v6.40+dev1101 - November 1 2021

[sockmonkey72]

v6.40+dev1101 - November 1 2021

• * Includes feature branch: media item lanes
• + Command line: support loading .RfxChain/.fxb/.fxp/.vstpreset files to new tracks
• + Drag and drop: support dragging files to undocked FX chain and mixer windows on macOS/Linux
• + Drag and drop: when dragging .RfxChain files from explorer, auto-create new tracks if necessary
• + Drag and drop: when dragging .RfxChain files from explorer, replace existing FX if alt key held
• + FX: support creating new VST instances via drag/drop of .fxp/.fxb/.vstpreset files (or loading by dragging into active FX in chain view)
• + JSFX: fix line clipping bug [t=217249]
• + Menus: when razor edits exist, enable actions that will operate on razor edit areas (cut, copy, delete, duplicate, etc)
• + Preferences: fix persistence of preference to reset MIDI pitch/CC on playback stop
• + ReaScript: increase size of task control prompt [t=259053]
• # Media item lanes: adjust track lanes after consolidating media
• # Media item lanes: collapse unused leading fixed lanes when initially setting track to fixed lane mode
• # Media item lanes: improve behavior when moving razor edits across tracks with fixed lanes
• # Media item lanes: improve razor edit selection over media item label area
• # Render: fix video normalization
  

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[Reflected]

Originally Posted by sockmonkey72

v6.40+dev1101 - November 1 2021
[*]+ Command line: support loading .RfxChain/.fxb/.fxp/.vstpreset files to new tracks
[*]+ Drag and drop: when dragging .RfxChain files from explorer, auto-create new tracks if necessary
[*]+ Drag and drop: when dragging .RfxChain files from explorer, replace existing FX if alt key held
[*]+ FX: support creating new VST instances via drag/drop of .fxp/.fxb/.vstpreset files (or loading by dragging into active FX in chain view)

sweet!

Works like a charm! thanks a lot guys, very useful!

[bolgwrad]

First look, Media Lanes and RE are now looking really, really good!

[Skorobagatko]

Originally Posted by Reflected

sweet!

Works like a charm! thanks a lot guys, very useful!

Would be great to be able to drag & drop into the empty arrange area, where there is no tracks, like in Ableton Live. For now we can drag only into tcp and created tracks.

[Vagelis]

Few problems with RE and Media lanes.

1. it's impossible to drop an RE selection on lane-add area when we drag from middle/bottom part of the selection. We can drop it only from the top part of the selection.
EDIT: the same thing happens when the lanes are small, we can't drop the selection on lane-add area, we must zoom out first to do that.

2. when we drop on lane-add area, it looks like a misalignment of the selection and the item, also the item it doesn't look like it's in the same size of lane-add area. or it's not aligned correctly.

3. when we create new lanes with RE, it doesn't select the newest lane/lanes, but all of them.

[Vagelis]

Originally Posted by sockmonkey72

v6.40+dev1101 - November 1 2021[*]+ Menus: when razor edits exist, enable actions that will operate on razor edit areas (cut, copy, delete, duplicate, etc)

For a moment I thought we got a dedicated menu for RE.. It would be really nice when we right click on RE to show a dedicated menu where we can modify and add our actions.

[Phazma]

Originally Posted by sockmonkey72

v6.40+dev1101 - November 1 2021[*]# Render: fix video normalization

Still doesn't work here..

While the gain calculation pass goes through very quickly, the actual render pass is slower than realtime and at the end creates just a weird text document file instead of a video.

[Phazma]

Originally Posted by Vagelis

For a moment I thought we got a dedicated menu for RE.. It would be really nice when we right click on RE to show a dedicated menu where we can modify and add our actions.

I thought the same and that would have been nice. Tbh I don't understand what that changelog entry even means, if not what we both thought.

