What is a do block?

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1

I want to program a transition where multiple lines have to be evaluated at the same time.
So on the next cycle I want multiple different things to begin playing at the same time.

I stumbled across do blocks when trying to figure this out.
I have:

d1 $ slow 2 $ up "[0, -5, 7, 12] [-5, 0, 4, 12]" # sound "arco"
d2 $ up "[-5]" # sound "moogywoogy"

If I want them both to play at the same time on the next cycle would I just add:

do
    d1 $ slow 2 $ up "[0, -5, 7, 12] [-5, 0, 4, 12]" # sound "arco"
    d2 $ up "[-5]" # sound "moogywoogy"

Or is there something I'm missing?
I've tried this and so far I get an error saying "empty do block"

2

it works for me, be sure to evaluate the whole block of code and not just the line that contains the do
(using the atom-plugin that would be Ctrl-Enter instead of Shift-Enter)

3

Okay, that works! Thank you!
I was googling ways to play multiple things at once in Tidal and stumbled upon this video:

and at 4'50 he brings in do blocks without really elaborating on the ctr-enter part haha
I couldn't find anything else about them in the tidal website in the reference section either.

I remember I once participated in a workshop with yaxu on Tidal and he explained a couple methods for programming drops and things like that but it has been so long since then.
Thank you!

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