blog  An alternative to the 'play' macro: 'iplay' and 'with-instrument'.

Mar 2011

The other day I was thinking: when I use the play macro in Impromptu (video tutorial), in my head it's already obvious what's the virtual instrument I want to play. So why do I have to specify that all the time? Wouldn't it be more natural just being able to say, for example, get this instrument and now play this and that note with it...

blog  Impromptu: If-mod macro.

Oct 2009

Hey there - this morning I checked out a nice screencast by Ben Swift and was struck by the if-mod construct he's using. It's a really useful shortcut that saves you from writing a few (possibly distracting) parenthesis, so I tried to recreate it myself.