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So I talked about this in a different topic [url=http://famitracker.com/forum/posts.php?id=4539&pid=46602#46602]here, but I was wondering if a finite loop feature would be plausible. Like say you wanted to loop a song a few times before beginning a new section of the song or ending the song altogether after a few loops. Granted, you could just copy the frames to give the same effect, but that's kind of tedious and you could potentially run out of frames depending on the number of loops you need. I dunno, just a thought.
I remember requesting this a while back but later retracting it; don't remember why, actually. In any case, I'll add my support for this, while at the same time airing my main design concern with it:
How would it know where to jump to? Simply jumping to the beginning of the file won't be sufficient for way too many cases. If you divide the two characters of the value into position and loop count, it is still insufficient because then you can only loop the first 16 frames (or the 16 frames prior to the loop command, which would be an interesting mechanic). So it would have to interact with a jump command placed on the same line, which is a mechanic that has been requested before (jump to line X of frame Y using "jump to frame" and "jump to next frame, line X" together), but to my knowledge does not exist at the moment. Just something to keep in mind.
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I was thinking about that too and I think my conclusion was basically what you are saying. It would have to work in conjunction with the jump command. So it would loop to the frame that the jump is pointing to for whatever amount you set it to and then bypass the jump on the last loop going into a new section, into a halt command, or back to the beginning of the song depending on what is set after the jump command. Maybe that would cause too many headaches, but as it is now, that's the only way I could see it working.
[quote=rainwarrior]I would just settle for a nice frame editor which lets you select multiple rows and copy/paste/insert them as a block.[/quote]But we can already copy/paste entire patterns...
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But he means a "block", and as I understand, this block would contain all the sequences you selected but in only one frame, which would be used as a block. This would save lots of space.
One possible way to solve this could be to use a start marker of the loop (an effect letter with number 00) and an end marker (same effect letter with a loop count number).
Anyway I'll think about this since it would take some effort to add, but I can also see the use.
