How do I construct a large array of EventValues in the ExtraValues parameter of the AnalogueSequencer?

Question

The ExtraValues parameter expects an array that starts with an EventValue eg,

#(!Index 1 5 9 4)

I want to generate an array with a large number of EventValues, like:

#(!Index  !osc_index__1  !osc_index__2 ...  !osc_index__100)

 

So what I thought I would do is something like this:

#(!Index) , { 1 to: 100 collect: [ :i | !osc_index__ suffix: i ]}

But that gives me an error:

"Error: The value 3 was used to index OrderedCollection (`Index `osc_index__1) ... this index is out of bounds..."

I've tried every arrangement of brackets I can think of and I always get a similar error or a stack trace. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

The ExtraValues parameter is expecting a list of Arrays. If you specify a single expression in the field, it expects that the expression will be in that form.

For your particular case, you could use:

{ Array with: #(!Index) , ( 1 to: 100 collect: [ :i | !osc_index__ suffix: i ]) }

This constructs an Array with a single entry which is another Array, with the first element being !Index and the remaining elements as your described above.

Comments

Fantastic! That works great.

Thanks

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this is a very powerful constructor, thanks for the example

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When I enter this into the ExtraValues parameter and press the "accept" button, Kyma encloses the expression in #(...)

//to get this to work I have to delete #(...) and be careful not to click the "accept" button.

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We tried out the expression from the answer (above) and did not see the added text you mention. Could you please make sure that you used the expression as listed above?