status of multiple switches....

[woodslanding]

I'd like to have a little led that tells me if any ONE of a set of switches is ON. Problem is, the switches are scattered all over the workspace, so I'd like to do it with a bus.

Not sure what happens when multiple bus sends all called IS_IN_USE are received by one IS_IN_USE bus recieve.

Anyone have an explanation of how this would work with events?

I'll try some experiments in any case.

[nay-seven]

don't think you can use several bus with the same name ( only one will be send...) but something like this ( if i understand well...? )

[woodslanding]

you can send to several destinations-- I'm doing it all the time:

get from bus 1 ---->destination 1
......
get from bus 1 ---->destination 2

but maybe you can't receive from several destinations.... but I would have sworn senso said it was possible somewhere in these forums. And since usine supports that logic with cabling, simply mixing the inputs at the cable destination, (as above) it would seem like busses should act the same way....

I'll do some more checking. if they don't, I guess I'll post a feature request!


What I want is for the user (me) to be able to assign a midi controller to a parameter in a vst, and have an indication whether or not it is already assigned elsewhere..... so what I'd want is what you show above, but with SENDtoLED cabled after each PASS module (the two signal chains would be in different patches) and then a single recieve for the LED. I guess I could have multiple receives at the led, but that seems so un-usine like!!

cheers, and thanks!!!
-e

[bsork]

Hi, I did a quick test workspace with two identical patches with a switch connect to the same bus, and another patch with a get from bus connected to switch. It behaved like I thought it would; the to sends were added, and if both switches were on, the output from the get bus was 2.

You could check for values >= 1 from the send bus if you want some logic to happen, but if the only thing you need is a switch to light up you don't need that as the switch will turn on as long the input is 1 or greater anyway.

[woodslanding]

I did the test myself, and couldn't get it to work. I had send and receive in one patch, and receive in another, and the second receive never got a signal.....

I'll try your test, although I don't know if I can seperate all the sends and receives into different patches....