Differentiating between long and short presses of a button?

Ok, this is making my head hurt

I'm trying to simplify one of my ensembles, which currently uses two buttons (mapped to footswitches). I would like some way of saying that a short-click equates to one of the buttons, whilst a long-click equates to the other (it's a looper ensemble, so one would be 'record' the other 'overdub')

Can anyone think of a way to implement this? Core or standard modules, I don't mind (it will probably need a single parameter to decide whether a press is 'long' or 'short').

Any hints, gratefully received

 

That is a tricky thing to get right from a usability point of view. Single/Double click may be better?

In implementation terms, you should be looking at counters, maybe stepfilter/dupFilters.
When the button is pressed, start a counter, as soon as the button is not being pressed, look at the counter value and use that with a separator or router to send a trigger event to either record or dub, then reset the counter.

 

if you have note on/off values coming from the footpedal you can use a timer module to see how long a note was held for.

 

Thanks for the replies; I had wondered about multiple-clicks but I wonder about my ability to perform such activities with my foot ;-)

I'll have a further experiment, and see what occurs…