[Vagelis]

One last small display issue when dropping more than one lanes to lane-add area.
In the gif bellow, i would expect to either drop both items on add area at the same time, or as it works now one by one, but after dropping the first item the selection should change size and select the last item only.

[ovnis]

# Media item lanes: improve behavior when moving razor edits across tracks with fixed lanes

Thx you! It works well, now.

+ Menus: when razor edits exist, enable actions that will operate on razor edit areas (cut, copy, delete, duplicate, etc)

Is it possible to add these actions: copy, cut, duplicate without the MIDI hidden content.

Because actually, we can have this kind of issue:
https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=259096

[Vagelis]

Originally Posted by Phazma

I thought the same and that would have been nice. Tbh I don't understand what that changelog entry even means, if not what we both thought.

Me too, not sure yet what this does : )

[schwa]

Originally Posted by Phazma

Still doesn't work here..

While the gain calculation pass goes through very quickly, the actual render pass is slower than realtime and at the end creates just a weird text document file instead of a video.

Can you post a screenshot of your render settings? This is working as expected here in basic testing.

[schwa]

The "enable actions" changelog entry fixes a bug where some actions, like "duplicate items" for example, would be grayed out in menus if there is an active razor edit area and no media item selected. The actions are no longer grayed out, because they will operate on a razor edit area regardless of media item selection.

[ovnis]

+ Preferences: fix persistence of preference to reset MIDI pitch/CC on playback stop

It works well with the pitch data inside the MIDI editor.

But it still does not work well with reacontrolmidi which controls the pitchbend.

The issue:
https://forum.cockos.com/showpost.ph...95&postcount=4

[schwa]

Originally Posted by ovnis

Is it possible to add these actions: copy, cut, duplicate without the hidden content.

That would be a nice feature but it's a bit complex to add, so it may not happen immediately.

[Vagelis]

Originally Posted by schwa

The "enable actions" changelog entry fixes a bug where some actions, like "duplicate items" for example, would be grayed out in menus if there is an active razor edit area and no media item selected. The actions are no longer grayed out, because they will operate on a razor edit area regardless of media item selection.

Ah I see, thanks for the clarification! I didn't notice it before since I don't use a menu for these actions.

[ovnis]

Great!

A little correction:

Is it possible to add these actions: copy, cut, duplicate without the MIDI hidden content.

[Phazma]

Originally Posted by schwa

Can you post a screenshot of your render settings? This is working as expected here in basic testing.

[schwa]

OK, thanks. This may be a mac-specific issue, and it may be the case that the rendered file did not get the proper filename extension added to it (it might instead have no extension). Could you check to see if that is the case and if so, see if adding .mov to the filename makes it load properly?

[Phazma]

Yes, adding .mov turns it into a correctly rendered video!

[_Stevie_]

Originally Posted by schwa

That would be a nice feature but it's a bit complex to add, so it may not happen immediately.

That would be wonderful.

[Phazma]

Limiting a video render also doesn't work. There is no difference between switching the limiter on or off. Maybe has to do with the same mac bug?

[mtk]

Something strange happens when I change the height of TCP:





Looks like the bg image (tcp_idxbg, tcp_idxbg_sel) is changing ratio *2 or /2.

The same on the following setups:
- macos mojave with retina (macbook pro 15)
- macos bigsur mac mini m1 with external 4k screen (retina pixel density)

v6.40+dev1030
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[n997]

• + Drag and drop: when dragging .RfxChain files from explorer, auto-create new tracks if necessary
• + Drag and drop: when dragging .RfxChain files from explorer, replace existing FX if alt key held
• + FX: support creating new VST instances via drag/drop of .fxp/.fxb/.vstpreset files (or loading by dragging into active FX in chain view)
  

Thanks for these!

Do I understand correctly that .fxp/.fxb drag & drop function does the following:
- reads VST plugin's unique ID from the .fxp/fxb file
- and then loads the first VST plugin in REAPER's plugin list that has the same ID?

