Script: Auto Solo Tracks of Selected Items

[heda]

Today's script. Two actions: one toggles solo of the tracks that have items selected. The other one runs in the background, (with REAPER 5 toggle action support, see the button toolbar) and automatically sets solo to the tracks of selected items. For this one I still don't know if selecting new items should add to the selection of soloed tracks as it is now, or if it should just solo those new selected ones.

see it in action


Download:
Download and install it from HeDaScripts Manager

[X-Raym]

This is powerful. Really.
You have nice ideas

[heda]

I'm loving this one already. One could say you can just press and drag on the solo buttons in the TCP. It's not as simple. I like to have this option too. You understand

I'm trying to optimize CPU use a bit for the second version that runs constantly.

[Shan]

Originally Posted by heda;1485004Solo tracks of selected items: [b

https://stash.reaper.fm/23355/HeDa_So...ed%20Items.eel[/b]

Nice work on these. I assigned the above to a button in my main tool bar. When I click on it to toggle it off, I get this message:



Any ideas?

Shane

[Shan]

Ignore my above query, as I just saw your other post on this topic here.

Shane

[heda]

Originally Posted by Shan

Nice work on these. I assigned the above to a button in my main tool bar. When I click on it to toggle it off, I get this message:
Any ideas?

Shane

Thanks Shan!
Click "Yes" and it will finish the script toggling it off so it won't be active until you start it again.
I'm asking here http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=155991
about the possibility to not display that message. I don't know how to do it. Maybe there is a way.
edit:I've just seen your second post

[Shan]

Perhaps this issue should be reported in the R5 Bug Reports thread.

Shane

[heda]

Originally Posted by Shan

Perhaps this issue should be reported in the R5 Bug Reports thread.

Shane

I prefer to ask before reporting a bug, because maybe there is a way and I don't know it. If not, bug will be reported. Since this toggling capability is new to R5 it may be a bug.

[heda]

I've studied some basic Lua today...

my first Lua script is a translation of this toggle solo script.

Download: https://stash.reaper.fm/23361/HeDa_To...ed%20Items.lua

[Shan]

Originally Posted by heda

I've studied some basic Lua today...

my first Lua script is a translation of this toggle solo script.

Download: https://stash.reaper.fm/23361/HeDa_To...ed%20Items.lua

It's working good on my end. I'm getting fond of Lua myself. This was my first toggle attempt using Lua. Thankfully spk77 chimed in and gave me a hand.

Shane

[musicbynumbers]

cool

Be great to have a version of this that can work with the action "item properties: Solo" which actually solos the items on an item level rather than a track

It can break a little sometime as it actually mutes all other items whilst it's active but that's why something like what you have here might work better as it might manage it better if it auto solos based on what's currently selected.

No worries if it's a nightmare!

[heda]

Originally Posted by musicbynumbers

cool

Be great to have a version of this that can work with the action "item properties: Solo" which actually solos the items on an item level rather than a track

It can break a little sometime as it actually mutes all other items whilst it's active but that's why something like what you have here might work better as it might manage it better if it auto solos based on what's currently selected.

No worries if it's a nightmare!

There is no solo property for items.. so that action mutes all other items as you say. And I don't know how it remembers if you had muted items already to restore only the ones that were not muted... but it's dangerous.. heh... yes It's not the first time I have messed up all the project using the item properties: solo action. So, this auto solo tracks of selected items is what I needed, since soloing is usually temporary to listen to something and then unsolo. Muting is more permanent because you can set something to be muted forever.

The automatic version is quite quick to use. It has two modes.
Add_to_Selection = 1 keeps previously soloed tracks unchanged until no item is selected.
Add_to_Selection = 0 only solo what is selected
You can change that inside the script file.

[heda]

Originally Posted by Shan

It's working good on my end. I'm getting fond of Lua myself. This was my first toggle attempt using Lua. Thankfully spk77 chimed in and gave me a hand.

Shane

My first experience in Lua has been good. I like it. The only thing that I did wrong at first was that the arrays start at 1 instead of 0.
I also like EEL but there are so many sad faces in the code... hehe :P

[musicbynumbers]

Originally Posted by heda

There is no solo property for items.. so that action mutes all other items as you say. And I don't know how it remembers if you had muted items already to restore only the ones that were not muted... but it's dangerous.. heh... yes It's not the first time I have messed up all the project using the item properties: solo action. So, this auto solo tracks of selected items is what I needed, since soloing is usually temporary to listen to something and then unsolo. Muting is more permanent because you can set something to be muted forever.

