Code Box - what's not in the manual!

brokebust · 29 Sept 2009

Also, this link in the manual is broken: http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tech/midispec.htm

Can anyone provide an alternative? How do you make a MIDI message - what are the definitions of the status values 1-127 etc?

Not having any documentation is really screwing me with this software 🙁

oddson · 29 Sept 2009

http://home.roadrunner.com/~jgglatt/tech/midispec.htm

This guy has a great reference site but this is the fourth time it's moved in the past four years... I was almost ready to offer to host it myself just so I don't have to keep track of where it is.

As for code - there's not much more to it that what's in the documentation. Hopefully someone with more coding knowldege can add some details.

MichaelBenjamin · 29 Sept 2009

so theres == and != and i think thats it. some more in asm, squareroot, poor precision (seems to work for most audio) 1/x, sse2 rndint and others.

theun · 29 Sept 2009

The manual also doesn't mention the " | " , the bitwise OR mask. So it's 3 operands the code component chapter in the manual misses: "==", "!=" and "|". That's all! It would have been nice to have a secret toolbox , though! 😉

Regarding documentation: did you check the S|M WIKI ? There are a few excellent articles on the code component e.g. [old link] and [old link]

Another starting point is this forum here: there are some interesting topics about using code, such as this one: Code tips x a beginner

cheers!

Theun

Shalako · 15 Nov 2009

This is standard bit operation logic used in C++ and other coding languages,therwise known as Logic Gates also used in electrionic circuts it the basics of digital/binanary system.

A logic gate is a true/false statement in binary otherwise represented by 0 (false) or 1 (true)

example would be: C is true if a and b are equal

a = 10 & b = 5 c = false (signal does not pass through circuit)

a= 10 & b = 10 c = true (siganal does pass through circuit)

'|' binary bitwise inclusive OR as in A or B (one or the other) == Equal to as in A is = to B

(When I say maths I mean addition, subtraction, multipication, division and so on)

sin1(a) maths cos1(a) maths tan1(a) maths log10(a) maths max(a,b) Max of two numbers (which is bigger A or B) min(a,b) Min off two numbers (which is smaller A or B) rndint(a) ??not sure but could be Round a float to an interger

* maths + maths - maths / maths

% remainder

> Greter than >= greater than or equal to (example: >= 5 means all numbers up to 5 and including 5 itself. so 1 to 5 = true and 6+ equals false) < less than <= Less than or equal to

& adress of or and (not sure which in this case I think normal && is And

Now Im not 100% sure that these mean the same thing in SM as they do normally but I'll bet it's pretty close.

Don't ask me how I know this stuff I just do. Helps to have once had a hobby building hardware synths.

Shalako · 15 Nov 2009

I found a wiki page that might help

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operators_in_C_and_C%2B%2B