Macro / Macro editor

The macro engine seems quite primitive to me, is there any work being done on this part of the software?

If I manually record a macro and adjust the timings to speed up the macro sometimes the desk does it correctly and sometimes not. The only solution is to slow the macro down. The desk should be able to "follow" each step in a macro by itself instead of just waiting a preset time after the previous step started.

To me it seems the desk gives some other processing a higher priority, which is fine, but the other processes running shouldn't have influence on the end result of the macro.

If I could just put all the wait times to follow I would be shure each step has been executed.

Also adding and moving steps in the macro editor isn't possible?
You can record manually and ad steps to the end of a macro but if I just want to add a line in-between in the editor I can't seem to find how to.

For me it would be the preferred way to completely make a macro, no manual recording but typing it in line by line.

There's also limited acces to functions, if I want to record and replace a pallet or a cue I have to add screen down and screen up steps in the macro while it should be possible to just ad an option "merge, insert, replace,..." after the record step.
This would bypass the pop-up.
I know you can select that option just after you pressed record to bypass the pop-up but that still involves screen down and screen up steps.
The screen up and screen down functions are the most annoying because the macro has to recall view to be sure these functions work good.

But while I'm busking I don't want my view to change, even if I recall my busking view at the end of the macro.
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  • Just tried it all again on the Hog4 PC (for the moment the Nano is with AED for repair and I have a RH4 I'm using for the shows)

    PC does it all good with 0.01 times now, same show on RH4 doesn't do good at all with the same macro's. I might try a full reinstall on the RH instead of just the V2.3.0 update I did because I don't know what happend with this RH before.

    I just had a crash on the RH a few minutes ago trying out these simple macro's. (black screen, only cursor left) That's when I switched to my PC.

    The softkeypress step on the RH4 for instance in the macro didn't work (it still gave me insert, merge, replace, cancel popup) on the PC it works as it should.

    Anyway, not to let this thread get lost into a useless request for a better engine (as it is likely to be good, only a problem with this specific RH)

    I would like to have the possibility to add a step to a Macro, in the Macro editor itself.
    Would be useful when you forgot to clear the programmer at the beginning of the macro you just add that step.
    Or if you made a Macro with a single digit group or pallet in it and you want to change it to a double digit or tripple then you could add a line for second and third digit.
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  • Just tried it all again on the Hog4 PC (for the moment the Nano is with AED for repair and I have a RH4 I'm using for the shows)

    PC does it all good with 0.01 times now, same show on RH4 doesn't do good at all with the same macro's. I might try a full reinstall on the RH instead of just the V2.3.0 update I did because I don't know what happend with this RH before.

    I just had a crash on the RH a few minutes ago trying out these simple macro's. (black screen, only cursor left) That's when I switched to my PC.

    The softkeypress step on the RH4 for instance in the macro didn't work (it still gave me insert, merge, replace, cancel popup) on the PC it works as it should.

    Anyway, not to let this thread get lost into a useless request for a better engine (as it is likely to be good, only a problem with this specific RH)

    I would like to have the possibility to add a step to a Macro, in the Macro editor itself.
    Would be useful when you forgot to clear the programmer at the beginning of the macro you just add that step.
    Or if you made a Macro with a single digit group or pallet in it and you want to change it to a double digit or tripple then you could add a line for second and third digit.
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