control over amplitude distribution

[bendichter]

Request by Liam Paninski

[alejoe91]

Thanks @bendichter

@colehurwitz
The way one can control amplitude distribution i(or anything else) is the following:

# load templates
tempgen = mr.load_templates("path-to-h5")

# define a custom way to select the templates you want, e.g. by imposing amplitude distributions, locations, etc
templates = tempgen.templates
my_template_ids = my_function_to_select_template_idxs(templates)

# generate the recording with the pre-selected templates
recgen = mr.generate_recording(tempgen=tempgen, params=your_params, template_ids=my_template_ids)

This will skip the internal template selection and directly use the provided template indices.