Sorry, but I'm struggling to understand what you're giving me to work with.
I'm sure it's great and a great solution to my need to produce a text file list of the control track song title info I enter to keep track of the concert recording sessions I so often work with. But I have no clue how to use Auto Hotkeys and/or your utility.
It's just not making sense to my tiny, old brain cells, I guess. I really do appreciate the help you've offered, though. Maybe I'll get it figured out sometime.

This has nothing particularly to do with powershell. PS is just one of the ways to run a program in windows (and in more recent win 11 it may open instead of the old command shell).

& 'C:\Program Files\SSC2T\bin\control2tempo.exe' 'Path_to_your.edl' -c

...is a program I wrote to generate tempo-maps from specially named control cues. To help me get it working, I added a couple of reporting features. The
-c
flag causes the program to just read an edl file, and dump all the control entries in a comma delimited format (csv) that can be opened in an spreadsheet. If you had a complex edl with a huge number of cues, it could be useful for that purpose.


Test case? Copy this to notepad, save it with a .csv extension and open it in a spreadsheet:

'datatype','name','ctrltype','sample',UnknowncSST1,'mididata','ukn1','ukn2','ukn3','endfiller'
4,'Verse_1',20,647904,0,'FF(*64)',0,-1,0,'FF(*64)'
4,'Chorus_1',20,2101000,0,'FF(*64)',0,-1,0,'FF(*64)'

...the big number is the sample. If you divided the values in that column by the the sample-rate (2101000/48000) it would tell you how many seconds into the edl you are at (presuming 'home' is at 0).

jmh wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2026 6:51 am Ohh! I've been waiting a year for someone to ask this question.

PS C:\SSC2T\docs> & 'C:\Program Files\SSC2T\bin\control2tempo.exe' "C:\SAWStudio64\Audio\test.edl" -c

..............

This - I don't understand.
I know Power Shell (PS) a tiny bit - only because I've had to use it to fix a Windows issue in the past - and was only able to perform the task(s), because I had a specific, stepwise set of instructions in each case... likewise with any dos-related operations I've ever had to use, including things like scanning for errors, etc. In other words, I am totally incapable of using PS-type tools without a full set of instructions for the task at hand... but I'm totally up for using the tools, when I have some level of confidence in their use for specific tasks.

Could you possibly show me an example of how I would use your instructions for a hypothetical case where I would copy text from the Control Track window To Notepad (or to csv, which I could then copy to a Notepad list)? I think that I could then use your example to adapt to my own use.

jmh wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2026 6:56 am Oh yeah, to grab a single entry:

(EDIT:) In 'Control Track View',

double left click
n
ctrl-c

Yes... I understand this and I am well-familiar with its use.

Didn't get to it today, because someone sent me a txt file of the set lists from this concert - much easier.

There's other concerts I need to work on soon where I can try this out - still have to convert from csv to txt, anyway.... a two-step process.

Ok... I know next to nothing about the process you just posted.
But I appreciate it and will give it a shot later today and see if I can make it happen.

Oh yeah, to grab a single entry:

(EDIT:) In 'Control Track View',

double left click
n
ctrl-c

Ohh! I've been waiting a year for someone to ask this question.

PS C:\SSC2T\docs> & 'C:\Program Files\SSC2T\bin\control2tempo.exe' "C:\SAWStudio64\Audio\test.edl" -c

'datatype','name','ctrltype','sample',UnknowncSST1,'mididata','ukn1','ukn2','ukn3','endfiller'
4,'Verse_1',20,647904,0,'FF(*64)',0,-1,0,'FF(*64)'
4,'Chorus_1',20,2101000,0,'FF(*64)',0,-1,0,'FF(*64)'

...not to text - but csv.

You can redirect it into a csv file (then open it with a spreadsheet), thusly:

& 'C:\Program Files\SSC2T\bin\control2tempo.exe' "C:\SAWStudio64\Audio\test.edl" -c > $env:TEMP\outputfilename.csv
Notes:

• These are the powershell versions of the command
  & is an ampersand - but it looks kind of weird to me in this font

The link is here:
viewtopic.php?p=225797#p225797
It is an unsigned file so you have to go through some steps to install it. You could submit it to virustotal (which I have never done) if you want to feel secure.

Is there an easy way to copy text from the Control Track window To Notepad?

So far, I've only done screen shots and pasted images to Wordpad.
But I'd like to be able to simply copy and paste the song titles (in this case)
and add them to a running list of concert lists I've already got in Notepad,
without having to type them out again.