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Long time Keyboard Maestro user - new to Soundflow and looking for guidance before digging in

By Judson Crane @Judson_Crane
    2022-02-27 22:22:03.185Z2022-02-28 00:42:46.818Z

    Hello!
    Soundflow looks to be a very deep and powerful system. I've been using KBM for a long time and am looking for something with a little more access to elements. So Soundflow seems to be a solid solution! These are a few scripts I'd like to build and I'm wondering if someone could point me to best guidance for accomplishing these:

    1. Macro to automatically save a folder of Kontakt presets in Pro Tools : i have this working in KBM, but the one thing it can't do is see the kontakt "Progress" window so it knows when the next preset is loaded before it continues with the script. I get around this in KBM by adding variable pauses depending on the comlextity of the instruments (ie 5 seconds for larger instruments, 1 sec for smaller)... and that works ok, but it seems like something like SF should be able to test for the window that comes up in Kontakt labled "Progress...". The rest of the script is based on clicking in relation to specific onscreen graphics. Is that also possible in SF? so finding an image on screen and then clicking 200 pixels to the left of the graphic for instance. That is how I get to the instrument title within Kontakt to copy for the preset name. My other variable besides the pause that I set, is the number of repeats based on how many instruments are in the folder. That seems like a pretty simple thing i would imagine yes?

    2. A script to open the Pro Tools MIDI event list and insert a specific event at the current playback position, and selected track. I haven't tried this in KBM yet, but shouldn't be too hard in Soundflow as the midi event list in PT can be navigated via arrow keys in a new inserted event. The menu items might be a little trickier.

    3. I'm also playing around with the auto inserting of specific defined plug-ins in next avail slot and have downloaded the Teezio loader package - but it seems there are some new bugs that need to be worked out first. Maybe there are some other ways to accomplish this?

    Thanks for any insight and I am looking forward to diving in.

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      Judson Crane @Judson_Crane
        2022-02-28 00:42:17.426Z

        #3 turned out to be mostly user error - although this package installs without any presets, but I was able to get my own presets working correctly with it. :)