Old 04-06-2020, 10:53 AM   #1
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Hi I am trying to write a script that will insert a sysex message where the play head is. All of my code works to get the user message and parse it to what the system uses, but I can't get it to insert.

I am using MIDI_InsertTextSysexEvt in Lua

Lua: boolean reaper.MIDI_InsertTextSysexEvt(MediaItem_Take take, boolean selected, boolean muted, number ppqpos, integer type, string bytestr)

My code for this part is

take = reaper.MIDIEditor_GetTake(reaper.MIDIEditor_GetAct ive())
time = reaper.time_precise()
ppqpos = reaper.MIDI_GetPPQPosFromProjTime(take,time)

reaper.MIDI_InsertTextSysexEvt(take,true,false,ppq pos,1,sysexMessage)

It doesn't throw any errors. But nothing is inserted (the sysexMessage is higher up in the code and works fine, the variable contains the message correctly)

Any ideas?
I'm not a great coder, but I'm not completely without understanding.
Thanks in advance
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Old 04-06-2020, 01:34 PM   #2
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time_precise() gives you the time of day. You want the project timeline time, as given by GetCursorPosition() or similar.
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Old 04-06-2020, 01:36 PM   #3
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well, now I feel dumb. Thank you.
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Old 04-06-2020, 01:40 PM   #4
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As my grandpa used to say, the only dumb question is... that one you just asked.

(it wasn't a dumb question)
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Old 04-06-2020, 01:52 PM   #5
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Ha ha ha. I like that. Thanks for your help
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Old 04-06-2020, 01:57 PM   #6
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All of that works now, but nothing is placed in my midi track. Am I using the correct function to write a sysex message and put it in the take?
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Old 04-06-2020, 01:59 PM   #7
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Yes, that should work. How are you constructing the message?
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Old 04-06-2020, 02:15 PM   #8
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I take user input for what cue number they want which processes it into a string that reads
7F 01 02 01 01 31 35 2E 35 00 31

the 31, 35, 2E, 35 are the ones that change based on user input

This is the whole message without the F0 and F7 bounding boxes
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I think you want bytestr to be "\x7F\x01\x02..."
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That worked perfect.
Thank you so much. I really appreciate it.
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Old 04-06-2020, 02:36 PM   #11
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I think you want bytestr to be "\x7F\x01\x02..."
Exactly? with the slash and x?
what about spaces?
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It's a byte string, not a string of printable characters. "\x7F\x01\x02" is a string of 3 bytes, starting with 7F. "7F 01 02" is a string of 8 bytes, starting with 0x37 which is the ascii code for the character '7'.
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Old 04-06-2020, 02:44 PM   #13
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Ok, I think I understand.
I'll get on it
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Old 04-06-2020, 05:23 PM   #14
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Ok, I suck. Do you have time to tell new how to concatenate a byte string.
There first part of my message is correct,
There user input part gets converted to the correct hex, but when i try to put then all together I get the correct information followed by random numbers.
Sorry. Thanks for your time
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https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#3.4.6

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The problem I'm getting is I have a static message of "\x7F\x01\x02..." and then the formatted message which is 31352E35 (15.5) and I can't get it into a "\x31\x35\x2E..." any idea?
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That's kind of advanced. You'll need to do something like a str:match to get the values out of the text string, then push them onto the bytestring.
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Code:
s_in = '31352E35'
s_out = ''
for char_pair in s_in:gmatch('..') do s_out = s_out..'\\x'..char_pair end
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Old 04-07-2020, 06:09 AM   #19
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Almost, but you can't construct a byte string by piecing together '\x' and values. You need to explicitly push the value on the the bytestring.

Code:
s_out = s_out..string.char(tonumber(char_pair,16))
char_pair is something like "33" or "1F"
tonumber(char_pair,16) interprets the two text characters as a hex value
string.char converts the number to a byte character

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Old 04-07-2020, 09:49 AM   #20
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Thank you so much for all your help. That worked and will make my programming of messages so much easier.
It comes out in the perfect format.
I still do not completely understand it, but I don't need to.
You guys are great!
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