The key to having a high level score is to factor out repeated aspects. There turn out to be a lot of different ways things are repeated in music, and most of the complexity in Karya is concerned with different ways to factor out repetition.
Calls are one approach. A single ornament or idiomatic phrase can be factored into a call, and parameterized with arguments and signals. Similarly, a section and a whole score is factored into a block call, and can still be varied by means of different signals, tempo, etc. If factoring fails, there’s always copy and paste, and since music often has repeats with small idiosyncratic differences, factoring fails often.
Integration is a middle ground. It takes the output of derivation and integrates it back into the score. It also keeps track of the source, and when that changes will reintegrate back into the destination. There is a simplistic merge algorithm described in Cmd.Integrate.Merge. Each event keeps track of its source, and can detect position, duration, and text changes, but it’s probably not terribly difficult to confuse it.
Since track structure is lost during derivation, integration has to recreate it. It’s described by Cmd.Integrate.Convert.TrackKey, but basically it tries to keep the source tracks and their order, while splitting overlapping events and differing instruments. It also splits on the Derive.EnvKey.voice variable, and calls that expect their output will be integrated can set this to explicitly divide their output events into separate tracks.
As a visual reminder, events that were integrated from a source have their text in italics, and it will be bold if the event hasn’t been changed.
Block integration is triggered by adding a << as a note transformer. It only works if you add it to a block title, because Ui.Block.block_integrated keeps track of block integration by BlockId.
This will automatically create a new block with its contents as seen by the transformer. You can create another block manually with Cmd.Repl.LIntegrate.block.
As a visual reminder, the status bar of an integrated block will have a red background.
Track integration allows one track to act as the source for other tracks on the same block. It’s basically the same story as block integration, except you add the < transformer to a note track title, and it will create a set of integrated tracks on the same block. Unlike block integrate, the < transformer will not pass the events through, so the integrated track itself won’t sound when you play it.
Similar to block integration, adding the track integrate transformer automatically creates new tracks if there were none, and Cmd.Repl.LIntegrate.track will create additional tracks.
The integrated tracks are linked back to their source with red arrows.
This is a different variant of integration, that copies the UI events directly, with no intervening derivation. So it’s not really “integration” in that it doesn’t have to try to reverse a derivation. This means that all notation will be preserved, and is useful if you simply want a variant copy of an original block or track, rather than a lower level view of it.
Like derive integration, score integration has both block and track variants. Unlike derive integration, there’s no corresponding call, you directly add the “integrated from” annotation to the relevant block or track. Cmd.Repl.LIntegrate.score_block and Cmd.Repl.LIntegrate.score_track do this for the currently selected block or track. Similar to derive integration, score integration dependency is indicated with a greenish status line for a block, or a green arrow for a track.