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Old 10-21-2019, 10:17 AM   #1
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Default can someone confirm custom action limit?

https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=226256

in the linked thread i describe a problem i've recently had. wondering if it could be linux related so thought i'd ask for confirmation here.

essentially, i couldn't save a custom action that got too big. breaking it into smaller parts and combining the parts into a new action solved the issue but requires having three actions instead of one.

the limit i found was at around 114 actions. in my case, ten of the sub-actions were themselves custom actions, each containing 9 actions. thus, i'm counting the ten instances 90 actions.

anyway, does anyone else get this behavior? i'm on kubuntu with kx repositories and using reaper64 v5.984

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Old 10-21-2019, 10:42 AM   #2
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The most actions I've ever chained together was to create an "Undo recording, Rewind to last start position, and then Punch back into recording" function, which I have assigned to a button my my IR remote so I can use it while tracking guitar, bass, keyboards, or across the room on drums.

What the heck would have 114 back to back processes even do?
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Old 10-21-2019, 11:51 AM   #3
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the action takes a, roughly, 35sec piece of roomtone and divides it into 16 predetermined lengths, renaming each according to its length. i have a client with very specific requirements for pause lengths in their dialog files. i use this at the beginning of projects for dialog editing. it gives me all of the length options i need for filling breaths, adjusting delivery timing, and such. setting the time selection and splitting, not to mention the renaming, of each length takes quite a few actions. as an example, if each split/rename required 10 actions, that would be 160 actions.

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Old 10-21-2019, 12:01 PM   #4
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Wow! Sounds very tedious, even with the help of mega-actions. Only once can I remember a client with weird needs like that, which was a dialog only hour long recording about a dialysis machine, which I had to edit from one machine to another using 1/4" tape.
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Old 06-08-2020, 08:22 AM   #5
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No, it's not a Linux issue, this happens on Windows as well

UPD:

There's now script in ReaPack
PHP Code:
BuyOne_Check length of custom action(s).lua 

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