Buss Driver - Bulk add/remove track routing GUI tool

[mykrobinson]

Got that video out today!


https://youtu.be/yxzDPoQTwJ0



Wonder why I don't have the buss logo on mine 🤔

[MonkeyBars]

Originally Posted by mykrobinson

Got that video out today!

Wonder why I don't have the buss logo on mine 🤔

Awesome video, Myk! I really dug how you related Buss Driver to the native mouse modifiers, and of course you're right that BD doesn't offer master/parent send toggle yet. (Still figuring out how that would work...)

Meanwhile, thanks for the bug report – logo not appearing on Windows. That might be an rtk thing, not sure...

[mykrobinson]

Originally Posted by MonkeyBars

Awesome video, Myk! I really dug how you related Buss Driver to the native mouse modifiers, and of course you're right that BD doesn't offer master/parent send toggle yet. (Still figuring out how that would work...)

Meanwhile, thanks for the bug report – logo not appearing on Windows. That might be an rtk thing, not sure...

Curious, since the tool already requires SWS Extension, can a button/checkbox be added to simply call the SWS action that toggles send to master/parent?

[MonkeyBars]

Originally Posted by mykrobinson

Curious, since the tool already requires SWS Extension, can a button/checkbox be added to simply call the SWS action that toggles send to master/parent?

Changing this setting programmatically is trivial; the challenging part is defining via the UX exactly which tracks' master/parent sends the user alters (and how).

[MonkeyBars]

Deployed v1.1.4

• Fixed missing logo in ReaPack metadata

Sync up and give this a shot, Myk...

[MonkeyBars]

Originally Posted by MRT

When creating sends, the selections [Pre-Fader (Post FX)/Pre FX] seem to be crossed, select one, and you get the other.

Hey, sorry I missed this bug report post! Bug confirmed, thanks for that.

[MonkeyBars]

Deployed v1.1.5

• Bug fixed: Routing Settings: Pre-Fader (Post FX)/Pre FX reversal

[Aaron Pace]

Hey this is so dope! I'm so glad you've made this possible

I still wish i could designate only certain types of tracks as targets for routing but that's mainly a gripe with reaper not this extension

This will mitigate a lot of Option + Shift Dragging of tracks for routing

[MonkeyBars]

Originally Posted by Ann-82

If i have for example 10 guitar channels to be send straight into a guitar buss, what i do right now is selecting the guitars, deactivate their master send (otherwise i get double signal flow) and open buss driver to route them into the guitar buss.

Ah that makes sense. A very common use case.

So you're asking for Master/Parent Send control on source tracks. Can anyone think of a situation in which the user will want to toggle the Master/Parent Send of the destination tracks?

But of course, i can use for this the SWS, the matrix or directly in the TCP.

Well to be fair, Buss Driver isn't really like my other script Superglue, which enables a lot of things that aren't possible natively in Reaper. BD is a way to do bulk actions conveniently with clear UX that are possible already just much slower.

[MonkeyBars]

Originally Posted by Aaron Pace

Hey this is so dope! I'm so glad you've made this possible

I still wish i could designate only certain types of tracks as targets for routing but that's mainly a gripe with reaper not this extension

Thanks for your kind words.

What "types of tracks" are you referring to? (After all Reaper doesn't have track types per se...)

[daxliniere]

Dude! This is fucking crazy cool!
Amazing work.

[daxliniere]

Could you an option to open the source track's Routing window once new sends have been created? It's REAPER action #40293.

[daxliniere]

Hmm.. better still, what about a recreation of the routing window using your nice GUI elements? That way it could just be a simple list of sends, displaying only the fader and mute buttons for each send?

Perhaps this is a different script that is (optionally) triggered by the Buss Driver script after creating a new send.

[daxliniere]

And could you support dragging/swipe action to enable multiple checkboxes by dragging the mouse? (Just like the way it works for track mute, solo, rec-arm buttons in TCP & MCP)

[MonkeyBars]

Originally Posted by daxliniere

Could you an option to open the source track's Routing window once new sends have been created? It's REAPER action #40293.

Custom Actions are your friend...

Originally Posted by daxliniere

And could you support dragging/swipe action to enable multiple checkboxes by dragging the mouse? (Just like the way it works for track mute, solo, rec-arm buttons in TCP & MCP)

Good idea .. hopefully it's possible

[daxliniere]

Originally Posted by MonkeyBars

Custom Actions are your friend...

Yes, I use them a lot, but I think that the routing window would be opened as soon as the Buss Driver GUI was opened, yeah?

[MonkeyBars]

Originally Posted by daxliniere

Yes, I use them a lot, but I think that the routing window would be opened as soon as the Buss Driver GUI was opened, yeah?

Ah right, good point. However, if you have more than one track selected, that might be of limited use.

... which is of course why you asked for a multi-track view of all routing settings above...

[daxliniere]

What I was actually thinking about was a replacement for the standard routing dialogbox, but with fewer controls+options.




As for multiple tracks at a time, well, there could be multiple columns (with a horizontal scrollbar as needed).

[daxliniere]

Hey, do you think you could tweak the logic for determining weather a track's font colour is black or white?

Many of these are unreadable as black text. I almost wonder if the default colour should be white.

[Broken Glass Audio]

Whoa! What an amazing Script. Thank you!!

[MonkeyBars]

Originally Posted by daxliniere

Many of these are unreadable as black text. I almost wonder if the default colour should be white.[/img]

Yes that was borrowed code – thanks for the screenshot, very helpful

Originally Posted by Broken Glass Audio

Whoa! What an amazing Script. Thank you!!

You're welcome!

[fero@reaper]

Would it be possible to add a feature to have alternate routing to selected tracks based on tracknumber.

