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//
// Did you ever wonder how to easily schedule starting/stopping patterns at specific times 
// as part of building up and evolving a piece from a smaller building blocks?
// Here's a simple approach.
//
// It can be kept very basic because it specifies start and stop in beats, 
// and not in absolute time. This means that the TempoClock used for playing the pattern
// will influence the timeline.
//
// Nevertheless, it can already be useful.
//
//
// Manual: 
//
// schedule pattern to start on beat a and run until beat b with:
//
// ptl.beat(a, b, pattern)
//
// schedule pattern to start on beat a, and stop after producing N events with:
//
// ptl.number(a, N, pattern)
//
// finally, after configuring your timeline, it's time to play it. Do:
//
// ptl.asPattern.play
//
// don't pay attention to the stupid patterns in the example below, they are just 
// for demoing the timeline
//

(
s.waitForBoot({
	var ptl = (
		\internallist : [],
		\beat : {
			| self, start_beat, stop_beat, pattern |
			self[\internallist] = self[\internallist].add(Ptpar([start_beat, Pfindur(stop_beat - start_beat, pattern)]));
		},
		\number : {
			| self, start_beat, no_of_events, pattern |
			self[\internallist] = self[\internallist].add(Ptpar([start_beat, Pfin(no_of_events, pattern)]));
		},
		\asPattern : {
			|self|
			Ppar(self[\internallist]);
		}
	);
	
	~bpm = 60; // at 60 beats per minute, one beat takes one second
	~tc = TempoClock(~bpm/60);
	
	// now schedule patterns in any order
	ptl.beat(0, 10, // first pattern to run from beat 0 to beat 10
		Pbind(\instrument, \default, \midinote, Pseq([65], inf).trace, \amp, 0.8, \dur, 1));
	ptl.beat(5.7,  7.3, // second pattern to run from beat 5.7 to beat 7.3
		Pbind(\instrument, \default, \midinote, Pseq([70], inf).trace, \amp, 0.8, \dur, 0.1));
	ptl.beat(3, 10, // fourth pattern to run from beat 3 and produce 10 notes
		Pbind(\instrument, \default, \midinote, Pseq([53], inf).trace, \amp, 0.8, \dur, 0.3));
	
	// don't start multiple instances of the same timeline simultaneously
	if (~player.notNil) {
		~player.stop;
	};
	~player = ptl.asPattern.play(~tc);
});
)


// here's an experimental (not very well tested) extension of the system that also supports
// scheduling using absolute time moments (start/stop time independent of tempoclock)
// 
// note that the patterns scheduled with absolute time still obey the tempoclock
//
// extra calls are
//
// ptl.abstime(abs_start_time, abs_duration, pattern)
// 
// ptl.abstimenumber(abs_start_time, number, pattern)
//
// other changes:
//
// asPattern call is removed and timeline self-manages its players
// ptl is now equipped with a "start" and "end" api call to start/end playing

(
s.waitForBoot({
	var ptl = (
		\internalcounter : 0,
		\internalnewcounter : {
			| self |
			var cnt = self[\internalcounter];
			self[\internalcounter] = self[\internalcounter] + 1;
			cnt;
		},
		\internallist : [],
		\abssched : [],
		\internalplayers : (),
		\beat : {
			| self, start_beat, stop_beat, pattern |
			self[\internallist] = self[\internallist].add(Ptpar([start_beat, Pfindur(stop_beat - start_beat, pattern)]));
		},
		\abstime : {
			| self, delta_time, duration, pattern |
			self[\abssched] = self[\abssched].add((\dt: delta_time, \dur: duration, \p : pattern, \type : \time));
		},
		\number : {
			| self, start_beat, no_of_events, pattern |
			self[\internallist] = self[\internallist].add(Ptpar([start_beat, Pfin(no_of_events, pattern)]));
		},
		\abstimenumber : {
			| self, delta_time, no_of_events, pattern |
			self[\abssched] = self[\abssched].add((\dt: delta_time, \dur: no_of_events, \p : pattern, \type : \number));
		},
		\start : {
			|self, tempoclock |
			if (tempoclock.isNil) {
				tempoclock = TempoClock.default;
			};
			self[\abssched].do({
				|el|
				var cnt = self.internalnewcounter;
				var type = el.type;
				if (type == \time) {
					SystemClock.sched(el.dt, { self[\internalplayers][cnt.asSymbol] = el.p.play(tempoclock); nil});
					SystemClock.sched(el.dt + el.dur, { self[\internalplayers][cnt.asSymbol].stop; nil});
				} {
					SystemClock.sched(el.dt, { self[\internalplayers][cnt.asSymbol] = Pfin(el.dur, el.p).play(tempoclock); nil});
				};
			});
			self[\internalplayers][self.internalnewcounter.asSymbol] = Ppar(self[\internallist]).play(tempoclock);
		},
		\end : {
			| self |
			self[\internalplayers].keysValuesDo({
				| key, value |
				value.stop;
			});
			self[\internalplayers] = ();
		};
	);
	
	~bpm = 120; // at 60 beats per minute, one beat takes one second
	~tc = TempoClock(~bpm/60);
	
	// now schedule patterns in any order
	ptl.beat(0, 10, // first pattern to run from beat 0 to beat 10
		Pbind(\instrument, \default, \midinote, Pseq([65], inf).trace, \amp, 0.8, \dur, 1));
	ptl.beat(5.7,  7.3, // second pattern to run from beat 5.7 to beat 7.3
		Pbind(\instrument, \default, \midinote, Pseq([70], inf).trace, \amp, 0.8, \dur, 0.1));
	ptl.abstimenumber(2, 10,
		Pbind(\instrument, \default, \midinote, Pseq([90], inf).trace, \amp, 0.8, \dur, 1));
	ptl.beat(3, 10, // fourth pattern to run from beat 3 and produce 10 notes
		Pbind(\instrument, \default, \midinote, Pseq([53], inf).trace, \amp, 0.8, \dur, 0.3));
	
	ptl.start(~tc);
});
)
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