Pro Tools - Finished Bounce Tone Generator
I'm looking to create a script that runs in the background while I use Pro Tools. I print stems manually as my workflow doesn't lend itself to the Schepps stem printing system. When I print the stems, I either read a book, scroll on my phone, or watch something on TV. Occasionally, I'll look up and the stem will have finished bouncing for who knows how long. I'd like a script that would play a 2 pop or some kind of tone each time the bounce is completed, alerting me to when the bounce is finished. This would allow me to move quickly through the manual stem printing process.
- Ddanielkassulke @danielkassulke
I do something similar, using:
sf.system.exec({ commandLine: `say "Bounces complete"` });Bear in mind that it's important that you incorporate a way to check that a file has actually been created for the above snippet to be as useful as you want it to be.
- DDrew Drucker @Drew_Drucker
How would I implement this into my MacOS / Pro Tools?
- DIn reply toDrew_Drucker⬆:danielkassulke @danielkassulke
That snippet will have your default system voice read the 'say' part to you. I have a bunch of simple bouncing scripts, with this at the very end to alert me to it being finished. The issue you'll encounter with a script running perpetually in the background is it may be in conflict with other scripts you have running, or try to run. I suspect you could possibly use the Bounce Progress dialog as a window trigger, and that script could then wait for the dialog to disappear before you would hear 'Bounces complete', but I have so far failed to get that to work.