MPL QuantizeTool - align anything to anything

[mpl]

QuantizeTool is a Lua script for REAPER.

It is designed to do some simple operations with internal objects. There are a lot of user cases, like:
- align MIDI notes to stretch markers
- implode items into edit cursor
- align envelope points to project markers
- etc...

Basic usage is:
1) Setup preset
2) select reference stuff
3) click "Get anchor points"
4) select stuff to align
5) click "Get targets"
6) tweak the knob

Requirements:

REAPER 5.95+
ReaPack 1.2+

Download: ReaPack.com (MPL`s repository is embedded into default ReaPack configuration)

Install:

• run ActionList > ReaPack: Browse packages...
• navigate and install (rightclick) QuantizeTool and Various_functions packages, then click 'Apply'
• run ActionList > ReaPack: Synchronize packages

Telegram channel for MPL scripts: http://t.me/mplscripts_chat

[xpander]

And big thanks to you also Michael, you've made a nice tool here.

[EpicSounds]

Looks really cool and an enormous amount of work.

couldn't see a download button on that page so I copied and pasted into a text file. That site gets really unresponsive when selecting text, kinda weird.



edit - quick test on OSX
script makes reaper really slow to scroll, zoom or do anything

[heda]

looking great!
good work!

I have a small suggestion for better code. It will make your life easier to update the texts:
For example to define the help1 variable. if you use this [===[ text ]===] you don't need to concatenate all the lines and insert \n at each line. example:

help1 = [===[
---------------- EN ----------------
1. What is it?
It`s LUA script for REAPER. I suppose you to have installed 
last version of REAPER and SWS/S&M extension (minimum REAPER
5.0 + SWS 2.8.0)
... etc
]===]

[analogexplosions]

This looks amazing. I can't wait to try this out.

[mpl]

Thanks, heda, really didn`t knew that.
SmajjL, thank you too, I will think about how to realize this better (maybe like timesearch on long videos on youtube).

[beingmf]

Originally Posted by SmajjL

Holy shit! mpl that is some work! thank you so much for sharing!

Thankfully someone typed this for me +1

[musicbynumbers]

Amazing tool! Absolutely top job and brilliant work!

can't wait to try it out and spread the word!

[X-Raym]

A big bravo to mpl : you totally nailed it
You now to have a swinging song on your soundcloud as a demo of this tool :P

[Stevie]

well done body
maybe some day it's gonna be a new vocalign for a Reaperppl, atleast i hope so

[G-Sun]

Tried 1.1

Stuttering after close.
Had a crash, but not sure it was the script.

No way to select only in time-selection? (That's a big one when working with stretch-markers)

[mpl]

1.1 could return error.
1.101 should works right.
Check options in options page for destination/reference stretch markers.

[MCCY]

Finally I donated! Feeling better now :-) !!!! Hey, 1000 thanks for your great work! Looking forward to all thats coming!

Martin

[mccrabney]

the script was failing to launch with error quoted below

...tor\AppData\Roaming\REAPER\Scripts\mpl_Quantize _Tool.lua:4: unexpected symbol near '<'

as described by mpl on page one, this is common for people who aren't used to saving scripts

Javi_Metal, you didn`t copypaste script right.
I see a lot of times people ask this question, but don`t understand where and how they copy the code to get this error. There is no "<" symbol in the fourth line ever, as you can see clicking on link in the first post. What I using - open link in first post, then rightclick in browser under text and press Save As or something like this and save it directly as mpl_Quantize_Tool.lua (of course without .txt extension)

[G-Sun]

Originally Posted by mpl

1.101 should works right.

Was using 1.102

Getting error on "Get selected only" / "Time selection"


Things are quickly getting buggy when reselecting stretch markers.

Managed to change settings without the above dialog,
but unabel to select stretch-markers in time-selection.

I'm not to good at reading you detailed manual. Just trying things

[mpl]

G-Sun , try 1.103. I rebuilt swing engine so it should works better. But if you still have bugs, let me know how to reproduce this bug.

