function makePulses(frameLengthsMS, orderedOdors)
global state

sample_rate = getGlobal(progmanager, 'sampleRate', 'ephys', 'ephys');
trace_length_in_samples = round(sum(frameLengthsMS) * length(orderedOdors) * sample_rate/1000); 
if trace_length_in_samples == 0
    return
end

stim_literal_pulse = zeros(1, trace_length_in_samples);
state_literal_pulse = zeros(1, trace_length_in_samples);

for i=1:length(orderedOdors)
    start = round( ((i-1) * sum(frameLengthsMS)*10) + frameLengthsMS(1)*10);
    stop = round( ((i-1) * sum(frameLengthsMS)*10) + sum(frameLengthsMS(1:2))*10);
    stim_literal_pulse(start:stop) = 10000;
    state_literal_pulse(start:stop) = orderedOdors(i)*1000;
end

stimPulse = signalobject('Name', 'olfactoTrigPulse', 'sampleRate', 10000);
literal(stimPulse, stim_literal_pulse);

statePulse = signalobject('Name', 'olfactoStatePulse', 'sampleRate', 10000);
literal(statePulse, state_literal_pulse);

allPulses = [stimPulse, statePulse];

destdir = 'C:\scanimage_conf\olfactoPulses\olfactoPulses';

for signal = allPulses
    saveCompatible(fullfile(destdir, [get(signal, 'Name') '.signal']), 'signal', '-mat');
end

delete(allPulses)

% set acquierer, ephys, and stim trace lengths
ephys_setTraceLength(ceil(trace_length_in_samples/sample_rate));
acq_setTraceLength(ceil(trace_length_in_samples/sample_rate));
stim_setTraceLength(ceil(trace_length_in_samples/sample_rate));

end