Set position of where song will start?

[prebentious]

Hello!

I have a question for those smart M4L folks out there.

Say I'm recording into the arrangement and things are going well, but then I mess up. So I'd like to try again, while keeping my original performance.
The thing to do would be to move the transport to start AFTER my last performance, so the new performance gets recorded into blank arrangement space, leaving the first performance intact.

I know how to do the math, and I tried moving the current_song_time property of live_set, but that only works when the transport is playing. If I move current_song_time when the transport is stopped it doesn't affect the position that Live starts at.

So I put in a function to move the playhead right after I press play again. That works, but there's a hiccup when Live starts, as it jumps around right after I press play (I had to put in a deferlow, which probably exacerbates the lag).

I notice in the arrange page, that sometimes there are orange and green triangles just below the scrub area. The set_current_song_time moves the orange triangle, but not the green one, and it looks like the green one is the one in charge of where playback starts.

Anyone have any advice on how to set the playback position when transport is stopped?
THanks!
Ben

Here's a demo:

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[broc]

I think moving the playhead right after start is the only way.
You could try to improve the reaction time by using [plugsync~] as trigger.

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