Action to duplicate note octave higher?

[KenC]

I'm trying to come up with an action that copies the selected note and then pastes the copy one octave higher/lower but I can't find anything that works.

I've tried creating an action that copies the selected note, then paste preserving position and then move note one octave, but for some reason some times it doesn't work, some notes it works, others it doesn't and just moves the current note placing the cursor somewhere random.

Here's the action:

Move edit cursor to start of selection.

This moves the edit cursor to the start of the selected note, this way it should always paste at the same place as the note we copy so I don't have to make sure I move the cursor to the start of the note.

Edit: Copy

Copy the selected note.

Edit: Paste preserving position in measure.

Paste the same place as we copied.

Edit: Move notes up one octave.

Some times this works, other times it just does nothing and moves the original note, some times it works but places the new note at a random place after and the edit cursor is also placed somewhere random

Anyone know how to make this work?, it's gonna come in handy when working on voicing.

[FnA]

In general I would say copy, move the original notes, then paste. Know what I mean?

[KenC]

Hmm, the other way around you mean.. gonna try that.

Just weird if I do the steps manually it works fine.

That's how I usually go about doing a custom action, figure out the steps I would do manually then plug them into a custom action.

Maybe it's a speed thing? As in the action does the steps to fast and some get skipped at random.

[FnA]

Yeah I sometimes try to put actions together like that and it doesn't work. I don't know about the speed thing. Some of my macros do simple things and take a longer time than the ones that do complicated stuff. There's also things like correct overlapping notes that need to be thought about. Not an expert really...

[KenC]

Yep, it worked moving the original then pasting the copy in place.

Here's the actions in case anyone else could use it:

Duplicate note one octave higher

Navigate: Move edit cursor to start of selection.
Edit: Copy.
Edit: Move notes up one octave.
Edit: Paste preserving position in measure.
Navigate: Move edit cursor to start of selection.
Navigate: Select next note

Duplicate note one octave lower

Navigate: Move edit cursor to start of selection.
Edit: Copy.
Edit: Move notes down one octave.
Edit: Paste preserving position in measure.
Navigate: Move edit cursor to start of selection.
Navigate: Select previous note

The "Navigate: Move edit cursor to start of selection" is needed to make sure the edit cursor is put at the start otherwise the pasted note ends up after the original. I put it at the end again, so after the pasted note it's ready to play to preview the change.

EDIT: Added select next/previous note, this is so the new note is now selected so you can keep hitting the action.

[misterN22]

I have a script that is exactly what you need. Separate command to copy selected notes octave down and up


https://stash.reaper.fm/49220/Duplic...ave%20DOWN.lua

https://stash.reaper.fm/49221/Duplic...ctave%20UP.lua

[Tobbe]

11 years later

[Amely_Suncroll]

Sorry I'm late, but... Perhaps just right now someone is looking for it, too.

[Bassman002]

HI

Often when a script doesn't work you have to input some Wait commands, there are a few with 0.1, 0.5 and 1 second I think...

Bassman.