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 **Overview: ** This tutorial will teach you about what actions function do in Konduktiva and how they work. **Overview: ** This tutorial will teach you about what actions function do in Konduktiva and how they work.
  
-**Things To Note:** This tutorial assumes you have already installed Konduktiva successfully using the [[https://github.com/renickbell/konduktiva|Konduktiva installation]] instructions and have read through and understood the [[:first_steps|first steps tutorial]]. The tutorial also assumes that you have imported Konduktiva to the //K// variable and assigned any of the example MusicalEnvironments to the //e// variable. 
  
-An Action Function is the function the player calls when the Konduktiva scheduler tells it that to do something. The action function the player uses can be controlled at the variable //e.players.playerName.action//. It should be a string and the strings refer to a variable which is a function in the //e.actions// object.+**Things To Note:** This tutorial assumes you have already installed Konduktiva successfully using the [[https://github.com/renickbell/konduktiva|Konduktiva installation]] instructions and have read through and understood the [[:first_steps|first steps tutorial]]. The tutorial also assumes 2 things. One, Konduktiva has been assigned to the //K// variable. Two, user created a Musical Environment using the //setUpMusicalEnvironment// function using //K.defaultConfigurationObject// as the first argument and //'exampleMidiPlayer'// as the third argument then, assigned the output to the //e// variable. 
 +<code javascript> 
 +const K = require('konduktiva') 
 +let e = K.setUpMusicalEnvironment(K.defaultConfigurationObject,4,'exampleMidiPlayer', K.exampleMusicalEnvironmentsExtraConfig) 
 +</code> 
 + 
 + 
 +An Action Function is the function the player calls when the Konduktiva scheduler tells it that to do something.  The action function the player uses can be controlled at the variable //e.players.playerName.action//. It should be a string and the strings refer to a variable which is a function in the //e.actions// object. This analogy might help, players are like an employee working in a company. The action function is the job the employee has to do and the scheduler is the manager telling the employee when to start or stop working.
 <code javascript> <code javascript>
 //Code will work if you have imported Konduktiva to K variable and assigned any of the example MusicalEnvironments to e. //Code will work if you have imported Konduktiva to K variable and assigned any of the example MusicalEnvironments to e.
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 </code> </code>
  
-To test if the action function is being triggered you can assign the player to use the default action function and turn on verbose:+To test if the action function is being triggered you can assign the player to use the default action function and turn on verbose. Verbose is a feature that will prompt the functions to log many things which is useful for debugging.:
 <code javascript> <code javascript>
 e.players.exampleMidiPlayer1.action = 'default' e.players.exampleMidiPlayer1.action = 'default'
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 If you do not, restart Konduktiva and assign the //MusicalEnvironment// to //e// again.  If you do not, restart Konduktiva and assign the //MusicalEnvironment// to //e// again. 
  
-===== Action Functions =====+===== Existing Action Functions =====
 ==== default: ==== ==== default: ====
 {{ :default-action-funciton-flowchart.svg |}} {{ :default-action-funciton-flowchart.svg |}}
-==== midiSequencedRhythm/callMusicSynthesizerRhythm: ==== 
  
-{{ :midisequencedrhythm-callmusicsynthesizerrhythm--action-function-flowchart.svg |}} 
 ==== sendNotesMidiInfo: ===== ==== sendNotesMidiInfo: =====
  
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 **Overview: ** This tutorial will teach you how to make your own action function by going through the steps of making a new action function called //testAction//. **Overview: ** This tutorial will teach you how to make your own action function by going through the steps of making a new action function called //testAction//.
  
-**Things To Note:** This tutorial assumes you have already installed Konduktiva successfully using the [[https://github.com/renickbell/konduktiva|Konduktiva installation]] instructions and have read through and understood the [[:first_steps|first steps tutorial]]. The tutorial also assumes that you have imported Konduktiva to the //K// variable and assigned any of the example MusicalEnvironments to the //e// variable. The [[http://konduktiva.org/doku.php?id=action-functions|action functions tutorial should]] also be read.+**Things To Note:** This tutorial assumes you have already installed Konduktiva successfully using the [[https://github.com/renickbell/konduktiva|Konduktiva installation]] instructions and have read through and understood the [[:first_steps|first steps tutorial]]. The [[http://konduktiva.org/doku.php?id=action-functions|action functions tutorial should]] also be read.
  
 Setup: Setup:
 <code javascript> <code javascript>
 const K = require('konduktiva') const K = require('konduktiva')
-let e = K.setUpMusicalEnvironment(1)+let e = K.setUpMusicalEnvironment(K.defaultConfigurationObject,4,'exampleMidiPlayer', K.exampleMusicalEnvironmentsExtraConfig)
 </code> </code>
  
 +===== Example 1 =====
 The action function arguments should be in this order for Konduktiva to be able to use it properly: player name, beat, MusicalEnvironment. The action function arguments should be in this order for Konduktiva to be able to use it properly: player name, beat, MusicalEnvironment.
 So we will start this function like this: So we will start this function like this:
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     console.log('Hi this is my new action function called testAction.')     console.log('Hi this is my new action function called testAction.')
     console.log('testAction playerName: ', playerName)     console.log('testAction playerName: ', playerName)
-    console.log('testAction beat: ', b)+    console.log('testAction beat: ', e.currentBeat())
 } }
 </code> </code>
 +
 +Notice we did not use b argument. The b argument is for next onset. To get beat use e.currentBeat().
  
 Next we have to make it so the players in the MusicalEnvironment can use it. To do so, we have the add it to the actions object of the MusicalEnvironment: Next we have to make it so the players in the MusicalEnvironment can use it. To do so, we have the add it to the actions object of the MusicalEnvironment:
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 e.play('exampleMidiPlayer1') e.play('exampleMidiPlayer1')
 </code> </code>
 +
 +===== Example 2 =====
 +Making an action function that plays a random note each time it is triggered.
 +
 +<code javascript>
 +function sendRandomMidiNote(){
 +   K.checkIfUseVerboseLogging('Playing random note to midi output 0')
 +    let noteToPlay = K.randomRange(0, 127)
 +    e.midiOutputs[0].send('noteon', {
 +        note: noteToPlay,
 +      velocity: 100,
 +      channel: 0,
 +    });
 +    setTimeout(() => {
 +        e.midiOutputs[0].send('noteon', {
 +          note: noteToPlay,
 +          velocity: 100,
 +          channel: 0,
 +        });
 +   }, 1000)
 +}
 +e.actions.sendRandomMidiNote = sendRandomMidiNote
 +e.players.exampleMidiPlayer1.action = 'sendRandomMidiNote'
 +e.play('exampleMidiPlayer1')
 +</code>
 +
 +It should sound something like this:
 +
 +{{ :random-notes.mp3 |}}
  
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