Entering a series of directives for a specific track can get quite tedious. To make the creation of library files a bit easier, you can create a block. For example, the following:
Drum Define X 0 2 100; 50 2 90
Drum Define Y 0 2 100 Drum Sequence X Y |
Can be replaced with:
Drum Begin
Define X 0 2 100; 50 2 90 Define Y 0 2 100 End Drum Sequence X Y |
Or, even more simply, with:
Drum Begin Define
X 0 2 100; 50 2 90 Y 0 2 100 End |
If you examine some of the library files you will see that this shortcut is used a lot.
The BEGIN command requires any number of arguments. Valid examples include:
Begin Drum
Begin Chord2 Begin Walk Define |
Once a BEGIN block has been entered, all subsequent lines have the words from the BEGIN command prepended to each line of data. There is not much magic here--BEGIN/END is really just some syntactic sugar.
To finish off a BEGIN block, use a single END on a line by itself.
Defining musical data, repeats, or other BEGINs inside a block (other than COMMENT blocks) will not work.
Nesting is permitted. Eg:
Scale Begin
Begin Define stuff End Sequence stuff End |
A BEGIN must be competed with a END before the end of a file, otherwise an error will be generated. The USE and INCLUDE commands are not permitted inside a block.
bob 2008-09-28