For eg.
I selected tracks 10-20,
I want to send track 1 to these selected tracks but,
1/2 of track 1 should go to 1/2 of track 10
3/4 of track 1 should got to 1/2 of track 11
Similarly 5/6 of t1 --> 1/2 of t12
And so on..

Would that be possible? Or will that get too complicated?

[X-Raym]

Yes that was borrowed code – thanks for the screenshot, very helpful

Weird, I dont recall having that obvioisly wrong isDark results with my function, else I would have change it. I ude it in several scripts.

Let us know if you find better anyway^^

[MonkeyBars]

Originally Posted by X-Raym

Weird, I dont recall having that obvioisly wrong isDark results with my function, else I would have change it. I ude it in several scripts.

Let us know if you find better anyway^^

Will do. I found it didn't quite work right for me, so I made some adjustments to the color values in the code that obviously didn't work either, so...

[MonkeyBars]

Originally Posted by fero@reaper

Would it be possible to add a feature to have alternate routing to selected tracks based on tracknumber...

Would that be possible? Or will that get too complicated?

Probably best to run the script a couple times in that case.

I do plan to add the ability to send incrementing channels soon (for the common case of virtual instrument routing, etc.).

[fero@reaper]

[QUOTE=MonkeyBars

I do plan to add the ability to send incrementing channels soon (for the common case of virtual instrument routing, etc.).[/QUOTE]

Aah that's exactly my use case lol,
Will wait.

[PMan]

I'm loving this script, but I'm experiencing a problem.
If I select a track, I can create sends to multiple unselected tracks.
But if I select multiple tracks and try to create receives from an unselected track, the audio routing works, but it does not add the MIDI routing.

I'm running Reaper 6.66 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

[MonkeyBars]

Originally Posted by PMan

I'm loving this script, but I'm experiencing a problem.
If I select a track, I can create sends to multiple unselected tracks.
But if I select multiple tracks and try to create receives from an unselected track, the audio routing works, but it does not add the MIDI routing.

I'm running Reaper 6.66 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Bug not confirmed – MIDI receive adds work here.

Make sure your Routing Settings dialog has MIDI channel(s) selected. Also remember the "Save choices & settings on close" checkbox – if you deselected MIDI in a previous run, you won't create MIDI next time unless you change the MIDI dropdowns.

[MonkeyBars]

Deployed v1.1.6

Bugfixes:

• Track color calculation for contrast
• "Save choices & settings on close" now saves main action choices

[PMan]

I did some more testing...

I'm still having the issue. Here is some addtional info:

If I select multiple tracks and try to create receives from an unselected track - with the receive Audio set to none, I still get a receive 1/2 > 1/2 and MIDI > none.

Also, if I set 2 tracks to each have 4 channels, and I set receive to 3/4 > 3/4, I still end up with Audio 1/2 > 1/2, and MIDI > none.

It's acting like it doesn't see the receive settings, and it's just using the default settings...

Is there anything I can do to help troubleshoot?

[MonkeyBars]

Originally Posted by PMan

If I select multiple tracks and try to create receives from an unselected track - with the receive Audio set to none, I still get a receive 1/2 > 1/2 and MIDI > none.

Confirmed I am not getting correct routing settings on receive creation either. Will definitely look into that. Thanks for spelling it out for me in your bug report.

[PMan]

You're most welcome...

And thank you for this *amazing* script!

[MonkeyBars]

Deployed v1.1.7

Bugfixes:

• Receive routing settings not getting picked up
• User options were getting saved in undo history (master track P_EXT) before, now outside (Project ExtState)

[WarrenG]

Originally Posted by MonkeyBars

Deployed v1.1.7

Bugfixes:

• Receive routing settings not getting picked up
• User options were getting saved in undo history (master track P_EXT) before, now outside (Project ExtState)

Sorry to have to post this but this error came up after the update.
Not quite sure what it means.

...h add or remove sends or receives on selected tracks.lua:36: module 'mb-dev-functions' not found:
no field package.preload['mb-dev-functions']
no file 'C:\Program Files\REAPER (x64)\lua\mb-dev-functions.lua'
no file 'C:\Program Files\REAPER (x64)\lua\mb-dev-functions\init.lua'
no file 'C:\Program Files\REAPER (x64)\mb-dev-functions.lua'
no file 'C:\Program Files\REAPER (x64)\mb-dev-functions\init.lua'
no file 'C:\Program Files\REAPER (x64)\..\share\lua\5.3\mb-dev-functions.lua'
no file 'C:\Program Files\REAPER (x64)\..\share\lua\5.3\mb-dev-functions\init.lua'
no file '.\mb-dev-functions.lua'
no file '.\mb-dev-functions\init.lua'
no file 'C:\Users\Chris\AppData\Roaming\REAPER\Scripts\Mon keyBars-ReaScripts\Buss Driver\mb-dev-functions.lua'
no file 'C:\Program Files\REAPER (x64)\mb-dev-functions.dll'
no file 'C:\Program Files\REAPER (x64)\..\lib\lua\5.3\mb-dev-functions.dll'
no file 'C:\Program Files\REAPER (x64)\loadall.dll'
no file '.\mb-dev-functions.dll'

Warren

[MonkeyBars]

Oops sorry, sync again in a few minutes and see if that fixes it

[WarrenG]

Originally Posted by MonkeyBars

Oops sorry, sync again in a few minutes and see if that fixes it

That fixed it!
Thank You very much.
Awesome scripts!!!

Warren

[PMan]

It works perfectly.

Life is grand in Linux land!

[MonkeyBars]

Thanks for your support, all!

[chacka]

Thanx a ton for this cool tool and your awesome support, MonkeyBars!

Much appreciated.

[MonkeyBars]

Deployed v1.1.9

Bugfix: Reset All Options silently selects all target tracks