DFD/SAMPLER/TIMEMACHINE Drop Down Menu Script?

Still too new to this language to figure it out myself, and tried scouring the web for examples related but nada.

I'm trying to pass off the dropdown menu of the DFD/Sampler/etc to the user in my UI (in which case, does the group retain the setting or will it affect all groups?), how would I got about doing this? If this isn't possible can you switch from one to another via a switch/button vs a full dropdown? I currently have groups that rely on certain settings and would rather just give full control to the user vs individual settings?

 

Can't be done easily, as there are no engine parameters to change the sampler mode. You would need to have two copies of groups, one set to DFD, the other to your Time Machine mode of choice, and then purge them depending on the state of the dropdown menu. For sampler mode, you'd need to use dont_use_machine_mode() command along with play_note().

 

I see, thanks brother. As a work around I simply have a knob pop up on the groups that have time machine enabled, and greyed out when not.. (in order to change sample speed).

PS: You and a few others are legend for my learning curve - NI really should have scooped you up by now.

 

They have

 

So about dont_use_machine_mode()... is it really not using the machine mode at all? Because the first parameter is the event id, which would imply that the event has already been triggered, and it's causing me an issue. Here's the relavent section of my NCB:

Code:

ignore_event($EVENT_ID)
$new_id := play_note($EVENT_NOTE, $EVENT_VELOCITY, $pos, $duration)
if ($sample_mode = 0)
    dont_use_machine_mode($new_id)
end if

Here's the problem -- I have the machine mode set to time machine pro under the hood. Time machine pro, at least on my computer, caps voices off at 8, or 4 if HQ is enabled. When my $sample_mode variable is 0, it correctly bypasses TM pro and uses the sampler mode, but exhibits the same voice capping as TM pro. If I actually go in and manually change the mode to sampler in the dropdown, then the voice cap will be removed. So it actually is using the machine mode, at least to have some impact. Perhaps I'm not using dont_use_machine_mode() correctly?

 

You're using it correctly, but you might have stumbled upon a bug.

 

Dang . I'll just use TM 2 instead.

 

You could increase the voice limit for TM pro in Instrument Options > Voice Handling. It's not a global Kontakt setting, you can set it differently for different nkis.

 

Sure but that would make the patch blow up the CPU when he's NOT bypassing the machine mode...

 

Yeah, what ED said. I also noticed that bypassed-TM pro uses a little more CPU than sampler (calling dont_use_machine_mode() with both), even though you're getting the same result, so I'd just rather settle for TM 2.