Scripting can (I think anyway, never tried it) create new note events. I suppose someone could make a new action to create a new midi note. Of course, you can also just use copy and put a note on the clipboard before firing a macro and use Paste to insert one in the macro whenever you want.

Or select any note before firing the macro and have Copy as the first step.

Many thanks Lawrence! I was looking into your posts and the code. A few decades ago I use to be a cakewalk user. There they had something called CAL - cakewalk application language. Probably was a distorted version of Basic. But it was useful at times. Let me ask you, is there some kind of book or training out there targeted at scripting? I kind of get the feeling like I am trying gain knowledge of some closely guarded secret.

I had a guide posted here but recently took it down. It was up for a good while. I figured...

1. Anyone interested would have seen it an copied most of it already.
2. I'm far from being a good technical writer and probably could have done it much better.
3. It generated a lot PM questions (probably due to #2) and it started to feel rude not answering them all.

Once you get a handle on the underlying interfaces and the basic package file layout, scripting is pretty easy in Studio One for anyone already familiar with JS. There's code on GitHub from that link in my sig if you want to look some of it over.

And yes, it is kinda of a secret of sorts I suppose as there's no official guide or documentation. It's not a thing they advertise. That cat was let out of its bag by the Studio One X guy.

Does this interest you?

SNB1: Yes, I like what you have. That's pretty close to what I have been doing all along. What would be pretty cool to reduce some editing time is to be able to totally macro the placing of a note. - it may not seem like a time saving step but if you multiply this by a 100 or so keyswitch events that I might put into just 1 horn track, now you are talking about many minutes of time savings. Here is what I envision: place a 3 or 4 primarily used keyswitches - things like sustained notes, short notes, swells, Stabs etc and place those on macro toolbars. Once I hit this macro button on my toolbar, it inserts a note (like C0) into the track wherever my cursor happens to be. So I could just toss my play cursor where I want this keyswitch, hit the appropriate toolbar button and... bingo! its there! - Now what would be even Cooler yet is to have some javascript analyze the midi note length, and put those key switches in FOR ME! Now your talking about reducing something that might be 2 hours getting reduced to just 15 seconds.

I do a lot of horn arrangement work with VI's. Sometimes its a small horn combo band environment, other times its outright BIG BAND JAZZ. In the big band environment, that's where midi editing can really consume lots of time. -using scripts to bring some sort of intelligence to the case can really reduce editing time. I am a person that knows many computer languages. I would so totally spend the time on a script program to do this. I have confidence I can do the script part. but this program has to have some sort of I/O with Studio1. MIDI has to be analyzed and based on note lengths, a keyswitch is recommended by the script at a specific time in the track. Now how does this get imported back into the track -or put into a new track? How would the MIDI track events get exported to my script so these note lengths can be measured? That's all the I/O that I haven't a clue on.. Without some sort of documentation about scripting, it might be easier to solve world hunger.. So... I don't see scripting working unless its made more available to the general consumer. Macros are the closest solution here.

Nice man. Sounds like some really advance stuff you're trying to accomplish. Cutting time down and making life easier is the name of the game.

That also interests me (though that's not technically a trill). How did you do that? I don't know the macro stuff yet. Where's a good tutorial?

Yea you're right, I don't know why I said Trill, I meant to say run. I'll make a private tutorial and post it on here. Or I'll might able to explain it here. I'll see when I get home from work tonight.