New Follow Action: Play till the End (after looping)

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sznattila
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New Follow Action: Play till the End (after looping)

Post by sznattila » Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:54 pm

Dear Devs,

Requesting new follow action or new clip behaviour in Session View:
When clip finished playing the looped part it should continue playing the parts that are in the clip, after the loop, all the way till the End Marker is set.
This would make sense when there are parts in the clip after the loop bracket and the End Marker of the Clip is set outside of that loop bracket.

Example: Let's have a 6 measure long clip I Session View.
Clip Start Marker is set at the beginning of the 1st measure: 1.0.0.
Loop Position is set at the beginning of the 3rd measure: 3.0.0.
Loop Length is set for 2 measures: 2.0.0
Clip End Marker is set at the end of the 6th measure.
Follow Action or Behaviour is set to Play till the End.
Follow Action Multiplier is set to 2X.

Result:
1. Clip starts playing from the beginning.
2. Plays the loop twice.
3. After the last loop, it continues playing until the End Marker.

The first 2 steps are already working, we need the last step implemented.

Also it would be nice if this follow action or behaviour could be combined with other follow actions like: First, Last, Next, Previous, Play Any, Jump to, Other, Play Again.

Thank you.

jimbo9999
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Re: New Follow Action: Play till the End (after looping)

Post by jimbo9999 » Mon Sep 30, 2024 5:20 am

+1

But also just remove the need to set the follow action multplier at all. Let the loop play until the clip loop is turned off, go to end and trigger next follow action. Follow action loop integration isn't quite there at the moment.

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Re: New Follow Action: Play till the End (after looping)

Post by ark » Wed Feb 19, 2025 8:51 pm

sznattila wrote:
Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:54 pm
Requesting new follow action or new clip behaviour in Session View:
When clip finished playing the looped part it should continue playing the parts that are in the clip, after the loop, all the way till the End Marker is set.
This would make sense when there are parts in the clip after the loop bracket and the End Marker of the Clip is set outside of that loop bracket.
Yes, please. I've been wanting this for years. In fact, I have trouble understanding why the end marker isn't always taken seriously, even in looped clips. If you don't want the clip to end where the end marker is, why did you put the end marker there?

I would also like to be able to have the start marker be after the end marker, so that, for example, a clip can start on the last beat of a bar (a pickup beat) and end at the end of the first beat of the bar (say, with a kick on 1).

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