CAL language

Yeah, I usedthe cakewalk cal language for a while, until I decided to get
into designing my own program. I made a nice little tonality diamond that
inserted notes into the sequencer at the time that the cursor was on. As
I remember (as I do not have the program with me right now, but might be
able to send it later), there is no ability to create universal variables,
only instance variables. This means that you must use the only three
universal variables available to you- now, thru and from. The now should
not be changed, as it is the position that the cursor is at- you should
access this for the time of your event. I used either from or thru to set
the duration of the note. I did it thus: I made buttons that represented
quarter, eigth, etc. notes, and in these I think the only operation was
thru = 120; for a quarter note, thru = 60; for an eighth, and so on.
Then, thru would be used by each of my diamond buttons as the length
value. It's really a simple evaluation; as I don't remember the code, i
can't give an example, but remember to multiply cents value by 41.6 or so
in order to get the correct pitch bend amount. Good luck, but remember
that cal is not designed for programs that large, and they are therefore
slow and awkward.

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