The Scripter book is updated!

I'm proud to announce I have released a major update to the Scripter book:The Complete Guide to Logic Pro's Scripter by Philip Regan, exclusively on Apple Books (ISBN: 978-0-578-37719-3, $29.99)

Just like it says in the description, Scripter allows musicians to capture and manipulate MIDI in real-time with JavaScript. Everything you need to know about how to use Scripter for your music is in The Complete Guide to Logic’s Pro’s Scripter. Written for musicians and programmers of any skill level, this guide comes with comprehensive overviews of Scripter’s functions, a music-based JavaScript tutorial inside which takes you from your first line of JavaScript to an entire script, a link to a free open source code library on GitHub, and working examples of features not covered in Apple’s own documentation.

This update to the title addresses the following:

• New Design Pattern chapter, which explains common implementations and adds some new ones. These should be a good starting point for complex scripts and functionality. Topics include the following:
• Tracking active notes with an array and an object.
• Handling complex parameter control changes.
• Weighted random selection
• Managing music theory: Scales, chords, note lengths
• Tracking the playhead across process blocks
• New scripts in the free code repository have been added containing examples of Design Patterns and their implementation.
• Improved descriptions of Scripter’s behaviors for the console and its architec- ture.
• Minor text and code corrections.
• All code in the free code repository have been updated to include the MIT
• License and according to changes in the book.

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