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1 <html>
2 <head>
3 <meta name="author" content="Christian Schoenebeck">
4 <title>wait() function</title>
5 <meta name="description" content="Pauses execution for a certain amount of time.">
6 </head>
7 <body>
8 <h1>wait()</h1>
9 <p>
10 Suspends / pauses execution of the current event handler instance for the requested
11 amount of microseconds. The paused event handler instance can also be resumed before
12 the requested amount times elapsed by calling <code lang="nksp">stop_wait()</code> from another
13 event handler instance.
14 </p>
15 <p>
16 The <code>??duration-us??</code> argument must neither
17 be negative nor zero, otherwise script execution will be aborted, because this
18 is a common indication of bugs in scripts which could potentially lead to
19 real-time instability or worse scenarios otherwise.
20 </p>
21 <note>
22 If the event handler instance's built-in variable <code>$NKSP_IGNORE_WAIT</code>
23 reflects <code>1</code> then all calls to <code>wait()</code> will be ignored.
24 This might for example be the case when <code>stop_wait()</code> with
25 <code>1</code> being passed to the 2nd argument of that function.
26 </note>
27
28 <h3>Function Prototype</h3>
29 <p/>
30 <code lang="nksp">
31 wait(??duration-us??)
32 </code>
33
34 <h3>Arguments</h3>
35 <table>
36 <tr>
37 <th>Argument Name</th> <th>Data Type</th> <th>Description</th>
38 </tr>
39 <tr>
40 <td><code>??duration-us??</code></td>
41 <td>Integer Number</td>
42 <td>Positive (non zero) amount of microseconds to pause execution.<br>
43 [required]</td>
44 </tr>
45 </table>
46
47 <h3>Return Value</h3>
48 <p>None.</p>
49
50 <h3>Examples</h3>
51 <p>
52 The following example resembles a simple delay effect. For each note
53 being triggered by the musician, the script launches additional notes,
54 each one of such additional successive notes with a more and more reduced
55 volume.
56 </p>
57 <code>
58 on init
59 { The amount of notes to play }
60 declare const $delayNotes := 4
61 { Tempo with which the new notes will follow the orignal note }
62 declare const $bpm := 90
63 { Convert BPM to microseconds (duration between the notes) }
64 declare const $delayMicroSeconds := 60 * 1000000 / $bpm
65 { Just a working variable for being used with the while loop below }
66 declare polyphonic $i
67 { For each successive note we trigger, we will reduce the velocity a bit}
68 declare polyphonic $velocity
69 end on
70
71 on note
72 { First initialize the variable $i with 4 each time we enter this event
73 handler, because each time we executed this handler, the variable will be 0 }
74 $i := $delayNotes
75
76 { Loop which will be executed 4 times in a row }
77 while ($i)
78 { Calculate the velocity for the next note being triggered }
79 $velocity := 127 * $i / ($delayNotes + 1)
80 { Suspend this script for a short moment ... }
81 wait($delayMicroSeconds)
82 { ... and after that short break, trigger a new note. }
83 play_note($EVENT_NOTE, $velocity)
84 { Decrement loop counter $i by one }
85 $i := $i - 1
86 end while
87 end on
88 </code>
89
90 <note>
91 Using the <code>wait()</code> function can lead to concurrency issues with
92 regular variables, which are global variables by default. You might need
93 to use <a href="nksp.html#polyphonic_variables">polyphonic variables</a>
94 in such cases.
95 </note>
96
97 <note>
98 You need at least LinuxSampler 2.0.0.svn2 or higher for the
99 <code>wait()</code> function to fully work as expected. Versions
100 of LinuxSampler older than that will not resume the script at the
101 requested amount of time, instead those older version will resume
102 the script always at the beginning of the next audio fragment
103 cycle. So effectively a <code>wait()</code> call with a LinuxSampler
104 version older than 2.0.0.svn2 will pause your script for a few
105 miliseconds, no matter which function argument you provided.
106 </note>
107
108 <h3>See also</h3>
109 <p><code>stop_wait()</code><p>
110
111 </body>
112 </html>

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