ReaConsole

[sws]

Apr 22 08 UPDATE: v.3.

Now that the new wonderful REAPER SDK is available, I had to try it out. One thing that has always bugged me about DAWs in general is the reliance on the mouse, so I wrote a plugin that lets you perform common track operations with the keyboard. Now when I'm listening to a 50+ track mix and I think, "hmm, guitar 3 should go down by a bit", I don't have to hunt for the track fader.

It's not too easy to explain, so here's a quick example - Press 'c', box opens, enter a command, say "v*gtr* -1", which turns the volume of all tracks with "gtr" in the title down by 1db. Or, "msnare,6" to toggle mute on the track labeled snare and track #6.

The full instructions and download information are at http://www.standingwaterstudios.com/reaper. The examples section is probably most helpful in getting you up and running.

Consider this thread the "official" place for ReaConsole bug reports/feature requests. It's still in it's infancy; you probably won't want to try it out for the first time on some really important project.

Enjoy!
-Tim

[griz lee]

Wow. Thank you for making this.

I normally run a mile from anything with 'console' in the name, but this is spectacular.

I can now mute/unmute huge numbers of tracks at a time, set their gains etc.

W - o - r - k -- f - l - o - w !!

Seriously nice for large sessions where you need to do perform a lot of the same operation. Very appreciated : i look forwards to future developments.

My dream one days is to tell reaper to insert/cut/replace the plugin specified on tracks 1-20. Do you think that will be possible with the SDK?

Extremely cool and many thanks.

[Bevosss]

I just tried this out, it works great! I'm not sure exactly what I'll use it for, but it works so well, I'm sure I'll find something it speeds up.

Cheers man!

[Xenakios]

Excellent stuff. With some little testing I didn't find any obvious serious bugs. The panning commands maybe don't work as expected, what the values do, is a bit unpredictable/not obvious. I'd like some more complex commands, too. Like randomized values and such.

LoL, now there's also APIs for mixer sends! Some more work for you, SWS, I guess...

[d. gauss]

still hoping someone can make reaper do this as a pseudo virtual 10 track control surface:

http://www.cockos.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13638

http://www.betteroffdead.com/qwertymix.jpg

[plamuk]

i almost just voided my bowels, at work
this is fkin' INCREDIBLE
for soooo many things, i wish i could just steer clear of the damn mouse
i cannot wait to try this
so many things to try, not enough time...gawd