[Phazma]

Originally Posted by sockmonkey72

[*]+ Drag and drop:

As you are working on FX drag and drop workflow, would it be possible to get an option to change mouse modifiers for move/copy FX?

All over macOS and apps written for it, dragging an element without modifier moves it and dragging it while holding alt copies it. Reaper's mouse modifiers allow to mimic this behavior in most contexts (eg. dragging items), but not when dragging FX.

This leads to inconsistency where to this date I (and probably other mac users) have to think "wait, was it alt or cmd to move FX?" before doing it.

Also dragging an FX from one track to another (no modifier) copies it, while dragging on the same track just moves/reorders it -> inconsistent.

I hope you can make it possible to allow simple mouse-drag to always move FX and alt-mouse-drag to copy them. Of course the same applies to eventual other contexts with the same issue (can't think of any right now).

[nikki5000]

Thanks for the update!

Regarding Drag and Drop, would it be possible to have Drag and Drop for Items in the arrange window to VST Samplers/Synths/etc. on mac? That would be soooo great

https://forum.cockos.com/showthread....highlight=drop
https://forum.cockos.com/showthread....highlight=drop
https://forum.cockos.com/showthread....highlight=drop
https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=184823


I'm pretty sure there are more threads about this topic

[Triode]

Originally Posted by Phazma

As you are working on FX drag and drop workflow, would it be possible to get an option to change mouse modifiers for move/copy FX?

All over macOS and apps written for it, dragging an element without modifier moves it and dragging it while holding alt copies it. Reaper's mouse modifiers allow to mimic this behavior in most contexts (eg. dragging items), but not when dragging FX.

This leads to inconsistency where to this date I (and probably other mac users) have to think "wait, was it alt or cmd to move FX?" before doing it.

Also dragging an FX from one track to another (no modifier) copies it, while dragging on the same track just moves/reorders it -> inconsistent.

I hope you can make it possible to allow simple mouse-drag to always move FX and alt-mouse-drag to copy them. Of course the same applies to eventual other contexts with the same issue (can't think of any right now).

I would like that also. Mouse modifiers for drag and drop (and click on) mixer fx instances

[Phazma]

Originally Posted by nikki5000

Regarding Drag and Drop, would it be possible to have Drag and Drop for Items in the arrange window to VST Samplers/Synths/etc. on mac? That would be soooo great

Big +1! I hope in the next dev cycles we will see some more work going into various drag and drop features.

[Embass]

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[bFooz]

+ Project: add title field in Project Settings/Info dialog, accessible to render, metadata, etc wildcards as $title
+ Project notes: support optional word wrap

The TAB ordering is wrong. It goes to checkmarks first and only then to the notes field.

[Embass]

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[mccrabney]

i have to ask again, this bottom-half dragging = pushdown to next lane isn't intended behavior, is it?



it just seems weird to restrict in-lane item editing to the upper half of the lane only, reserving the lower half for pushing the object to the next lane. particularly when these mini-lanes' bottom half areas keep shifting as new mini-lanes are created

isn't this what the "lane-add" area is for?

[mccrabney]

i really like what i'm seeing here with overlapping fixed lane MIDI items. below, recording over these items results in the incoming MIDI recording to the next existent item as the play cursor traverses them.



however, i think it would be better if the switch happened sooner -- MIDI should be recorded to the most recent MIDI item over which the play cursor has entered. notes started in the old item should be ended there, but new notes should start recording immediately on the newest items.

this would effectively implement the note-off dangle request., particularly combined with a script that would split a MIDI item at cursor into 2 fixed lane items, cutting around noteoffs to create overlapping items.

[Jae.Thomas]

Originally Posted by schwa

OK, thanks. This may be a mac-specific issue, and it may be the case that the rendered file did not get the proper filename extension added to it (it might instead have no extension). Could you check to see if that is the case and if so, see if adding .mov to the filename makes it load properly?

mine adds mov and still renders black.

does it have to do with multichannel?

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