The automatic version is quite quick to use. It has two modes.
Add_to_Selection = 1 keeps previously soloed tracks unchanged until no item is selected.
Add_to_Selection = 0 only solo what is selected
You can change that inside the script file.

Nice! no worries on the solo item one I wish the devs would finish it fully at some point so it doesn't go wrong when you don't straight away un solo item.

[heda]

* v0.5 (2017-01-30)
# Undo fix

* v0.4 (2017-01-27)
+ Solo tracks on initializing script

* v0.3 (2017-01-25)
+ Unsolo All tracks when exiting script

some updates have been published
thanks to @Crazy Maurice feedback

[Crazy Maurice]

Originally Posted by heda

some updates have been published
thanks to @Crazy Maurice feedback

Hey! I've got another small suggestion for your script

-Solo track if selected item is dragged or copied to a non-soloed or new track.

(Currently stays unsoloed until unclicked and reselected)

Cheers
Harry

[heda]

* v0.6 (2017-02-06)
# solo tracks when moving or copying items

Good suggestion. Updated.
Let me know if it works. Thanks

[Crazy Maurice]

Originally Posted by heda

Good suggestion. Updated.
Let me know if it works. Thanks

Works perfectly! Thanks

[Crazy Maurice]

Hey heda,

Got another suggestion!

- Unsolo track if only selected item(s) are deleted

Eg. at the moment, if the soloed items are deleted, requires re-clicking another item to listen.
I guess to think of deleting item as deselecting it.

What you reckon?

Cheers,
Harry

[heda]

* v0.7 (2017-02-07)
# update solo tracks when deleting items
# update solo tracks when cut and paste items

hehe yes.
we are approaching final version
updated with trigger for delete items, and also I added Cut and paste items.

[Crazy Maurice]

Originally Posted by heda

hehe yes.
we are approaching final version
updated with trigger for delete items, and also I added Cut and paste items.

Woo!

Got another:

-Activate when item dragged in from finder(mac)

Haven't tried on PC yet but currently doesn't solo the track after a new item has been dragged onto a new track from finder.

Harry

[heda]

Here it says "Insert Media Items" when I drag a file from explorer into REAPER (windows)

I can add that "Activate when item dragged in from finder(mac)"
I don't have mac, are you sure the string is exactly like that? or without the (mac), caps included.

[Crazy Maurice]

I guess it would be Insert Media Items, I was just writing in general terms as I was seeing the behaviour.

Hope that helps!

Edit:
Just tested using the menu Insert>Media File onto a track that's not yet soloed, and it stays unsoloed so that would be the command I guess

[heda]

* v0.8 (2017-02-08)
# update solo tracks when Insert Media Items

ah yes. Updated.
I was referring to the action name that is shown in the undo history. Dragging from finder or explorer, or media explorer, or Insert Media from the menu, all create the "Insert Media Items" undo entry. So it will be fine now.

[Crazy Maurice]

Originally Posted by heda

ah yes. Updated.
I was referring to the action name that is shown in the undo history. Dragging from finder or explorer, or media explorer, or Insert Media from the menu, all create the "Insert Media Items" undo entry. So it will be fine now.

Hi again! I've found another instance where it doesn't solo the track -

Action: Select and move to item in previous/next tracks

Cheers
Harry

[heda]

thanks Harry
updated!

* v0.9 (2017-02-28)
# update when "Select Item In Next/Previous track"

[tusitala]

Originally Posted by heda

Today's script. Two actions: one toggles solo of the tracks that have items selected. The other one runs in the background, (with REAPER 5 toggle action support, see the button toolbar) and automatically sets solo to the tracks of selected items. For this one I still don't know if selecting new items should add to the selection of soloed tracks as it is now, or if it should just solo those new selected ones.

see it in action


Download:
Download and install it from HeDaScripts Manager

Hi!
Do you think you could modify your script so that when the focus is on the midi editor, adding a track from the track list on the right, adds this track to the "soloed" tracks we are listening to?

it would be awesome! as it is now i have to close and rerun the script to listen to the added selection.


in any case, thanks!!!! :-)
-t

[Robert Randolph]

I'm currently working in a project where I often need to solo tracksthat may not have selectable items on screen (scroll view during playback off).

So it would be valuable if there was a mode, or another script identical to this that worked based off track selection instead of item selection.