[mccrabney]

this is so good. thank you so much for the osc/midi control. i've been wanting controller control over strength/swing in reaper forever.

may we have cc/osc control over custom grid as well please? ideally with adjustable floor/ceiling values, so i can use the entire fader to move between commonly used values?

[G-Sun]

Originally Posted by mpl

G-Sun , try 1.103. I rebuilt swing engine so it should works better. But if you still have bugs, let me know how to reproduce this bug.

Tested now. No bug.
Even managed to find the correct settings for stretch markers in time-selection only Wonderful

Some non-critical suggestions:
- When wanting to reference to project-grid (the most used option for me I guess), it's hard to choose it without going into custom grid. Could there be a radio-button or something?
(Project grid <> Custom grid)
- Remember last settings /store as default would indeed be handy
- I can see myself using 1-6 settings (options, what, where-to). It would be handy to have some shortcuts, or presets for that, as it's so many options. Simple <> advanced gui, or split up gui for different usage could also be smart.
- The help-file is fabulous. But as my left ind has taken a long vacation, the info for my right mind is just a pile of dots on the screen. I really have to concentrate to access it. Anything with more visual structure would help.

I'll test User Groove and Q to stretch markers in other item.

Thanks again!

[G-Sun]

Had some serious problems today,
tracked it down to this script.

Had freezes, dropouts and crash.

In matter of fact, I was not using it,
and Reaper was restarted.
Yet, I found the track/time that caused my problems, and it was the end of an quantized audio-item.

Trimmed project here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qyno8oqf3f..._Qbug.zip?dl=0

Win 8.1 64, Reaper 5.01 32

Users should not use this script in production-environment before this is fixed imo.

[nofish]

save as rgt groove (moved from display)

That means it's compatible with fingers Groove tool ?
edit:
Yes, missed on the previous page:

User Groove (import .rgt files for SWS Fingers Groove Tool)

Nice.

This tool is impressive btw., thank you.

[mpl]

G-Sun, Ok. Yes, this bug came from script.
Good news is I know where it comes from. Bad news it is really hard to guess what user will do with markers, from developer side. And thats why I wrote in manual, that you should quantize stretch markers VERY carefully. However, I`ll try to make stretch markers quantize engine more safety this week.

It would be very useful if you tell what you did to get stretch markers with negative coefficient. Gif is better.
Also just to say, I use my tool really often and yes, with big projects. Never got something like this.

nofish, didn`t tested much, but should be compatible.

[G-Sun]

Good

Originally Posted by mpl

G-Sun

It would be very useful if you tell what you did to get stretch markers with negative coefficient. Gif is better.
Also just to say, I use my tool really often and yes, with big projects. Never got something like this.

Don't know if I can make a gif now. But negative coefficient.. I believe I've seen something like that when using the script.

Thanks!

[mpl]

Stretch markers are something special in quantize context, because when you quantize them, they depend from each other (another objects just check how to move from ref.points and nothing else). And I didn't note this in the code (yet). That's why you have problems, when you do something extreme with markers.

[David Else]

Originally Posted by G-Sun

Had some serious problems today,
tracked it down to this script.

Had freezes, dropouts and crash.

In matter of fact, I was not using it,
and Reaper was restarted.
Yet, I found the track/time that caused my problems, and it was the end of an quantized audio-item.

Trimmed project here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qyno8oqf3f..._Qbug.zip?dl=0

Win 8.1 64, Reaper 5.01 32

Users should not use this script in production-environment before this is fixed imo.

I was wondering if this is still the case and if an update was imminent?

[mpl]

Can't reproduced that. Working on safety of stretch markers engine though. I've never get G-Sun speaking about. Update coming 1-2 weeks. Stretch markers WAS stable for me before 5.04pre1. After new rate stuff, maybe I'll should rebuild a lot in the code.

[mpl]

Updated, need REAPER 5.03+.

