Help with script - "wait for note" send to IAC

Scripting with Gig Performer
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Hi,
I am intending to use GP to workaround a limitation of Logic, which is that I want to record midi into Logic such that I arm the track to record, and Logic waits for some note input before starting recording. This is implemented in quite a few hardware sequencers and surprisingly few DAWs.

So I need to create a script in GP that listens for any note data globally I think? And then when a note arrives, I need to send to the IAC port I create for Logic a record start message, which I need to research what that actually is, and immediately after that, send the note that triggered the event to the same IAC port, then exit.

I need to high this up so that I can hit a button to arm it and maybe it another button to cancel it.

Are there any templates which might speed up the creation of such a script?

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Please first find out if it is possible and how, then we could imagine a simple GPScript which would do the job…

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Probably because in a DAW it’s trivial to cut out the beginning empty area.

In fact these days, many DAWs do the opposite. They continuously record in the background so nothing gets lost.

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Ok, well “just edit your midi by hand” is not really a solution thanks for your help.

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For my understanding, you want to record MIDI with the 1st MIDI message and not silence at the beginning?

Found this forum:

So the idea is:
Midi Notes are sent to GP.
With the 1st MIDI note received from GP a MIDI message is sent to Logic via IAC and recording is started and the MIDI notes are also sent to Logic.

Is that what you want to achieve?

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What’s with the sarcasm? You expressed surprise that most DAWs don’t support the feature you want and I was just suggesting the reason for why that is the case.

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yes I want to wait for any midi notes incoming on a certain midi port, not clock or control messages, and when I receive one of these midi events, I want to send a midi message (probably a sysex or CC string) to an IAC port, which I guess doesn’t look any different than any other port from GP, and then forward the original note to the same port, then exit the function or whatever implement the callback.

I guess binding this to a button in GP UI is something I can dig up in the docs.

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I was trying to be polite while indicating that a critique of why I want to do this is not helping me accomplish the task. I posted here instead of just figuring it out, so that future googlers and GP users will get visibility into the issue and when I post the finished code to this thread they will be happy.

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I didn’t see any critique here, only an explanation.

But, well, I tried to help and you didn’t answer my question. A GP Scriptlet could be quite easy to do and could help you to accomplish the task you are trying to achieve. But I have no idea of the MIDI message you have to send to Logic to start recording.

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My reply was to the other poster.

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Oh dear!

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And mine was to you.

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