can help me get started? I attach the current scene launching patch - I've added 'post-it' style notes to it that should hopefully make things clearer than my rambling :)
Err ok I'm getting somewhere with this but now stumped by some basic regexp stuff... any help much appreciated!
I just want the regexp to pull the last number from a scene label and set that as the 'scene loop length'.
(NB. thread mirrored here - http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=176480)
Darn, I just realised I have a more tricky regexp to write... basically it needs to do this:
IF scene has 'mstr' in the label, THEN Get scene 'loop length' from last numbers in scene label.
Is something like this possible?
Patch so far:
it's like the guy on ableton forum wrote you need to make your problem more specific. how can i tell how the scene name will look like. what's between mstr and the number.
why don't you put example messages (names) in there.
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