[heda]

Originally Posted by Robert Randolph

I'm currently working in a project where I often need to solo tracksthat may not have selectable items on screen (continuous scrolling off).

So it would be valuable if there was a mode, or another script identical to this that worked based off track selection instead of item selection.

Why would you need to solo these tracks? I don't understand the purpose of it. Would these tracks be soloed when you solo other tracks by selecting items with the script? or always?
Maybe with an example I could understand it better.

[Robert Randolph]

Originally Posted by heda

Why would you need to solo these tracks? I don't understand the purpose of it. Would these tracks be soloed when you solo other tracks by selecting items with the script? or always?
Maybe with an example I could understand it better.

3 things:

1. I have often 'Automatically scroll view during playback' off. So often during playback there's a track playing with no visible items to click since the item is off the page.
2. Soloing folders. My folders have no items in them! There's simply nothing to click to quickly solo a folder.
3. Soloing auxes. No items on my aux tracks either.

The auto-solo script is great except it isn't very useful in scenarios like there where there's a track playing audio, but there's no item to click.

I have tried simply drawing in blank items, but that makes the project look rather cluttered and confusing at times.

I did explain it a bit poorly in my first post, sorry about that.

[heda]

Originally Posted by Robert Randolph

3 things:

1. I have often 'Automatically scroll view during playback' off. So often during playback there's a track playing with no visible items to click since the item is off the page.
2. Soloing folders. My folders have no items in them! There's simply nothing to click to quickly solo a folder.
3. Soloing auxes. No items on my aux tracks either.

The auto-solo script is great except it isn't very useful in scenarios like there where there's a track playing audio, but there's no item to click.

I have tried simply drawing in blank items, but that makes the project look rather cluttered and confusing at times.

I did explain it a bit poorly in my first post, sorry about that.

Why can't you use the normal solo buttons on these tracks?
Folders and busses are automatically soloed too if you solo in place their children or tracks with the sends. Or you can use the solo defeat function. Or you could explore Track grouping solo states of tracks.
So I still don't understand. In any case. this script is for soloing from items selection. So what you need would be another new script.

[Robert Randolph]

Originally Posted by heda

Why can't you use the normal solo buttons on these tracks?

Often I'm not switching tracks with a mouse. Exclusive solo isn't available everywhere (controller and track manager in my case) that track selection is possible.

Also it's bothersome to have to click the solo button. Simply clicking the track (in the arranger) is much easier.

Anyway, you're right. This should have been a request for a new script. I was thinking that it could be a useful addition to this script, but I can understand that's not the case.

[tusitala]

hi Heda!

Do you think you could modify your script so that when the focus is on the midi editor, adding a track from the track list on the right, adds this track to the "soloed" tracks we are listening to?

it would be awesome! as it is now i have to close and rerun the script to listen to the added selection.


in any case, thanks!!!! :-)
-t

[hopi]

this script seems to work fine...

maybe this thought already exists, if so please point me to it

to make this script work, we need to add some kind of suffix to the track name... right?

OK so what about another script that would offer a field where we could type in something like Regions for Vocals or whatever and
it would add that suffix to all selected tracks...

I think you get the concept, eh?

[euga]

toggle action works, auto solo doesn't


am i missing something?

EDIT: just tried with a portable install and it works fine, so i have some sort of conflict between scripts i think, but what could be?

[heda]

Originally Posted by euga

EDIT: just tried with a portable install and it works fine, so i have some sort of conflict between scripts i think, but what could be?

check the REAPER preferences > General > Undo settings > Include selection

[euga]

Originally Posted by heda

check the REAPER preferences > General > Undo settings > Include selection

Thanks Heda! Now it works but marquee selection still doesn't, any ideas?

[heda]

mmmm you are right... Marquee item selection used to work...
It seems that in previous versions of REAPER.. the command was "Marquee Item Selection" and not in REAPER 5.50 it is "Marquee item selection", so it is not detected now.. I'll make it case insensitive. Thanks!

[heda]

fixed... even better.. now you can customize all the actions that trigger the toggle solo by copying the AutoSolo_actions.cfg to "Solo Tracks of Selected Items settings" folder and editing it.

* v1.0rc1 (2017-09-30)
# make action triggers case insensitive. (which also makes it REAPER 5.50 compatible)
+ configurable undo trigger entries by editing AutoSolo_actions.cfg. (Copy AutoSolo_actions.cfg to "Solo Tracks of Selected Items settings" folder to edit it)

[euga]

wonderful! thanks again!