CALLMACRO / MACRO

This is a “helping” user action, which lets you call a macro. It has two usecases I have come across so far:

is to call a macro with the use of variables to composite the name of the macro to call.

Example:
You have a specific macro for each track (1-4) called.: $TRACK-1$; $TRACK-2$; $TRACK-3$; $TRACK-4$

Now you want to call one of these macros depending on a variable %TRACKNUMBER% = 2 and $TRACK-%TRACKNUMBER%$ which does not work unfortunately.

With the user action callmacro or macro you can do it, because you don’t need the $ signs: macro TRACK-%TRACKNUMBER%

Depending on your setup this might saves you tons of time and makes you set more efficent. I came across this on a Q&A and I discovered I had the user action lying on my shelf since quite a while.

call a macro from inside another macro:

e.g.:

$macro1$ = msg "yes"
$macro2$ = 1 / MUTE ; macro macro1 ; 2 / MUTE ;

will work, but doing it as this will not work, because the quotation marks mess up everything:

$macro1$ = msg "yes"
$macro2$ = 1 / MUTE ; $macro1$ ; 2 / MUTE ;