I'd like to have a K2 script extension

Howdy,

from within a K2 script I'd like to address other(!) instruments
than the one loaded with the K2 script, e.g.
play_note(<note>,<velocity>,<offset>,<duration>,<midi-channel>)
where <midi-channel> would be the midi channel to which this
event would be send. If <midi-channel> isn't used the default
behaviour would be like it is now, so backward compatibility
wouldn't be an issue.

I couldn't find anything like this in the manual.

Thanks for your time to read so far

Tom

 

Hi Tom

I would like such an extension too. An excellent suggestion!
Markus, please answer this.

I feel NI has done a pretty good job with the scripting but severly limited its usefulness by not allowing scripts to send notes to other channels and by restricting the number of UI control rows/columns to only 6x6. The first limitation means that you need one big script to handle everything (moving everything into one big instrument) and the second means that you cannot make the script very big since you cannot present that many settings anyway :-(

Something that's also missing is functions for event queue introspection, eg. a function that returns an array with all active event ID's that corresponds to a certain note. At least some way to guarentee that notes that no longer are used never stay in the event queue.

Best,
Nils