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Creating a Maquette

Contents

1. General Features
2. Creating General Maquettes
3. Using Maquettes inside Patches
4. Using Maquettes inside Other Maquettes
5. Saving a Maquette

Like patches, maquettes be used as autonomous programs, or within other patches and maquettes, like blue and red patches. Consequently, OM also offers two types of maquettes :

• general maquettes :

• internal maquettes :

See also:

• Abstraction Boxes

General Features

General and Local Maquetttes

General maquettes can be :

• added in a workspace and used as main programs.
• dropped and used in a patch, like an abstraction.

** Local ** maquettes can be added directly into a patch like an internal abstraction.

Using Maquettes in Other Maquettes

Maquettes can also be used within other maquettes, according to similar principles :

• an existing maquette can be dropped and used into another maquette.
• a maquette can be created directly within another maquette.

Conversions

Last, like blue and red patches again, general maquettes can be ** converted ** into local maquettes, and vice-versa.

Creating General Maquettes

Procedure

General maquettes are equivalent to standard blue patches. Like them, they can be created in the workspace, or one of its folders.

To add a maquette in a workspace :

• select File / New Maquette
• press Ctrl click and choose New Maquette in the contextual menu
• press Cmd + 2

Maquette Files

General maquettes are persistent files that can be manipulated like patches. They can be :

• imported and exported from a workspace
• duplicated and renamed
• used in other maquettes and patches.

Managing Items in the Workspace

• The Workspace Window

Using Maquettes inside Patches

Using a General Maquette in a Patch

Once a maquette is added in a workspace, it can be dropped in a patch, on the same basis as an abstraction : like a “global” abstraction, or blue patch, the maquette keeps it original reference, which means any modification will affect all of its representations.

Adding an Internal Maquette in a Patch

Internal maquettes are the equivalent to internal - red - patches .They can be created inside a patch.

To add a maquette in a patch :

• Cmd click and type “maquette” in the editor
• Ctrl / right click and choose Maquette in the contextual menu.

Converting Maquettes

General maquettes can be converted into internal maquettes, and reciprocally, internal maquettes can be converted into global abstractions.

• To convert a general maquette into an internal maquettes, select it and type a.
• To convert an internal maquette into a general maquette, drop it from the patch into the workspace, or one of its folders.

Patch Conversion Procedures

• Conversions

Using Maquettes inside Other Maquettes

This use of maquettes mostly sets forth a number of specificities dealing with the use of TemporalBoxes[1].

Creating and Using Objects within Maquettes

• Maquette Programming
• TemporalBoxes

Saving a Maquette

To save a maquette :

• press Cmd + s
• choose File / Save
• Ctrl / right click in the maquette and choose Last Saved in the contextual menu.

The Last Saved command allows to reset the maquette to its last saved version.

References :

1. TemporalBox

A TemporalBox refers to an object in a maquette : an instance, a patch, or another maquette.

Contents :

• OpenMusic Documentation
• OM User Manual
  • Introduction
  • System Configuration and Installation
  • Going Through an OM Session
  • The OM Environment
  • Visual Programming I
  • Visual Programming II
  • Basic Tools
  • Score Objects
  • Maquettes
    • Creating a Maquette
    • TemporalBoxes
    • The Maquette Editor
    • Maquette Programming
    • Maquettes in Patches
  • Sheet
  • MIDI
  • Audio
  • SDIF
  • Lisp Programming
  • Reactive mode
  • Errors and Problems
• OpenMusic QuickStart

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