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Old 10-17-2016, 02:10 AM   #69
lb0
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Ok - a few pointers. Click the LIVE MODE button to switch between LIVE and EDIT modes. I'm guessing most people will get this from the video or intuitively.

SAVE button - most important - press the SAVE button to save current state to the project (so before saving the project). If you have only worked in LIVE mode - you may not need to do this - and indeed if you worked in EDIT mode - but switched back to LIVE mode before saving the project - you may also not need to do this - as switching from EDIT to LIVE (or closing script window) automatically saves the state. What this does is save all the control positons/pages/mappings etc to the project file, so they can all be recalled when you next open the project and start the script. Changes made in LIVE mode to parameters etc are not needed to be saved - as they are recalled by the script direct from the plugins themselves.

The button underneath the LIVE/EDIT MODE button (when in EDIT mode) - switches between the 3 edit mode -

EDIT MODE
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Pages 1-4 buttons switch between pages.

Click Grid - to switch the grid visibility (does not switch snapping off though).

Right-click grid and drag - alter grid size.

Disable snapping to grid by either setting grid size to 1 or holding shift when dragging controls/strips/graphics.

Note - grid will not display if set less than 16 (performance reasons).

STRIPS
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- here you can drag strips into the control area, Save current controls as a strip (please note - only one page is saved at a time - if you use multiple pages (the numbers 1-4 top right) - each page should be saved separately at the moment.

When in Strips mode - you can also click and drag entire strips around the control area - and remove entire strips from the control area. Shift drag will ignore the grid.

FX PARAMS
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- here you add track fx parameters to the control area. The top list shows the FX plugins for the track, the bottom list shows the individual parameters.

You can drag single/multiple parameter controls around the control area (left click to select single control, Ctrl left click to select multiple controls, or right-click and drag to 'lasso' the controls).

When one or more controls are selected - the CTL OPTIONS menu will be visible (on the right of the control area). Here you can alter various settings for the selected control/s. All settings are updated live and instantly as you change them - except for the control selector (image of control) - this one you can cycle through the available control - and click SET button underneath to set the selected controls to choose the control bitmap.

The OFFSET option moves the control name and value text relative to eachother. The VAL OFF option - lets you move the value text independantly from the name text.

The DEF VAL option lets you select the (ctrl click in LIVE mode) default value for the control. You can shift drag the slider to easily select the middle settings (or centre left and right) - as the slider currently can be a little difficult to control).

The control type button has options: KNOB/SLIDER / BUTTON / BUTTON INV / CYCLE BUTTON (not used yet) / METER:
KNOB/SLIDER - the default control type to allow normal interaction with a knob/slider type control.
BUTTON - switches the control between ON/OFF states - works best with 2 frame controls.
BUTTON INV - inverses polarity of drawing control - useful when for instance adding a BYPASS button which actually indicates OFF when it is 'ON'
CYCLE BUTTON - not yet implemented - use KNOB/SLIDER instead as it works ok - but you would need to drag the control still.
METER - displays a value but allows for no user interaction with the control - I forgot to add any meter style controls to the initial beta version - will sort soon.

Most sliders within the CTL OPTIONS section can be 'mouse wheeled' for fine control.

Drag any selected controls to the BIN icon to remove them from the control area.

Shift dragging controls will break the positioning away from the selected GRID size.

Right click an FX name - opens the fx plugin window.

GRAPHICS
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- This mode lets you load background graphics images to the control area. You can load as many as you like (bearing in mind each one will use up RAM). At the moment - they are fixed in order front to back - so the newest added graphics will always display on top.

Graphics images must reside in the Graphics folder in Scripts/LBXCS_resources folder. Not sure exactly what graphics formats work - but PNG and JPG are fine. You must restart the script to populate the graphics list with new images. - will hopefully add an import option to make adding new graphics easier but it's not high on my list of things to do.

You can drag graphics about when in this mode (only one at a time) and also drag to BIN icon to remove.

Shift drag will break the positioning away from the selected GRID size.



SETTINGS
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Open settings by clicking the * button at top.

Follow Selected Track - if you change track anywhere in Reaper - the script will follow this so always show the strip for the selected track.

Auto centre controls - not working currently - probably take out as was from an early version.

Save all track fx with strip - select this to save all fx plugins in a tracks chain when saving a strip - useful if a strip has plugins with no controls on the strip but are required for your chain.

Control refresh rate - if you have loads of controls all being automated - you can save CPU by reducing the redraw framerate with this control. Leave all the way to the right for smoothest framerate (but lowest performance). With a decent CPU - and typical usage - this should be fine.

Lock Control Window Width/Height - Used to restrict the visible control display size - very useful when using in the docker. You still get to use the full page size (2048*2048) by using up and down arrows (next to the X,Y buttons - which are used for activating/deactivating the screen restrictions). Eg. When you set the lock Y option - you can only scroll horizontally in the window by dragging the control area surface. You must use the up/down arrows to move up and down a fx 'lane'. Obviously - when using this mode - your strips must be of a size that will fit nicely in the restricted area.


LIVE MODE
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The main mode for when you are mixing/editing music etc. Simply shows the controls - which you can interact with.

Click and drag a knob/slider - alters the value of the fx parameter. Shift click - fine tune. Ctrl click - set to default value. Right-click - open modulation/learn menu.

Click a button - toggle between states.

Drag the control background - move the window about (depending on X/Y settings).

Click in the track list to open controls for the selected track.



And there's probably other stuff I've forgotten and will explain if you find it or when I remember...

Last edited by lb0; 10-17-2016 at 02:36 AM. Reason: Corrections/Adding things...
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