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Bome MIDI Translator: User's Manual 9 Actions

9.3 Timer

With a Timer, you can create delayed and reoccurring actions. A Timer will,

when its time has elapsed, inject an Incoming Event into the processing

engine. You can execute a Timer with an Incoming Action just like any other

event.

In general, this is how a timer works when activated in an Outgoing Action:

1. Wait for the Initial Delay.

2. Fire off an Incoming Timer Event with the name of the timer into the

MT processing engine.

3. In the engine, all translators with Incoming Timer action and the

timer's name will be executed.

4. If this is a Once timer, stop timer.

5. If this is a Multiple Times timer and number of executions has reached

the Repeat Count, stop timer.

6. Wait for the Repeat Delay.

7. Start over at 2.

9.3.1 Incoming Timer

Incoming Timer actions are events

that will trigger once or multiple times

automatically depending on the Timer

settings. Incoming Timer actions must

be tied to an already-existing Outgoing

Timer Action in order to work properly.

Defining Incoming Timer actions is

very simple - the only option is the selection of which Timer to use. Most of

the Timer options are defined in the Outgoing Timer Action screen, which is

covered below.

Note that you can specify multiple translators with the same Incoming Timer

as incoming action. It's a convenient way to execute multiple outgoing

actions with one single trigger.