Changes:
Rightclick on user groove open REAPER\Grooves list
Check for REAPER compatibility on startup
GUI - options window deprecated and splitted to 3 menus on main page
GUI - options sliders dynamically shown when relevant
Option to store current groove to midi item (notes length = 120ppq)
Right click on gravity - type value in ms
Added stretch markers rate limit 0.1x < rate < 100x to prevent related bugs
Option to disable display (reduce CPU usage a lot in some situations)

[G-Sun]

Thank you!

New GUI-menus looking good

Testing:

Issue with not obeying grid. Set to 1/8, quantizing to 1/4
Restore stretch-markers to 1.0x, issue: Removes stretchmarkers and deletes peak preview (happened once)

Crash:

[sinkmusic]

Hello, MPL
Thank you very much for your nice script.
however, while i'm used to Reaper, i'm still a LUA newbie, and trying to run your script gives me an error message (which i don't understand) :

Am I doing something wrong ?
Thank you in advance,

[mpl]

sinkmusic, install last version of SWS.

1.4 build 2 - check for SWS Version on startup (not native solution though).

[sinkmusic]

Ah, thank you, MPL, it works !

[mpl]

Ok. Thanks to Nick Efremov for helping to get UserGroove works on OSX only if address of grooves directory is:

reaper.EnumerateFiles('/Volumes/Data/UserName/Library/Application Support/REAPER/Grooves', 1)

And reaper.GetExePath() returns '/Applications'.

Any thoughts how to get this folder relatively?

[David Else]

Fantastic, thanks for the graphics tablet update.

I am going to have a go at making a tutorial tonight. I have not yet sat down properly and used all the features, looking forward to getting deep inside this new tool!

[snooks]

Originally Posted by mpl

Ok. Thanks to Nick Efremov for helping to get UserGroove works on OSX only if address of grooves directory is:

reaper.EnumerateFiles('/Volumes/Data/UserName/Library/Application Support/REAPER/Grooves', 1)

And reaper.GetExePath() returns '/Applications'.

Any thoughts how to get this folder relatively?

You use reaper.GetResourcePath() to get the Application Support/REAPER directory. It works here on OSX and Windows (App Data... on Windows).

[G-Sun]

mpl: I see you've added link to wiki. Nice

Wiki oppdated
- images
- installation (yes, users might see the wiki before installing)
- various changes

Please let me know if you want to have full control yourself, or if you'd like it done another way.

I'd recommend keeping the main-page as clean/short as possible,
using another page for examples and tutorials.

[mpl]

Thank you very much! Q: how do you add gif? I get this though gif is available:

Error creating thumbnail: Invalid thumbnail parameters

http://wiki.cockos.com/wiki/index.php/File:Qt_swing.gif

[G-Sun]

Originally Posted by mpl

Thank you very much! Q: how do you add gif? I get this though gif is available:

http://wiki.cockos.com/wiki/index.php/File:Qt_swing.gif

It shouldn't matter.
When you use it on a page, everything should be ok I beleive.

[musicbynumbers]

Hi MPL

In the latest reaper 5.1pre2 I'm now getting this error upon trying to run the script.

"...ser\AppData\Roaming\REAPER\Scripts\mpl_Quantiz e_Tool.lua:2849: attempt to compare number with nil"

A fellow reaper user has also had this too except they are on a mac and I'm PC.

Any idea what it might be?

[mpl]

Latest version has only 2800 lines. Update to version 1.6 build 5 firstly (first post). Don`t forget to install latest SWS also.

[Modular]

Originally Posted by musicbynumbers

Hi MPL

In the latest reaper 5.1pre2 I'm now getting this error upon trying to run the script.

"...ser\AppData\Roaming\REAPER\Scripts\mpl_Quantiz e_Tool.lua:2849: attempt to compare number with nil"

A fellow reaper user has also had this too except they are on a mac and I'm PC.

Any idea what it might be?

Yep I'm getting it too

[Modular]

I'm getting this too