ReaPlugs Updates And Requested Features

Birdy · 01-02-2018, 01:43 PM

I absolutely love ReaPlugs, they are 95% of what I use, for years now!
There are a few features I'd like to see added:

ReaEQ:
- A new HPF LPF band type that works like a traditional EQ does, with 6/12/18/24 db per octave.
- Size adjustment / limit for the GUI
- A band type that works like the filters in ReaDelay! (maybe there already is one that I don't know about, it just sounds so good!)

ReaDelay:
- "Ping Pong" button
- "Reverse" button

ReaComp:
- "Range" slider, setting the maximum amount of gain reduction allowed.
- Release values between 0 and 1

ReaTune:
- Playing an audible note when clicking on the keyboard part of the manual correction piano roll

Thanks!

Masi · 01-03-2018, 03:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Birdy

- A new HPF LPF band type that works like a traditional EQ does, with 6/12/18/24 db per octave.

This request has been around for ages

Masi

Birdy · 01-07-2018, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Masi

This request has been around for ages

Masi

Haha yes I'm very aware of that...

EpicSounds · 01-07-2018, 06:35 PM

adding to your list

ReaEQ
- Add ability to automate master gain

ReaXComp
- Group band controls

ReaGate
- Ratio or reduction amount

Birdy · 01-08-2018, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by EpicSounds

adding to your list

ReaEQ
- Add ability to automate master gain

ReaXComp
- Group band controls

ReaGate
- Ratio or reduction amount

What do you mean by "Group band controls" for the XComp?
And also you can use the wet/dry mix knob as ratio for the gate!

EpicSounds · 01-08-2018, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Birdy

What do you mean by "Group band controls" for the XComp?
And also you can use the wet/dry mix knob as ratio for the gate!

meaning the threshold, ratio etc of each band move together. many other plugins do this.

I don't find wet/dry mix to work the same as other gates.

Birdy · 01-09-2018, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by EpicSounds

meaning the threshold, ratio etc of each band move together. many other plugins do this.

Interesting, what is that used for?

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Originally Posted by EpicSounds

I don't find wet/dry mix to work the same as other gates.

Why not? It just blends in the dry signal, which basically means less reduction.

EpicSounds · 01-09-2018, 03:32 PM

It just makes it way quicker to make adjustments. It even keeps the relative levels if they started out differently.

Here it is in an old version of Ozone.

Birdy · 01-10-2018, 03:55 AM

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Originally Posted by EpicSounds

It just makes it way quicker to make adjustments. It even keeps the relative levels if they started out differently.

Here it is in an old version of Ozone.

Cool.
A simple "group" checkbox would be nice I assume.

mucknog · 01-10-2018, 07:10 AM

ReaEQ -> Checkbox for each band to set to mid/side mode.

Casperfren · 01-10-2018, 08:47 AM

Unlink switch on the stereo rea compressor

Bouroki · 01-10-2018, 10:46 AM

More filter types for ReaEQ, similar for example to Toneboosters EQ or DDMF IIEQ Pro.

Fix reacomp's oversampling.

reapercurious · 01-20-2018, 06:25 AM

ReaDelay "Limit Output" checkbox

this one is really easy and (i hope) obvious

Birdy · 01-20-2018, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by reapercurious

ReaDelay "Limit Output" checkbox

this one is really easy and (i hope) obvious

What's that for?

dug dog · 01-20-2018, 02:45 PM

This might not be 100% accurate, but if you have lots of repeats with enough volume, the cumulative volume can build to scary high levels.

574X · 04-23-2018, 08:36 PM

It may assist in the adoption of ReaPlugs if the stock presets of their Reaper counterparts were included in the ReaPlugs pack.

I would rather have ReaEQ maintain it's excellent low cpu useage rather than bloat it with a m/s encoder and decoder and analog filter types with saturation, etc but maybe there's some wizardry that can make it happen.

Other plugins would be very appreciated in the ReaPlugs pack, especially RS5K, even in its current form. This is worth its own thread, but among the many RS5K improvements that have been wailed out in despair on these forums, a multi page interface like ReaEQ and ReaXComp (for each sample, rather than band) would breathe new life into RS5K and help it stand among other vst samplers in all hosts. That may be fairly simple to implement.

A wet/dry mix in ReaXComp would be excellent due to the importance of heavy parallel multiband compression presets.

It seems evident, by the date of the last update to ReaPlugs of over two years ago, that they are either not a priority, or they are intentionally provided as a previous version.

However, ReaPlugs represent Reaper to all other host users (among many other juicy and enticing reasons to regularly update ReaPlugs...)

DaveKeehl · 04-24-2018, 05:28 AM

It would be nice to be able to unlink the left and right channels in ReaComp, so that we could use it sort of like a Fairchild.

ashcat_lt · 04-24-2018, 09:58 AM

Fix ReaComp's Foldover Problem. Leave the old behavior as an option, but let's get it working correctly from here on out, please.

Add ReaExpand which works exactly like ReaComp except as a downward expander. ReaGate is not a reasonable substitute.

My thoughts on some of the posts above -

+1 to automating ReaEQ's master Gain!

I have never understood what people think to achieve with an M/S mode in ReaEQ. It processes both channels the same either way. Whether it's L/R or M/S the effect will be the same. Now, if you are talking about making those two channels independent - like with two curves - I certainly wouldn't mind, but it doesn't bother me that much to just add another instance and mess with the routing pins. You know the request won't end at 2 channels, though. We'll have the surround mixers in here any minute.

Kind of the same thing with the "unlinked" ReaComp. That actually does mean running the detector code twice. Since that really is the bulk of the processing in the thing, you'll end up with a significant increase in CPU. I mean, it doesn't use hardly anything as is, so double that probably won't kill anybody. At that point, though, why not just use two instances. Parameter Linking, save as FX Chain...

On ReaDelay, a real ping-pong would be nice. A way to run taps in series with each other would do that and a lot more. Limit output would be nice, but even better would be an optional compressor/limiter in the feedback loop so that new layers push old layers down and it doesn't actually escalate that far to begin with.

Javier Robledo · 04-27-2018, 01:00 AM

Remember this about ReaEq:

https://forum.cockos.com/showpost.ph...99&postcount=1

574X · 04-27-2018, 03:44 PM

Equalizing only the sides has many benefits including filtering out low frequencies to avoid unwanted phase cancellation. I've also made plugins which make use of a basic rbj filter to sum frequencies to mono, which often is more pleasing.

Another important module for ReaXcomp is input gain, which would allow it to more easily be used in place of OTT (it is one of the very few freely available alternatives).

I also forgot to directly request that ReaPitch ReaTune and ReaVerb be added to the pack. They are excellent and would be my first choice in many situations when using other DAWs.