How to pitchbend with the pitch wheel in the MIDI Helper Tool?

Gig Performer on Mac OS X
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From my own experience, generators never stops exactly where you want them to stop. If you want to use a generator make sure it stops after the value you want to reach, and clip the pitchbend value to the final value you want to reach when it exceeds it.

I usually prefer using the On TimerTick(ms : double) callback together with the TimeSinceStartup() function which give you an amount of ms since the start up.

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How would you clip the pitchbend value to the final value you want to reach when it exceeds it, and how would you use the On TimerTick(ms : double) callback together with the TimeSinceStartup() ?

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There’s another callback that triggers when the ramp finishes and you could respond to that to send out the final pitch end value you want.

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How do you do that?

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Modify the currently empty callback GeneratorEndCycle in that scriptlet

On GeneratorEndCycle(time : integer) from r
End

so that it looks like this

On GeneratorEndCycle(time : integer) from r
var
    newPitchMessage : PitchBendMessage = MakePitchBendMessage(StopPitch)
    SendNow(newPitchMessage);

End

Have you considered learning a bit of GP Script programming?

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I hope to have the time to learn it. Thank you SO much in the meantime.

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Sorry about this, I thought it is obvious for you if you already have some programming skills.

But using On GeneratorEndCycle is also a very good idea. I forgot about it.

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It works GREAT ! :tiger:

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OK - so your problem is solved completely now?

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