How to create a Snapshot library

[wildthing]

Hi guys, I’m trying to improve my panels and I would like to add a tab with a library made of saved snapshots. My idea is to create a kind of midi bank without using sysex but nothing than midi controls.

The first thing i need to understand is how to get all the modulators values from the panel and pack them into a single file.

I stress out that i don’t want to translate midi CC into sysex but just create a patch file unsing snapshot values.
I’ve tried to figure out how to do this thing but it’s too difficult to me so i realy need some help. Do you have any idea about how can i do that? Any hint would be much appreciated!

• This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by wildthing.

[dnaldoog]

Hi wildthing,

Have a look at this panel:

https://github.com/RomanKubiak/Panels/blob/1aaeb12ad9cd96a16cddb37fd2a2c8ca98f87a01/DEMO/DEMO%20-%20Files.panel

It will show you how to save and reload a set of records as a binary file.

You would collect your uiSlider values into a lua table and then convert that table into a MemoryBlock using method createFromTable({}) and write to a binary file.

One way of doing that might be to record value changes using a callback function set in [Called when any modulator changes it’s [sic] value] into a lua table, which is then converted into a file (see function saveContentAsData() in the DEMO file). You can filter which kind of modulator is to be recorded using modulator:getUiType() in that callback function.

Let me know if this doesn’t make sense.

Regards,

[wildthing]

Thanks a lot Dnaldoog, I’ll take a look!

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