Highlight Shared Copies

[vesperrin]

Hi,

I am searching a solution to highlight same shared copies of Items on the arranger. I asked about a macros solution here:

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Someone told me that there is no possibility to do this with macros but that there is a script which do that.

I search with "highlight", "shared copies/copy" keywords on this forum and didn't found anything.

Do you know if a script for this exists?

 

[Lukas]

Hi and welcome to the forum,

yes, I created a script for that but haven't published it yet.

The command I developed was originally for selecting audio events with the same clip (same audio content) but it works for shared copies of instrument parts, too. I hope to be able to include it in one of my Studio One add-ons soon.

Is this what you mean?

Someone told me that there is no possibility to do this with macros

That's correct. Macros can only use Studio One commands that already exist.

 

[vesperrin]

Is this what you mean?

Yes, That will do the job thanks! In which Macros Bundle do you think you will add this feature?

Do you know if I will be able to create a macro with the command "select same clips" + a "random color" (don't know if it exists), command?

 

[Lukas]

Yes, That will do the job thanks! In which Macros Bundle do you think you will add this feature?

Can't say for sure because I'm just preparing the official release of Scoring Tools. Hopefully I will know more in a few weeks

Do you know if I will be able to create a macro with the command "select same clips" + a "random color" (don't know if it exists), command?

Yes a macro with the new command + "Set Color of Selected Events" (that's built into Studio One command) should work. However, there's no option for a random color. But that's actually a good idea for another new feature for my add-on. Could be nice for organizing tasks in large songs with many events / shared copies.

 

[vesperrin]

Can't say for sure because I'm just preparing the official release of Scoring Tools. Hopefully I will know more in a few weeks

Ok thanks!

Yes a macro with the new command + "Set Color of Selected Events" (that's built into Studio One command) should work. However, there's no option for a random color. But that's actually a good idea for another new feature for my add-on. Could be nice for organizing tasks in large songs with many events / shared copies.

Yes I was thinking of this, but it could be complicated and I don't know which language is used and what the API of Studio One provide for scripting, but it could be like this:
1. Create groups of shared items (array) and add it to an an array.
2. Order groups by oldest group (oldest event).
2. Iterate over each group.
3. If (
group items color are the same
and group items color are different than other track's items colors
): don't do anything
else: get random color and apply it to items.

The more simpler way could be to just randomize colors for every shared copies but this will change color for each set of shared copies every time, which could be less convenient for UX I think, but I'm not an UX expert.

 

[Lukas]

Looks like good pseudo code already

Yeah maybe I can add a "Colorize Shared Copies" command (or similar) that does this automatically to visually separate the shared copies. Can't promise it for version 1.0 but I'll add it to my list.