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Tópico: Dynamic Volume Scripting
Hi,

I'm using a 2 deck controller with a 4 deck skin, I've remapped my pitch bend key to invert decks based on whether it is the left or right side already. I now want it so that my volume will by default change the level on my "active" deck, e.g whichever is selected on that side. And then if I hold shift, it will now change the level on the "inactive" deck, e.g not selected on that side.

I've come very close but the problem is handling the case where deck 3 or 4 are the "selected" decks, this is what I had to cover my initial bases;

device_side 'left' ?
var 'shift_left' ? deck 3 level : level :
device_side 'right' ?
var 'shift_right' ? deck 4 level : level

Thank you
 
Mensajes Tue 11 Mar 25 @ 3:22 pm
query like this
deck 1 leftdeck ? ... : ...
 
Are you suggesting something like this?

deck 1 leftdeck ? var 'shift_left' ? deck 3 level : level :
deck 3 leftdeck ? var 'shift_left' ? deck 1 level : deck 3 level

Focusing only on the left side for now this still hasn't worked, when Deck 3 is selected, both default volume and shift_volume are changing Deck 1. Where have I gone wrong?
 
probably your variable being tied to a deck

device_side 'left' ? 
deck 1 leftdeck ? 
var 'shift_left' ? deck 3 level : level :
deck 1 var 'shift_left' ? deck 1 level : deck 3 level :
device_side 'right' ? 
deck 2 rightdeck ? 
var 'shift_right' ? deck 4 level : level : 
deck 2 var 'shift_right' ? deck 2 level : deck 4 level
 
Thank you for the response but this works the same as the one in my original post;

It works as intended when Deck 1 or 2 are the selected ones, but when Deck 3 or Deck 4 are selected the default volume function works correctly (changes Deck 3 and 4 volume), but shift_volume also affects the Decks 3 and 4
 
omit the deck specifier on the variable query then,

if you're only getting one reply to a query then investigate the query.
 
I removed it to this and I'm getting identical results to the original script you posted;

device_side 'left' ? deck 1 leftdeck ?
var 'shift_left' ? deck 3 level : level :
var 'shift_left' ? deck 1 level : deck 3 level :

device_side 'right' ? deck 2 rightdeck ?
var 'shift_right' ? deck 4 level : level :
var 'shift_right' ? deck 2 level : deck 4 level

I think its really close to a solution but it's almost as though it's unable to access the final shift_volume case that we're implementing.
 
go back to the script earlier but use deck 3 & 4 as the specifier for the variable query.
 
If you mean like this;

device_side 'left' ?
deck 1 leftdeck ?
var 'shift_left' ? deck 3 level : level :
deck 1 var 'shift_left' ? deck 1 level : deck 3 level :
device_side 'right' ?
deck 2 rightdeck ?
var 'shift_right' ? deck 4 level : level :
deck 2 var 'shift_right' ? deck 2 level : deck 4 level

When Deck 3 or 4 are selected, both default volume and shift_volume affect Deck 3 and 4. The other case of Deck 1 or 2 being selected works correctly though.
 
because you're using deck 1 & 2 as the specifier on the variable queries, I said use deck 3 & 4.
 
My bad, this now has the right side (Deck 2 and 4) working perfectly, left side still doesn't though (both default volume and shift_volume are doing Deck 1), any ideas?

device_side 'left' ?
deck 1 leftdeck ?
var 'shift_left' ? deck 3 level : level :
deck 3 var 'shift_left' ? deck 1 level : deck 3 level :
device_side 'right' ?
deck 2 rightdeck ?
var 'shift_right' ? deck 4 level : level :
deck 4 var 'shift_right' ? deck 2 level : deck 4 level
 
Use var_list, investigate what's going on with your variable.
It would be a lot easier if you made your variable global.
 
I don't know how to do that, is there documentation? I thought VDJ couldn't hold Global Variables for some reason.

This is the code I am using to invert the decks too by the way, in case it helps;

device_side 'left' ? invert_deck 'left' : invert_deck 'right'

The solution you've given at the moment is great, I'm just struggling to graps how the right case works but left doesn't.
 
Nevermind, I just restarted my software and now it works perfectly, thank you so much for your help!