v4: SWS/S&M Extension

[musicbynumbers]

thanks guys!!!

[airon]

Originally Posted by sws

Correct. I don't see any chance soon of making the clipboard work externally to Reaper in OSX without Cockos/WDL help. Instead I'll have to make export/import markerlist actions.


Track width? Not sure where/what that is.

Probably TCP width. It is part of the windows screensets now, so maybe it can be accessed.

[Mike Stop Continues]

Originally Posted by sws

S&M Resources:
The view now also manages project templates (i.e. new option in top left dropdown box)!

That's awesome!

Can we get these actions?
"Override settings from project template"
...for an easy way to change all of an album's track's sample rates and stuff.

"Append tracks from project template"
...to just add a project template's tracks to the current project

"Override tracks from project template" << real good!
...if a track has the same name as a name of a track in the template, replace that track's settings and fx

[Reflected]

Originally Posted by Reflected

Hopefully a quick fix (I've lost few mixes..)

"Track Width" doesn't count in Snapshots . (snapshots window)

Originally Posted by sws

Track width? Not sure where/what that is.

this (see image)

stereo width
http://img27.**************/img27/4418/widthq.png
[img]http://img27.**************/img27/4418/widthq.png[/img]

[sws]

Originally Posted by Reflected

...stereo width...

Ah, yes, of course. As far as I can tell that's not yet available from the API, I'll add it as soon as I can!

[hopi]

Tim... just checking if any progress on getting the action to append to start of selected track names... something like * or 'frozen'... or whatever...

I know you said you were looking into it and that is was not an easy one, ..so no push... just sometimes I miss new things in my confusion.

[airon]

Middle mouse button zoom is taking several seconds before executing the zoom.

Reaper x86. v4 beta 9, extension beta 28

-edit- may be local to my installation. Yesterday I zoomed around at normal speed. Will continue to attempt to reproduce.

[Susan G]

Originally Posted by pixeltarian

I love that I can format text in sws notes. however, If I leave one note and come back to it, it looses text size and color information if there is more than one in play. see video:

http://screencast.com/t/5MjXzI2MT...

Hi-

I'm on build 28, and I can't find that formatting menu. I'd really like to be able to increase the font size, but this is what I'm getting in the Notes/Help window:

http://home.comcast.net/~SMG_Music/swsnotes.swf

What am I missing, please?

Thanks-

-Susan

[Susan G]

Does anyone know how to bring up that styles menu? It's no doubt something simple I'm missing.

Thanks-

-Susan

[sws]

Originally Posted by Susan G

Does anyone know how to bring up that styles menu? It's no doubt something simple I'm missing.

Hey Susan,

That's a standard OSX feature for text boxes, it doesn't exist in Windows. Sorry!

[Susan G]

Originally Posted by sws

Hey Susan,

That's a standard OSX feature for text boxes, it doesn't exist in Windows. Sorry!

Ah, that explains it -- thanks!

-Susan

P.S. I wish the default in Windows could be a little larger, but if folks are largely happy with it as is, so be it!

[airon]

The Zoom works fine with Beta 10. I haven't been able to reproduce it in Beta 9 either. Must have been a system fluke. I hope I didn't send anyone on a pointless bug hunt.

[babag]

just been dealing with this in general discussion but was recommended to
post here. here's the link to that discussion:

http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=82190

basically, using w7 64bit, reaper v4 beta 10 64bit, and current sws 32bit
release, trying to save the current actions list has not been creating the
expected c:\reaperactionlist.txt file. tried as admin and basic user. i
chose the 32bit sws because there seemed like a lot of caveats regarding
the 64bit and a general urging toward the 32bit, even for 64bit system.

<edit>
more info. uninstalled 32bit sws and installed 64bit to see if that worked
any better. the install was funky. the screen that shows the install location
did not display the full path to the plugins folder like the 32bit install
did. just shows '\plugins.' i browsed to the correct path. when the install
finished, no extensions appeared in reaper. uninstalled 64bit sws and went
back to 32bit. extensions came back.
</edit>

thanks,
BabaG

[j.herran]

Could you please make an action that renames all items in a selected track with the name of that track ?

This would save much time. For example, when renaming items after glueing or rendering ,instead of doing it with every item one by one by clicking going to item prop.etc

Imagine you´ve got a track with some items you just glued several times, you would have sth like this "item 12 glued-glued-glued". The idea is just select that track run the action and all items are renamed with its name.

[ValeryOrloff]

Hey everyone,
This is great extension, greate diversity, greate opportunities for development workflow!

but I can't find usefull action for me - Duplicate with snap offset in piano roll, in other words, Single action for: copy selected notes and paste them after interval according to snap grid, is it exists that action ?

[musicbynumbers]

Originally Posted by j.herran

Could you please make an action that renames all items in a selected track with the name of that track ?

This would save much time. For example, when renaming items after glueing or rendering ,instead of doing it with every item one by one by clicking going to item prop.etc

Imagine you´ve got a track with some items you just glued several times, you would have sth like this "item 12 glued-glued-glued". The idea is just select that track run the action and all items are renamed with its name.

If I recall correctly I too would love this, tried it many times, we can do the opposite though but not the most useful way yet

[sws]

Originally Posted by j.herran

Could you please make an action that renames all items in a selected track with the name of that track ?

Try the existing "Auto rename selected takes" action, see if that meets your needs.

[j.herran]

Ok, that works well and it is better than doing it by default, but you still have to type in the name you want in the takes.

So you have to name the track first and then the takes (which has beeen nicelly simpilfied by you) but what I requested was a bit faster, just naming the track and then automatically running the action, all the takes cointained in the track at the same time are named as the track (without a menu pop up to type in names).

I´ve seen this kind of action working in logic, and I think its quite usefull and improves workflow a lot speccially when organizing everything for the arrangement.
(so much when you´ve got 15-20 tracks tor rename one by one)

[Evan]

regarding the timeline zoom (vertical mouse drag):

It is almost there for me. Drag up/down zooms, drag left/right pans the timeline. All good BUT...

1) panning left/right is not very accurate, it's very easy to move the mouse left/right without moving the timeline in equal distance, therefore dislocating the pointer from the original click point


2) when the 1st measure is visible on the left, zooming out (dragging-up) causes the mouse pointer to unlock from the timeline location it started the zoom function.

I don't know how everyone else feels, but I would prefer if the mouse position and the timeline position remained locked at all times during zoom.

i.e. if you start zooming on measure 3, the mouse pointer always remains at measure 3 no matter how far you zoom in or out.

This will require the zooming to stop after a certain level. But the user can always pan the timeline to increase the zoom range.

Anyone with me?

[Kundalinguist]

Originally Posted by j.herran

...
I´ve seen this kind of action working in logic ...

Digital Performer has it, too. Very useful, like gluing, but for names.

[sws]

Originally Posted by j.herran

Ok, that works well and it is better than doing it by default, but you still have to type in the name you want in the takes.

You don't have to type in the name, just use the "token" [trackname]. It will be remembered so you only have to do that once.


Evan, regarding the drag-zoom, I understand your concerns, but because it's a pretty serious hack I don't believe I can improve it much/at all. (And OSX works even less, sorry mac guys.)

[Evan]

Originally Posted by sws

Evan, regarding the drag-zoom, I understand your concerns, but because it's a pretty serious hack I don't believe I can improve it much/at all. (And OSX works even less, sorry mac guys.)

Thank you very much!

At least, by expressing my concern, perhaps the devs take notes for allowing or providing a better implementation in the future.

I appreciate your effort!

[airon]

Concerning the ZOOM feature, which I'm an absolute fan of, that may be a good FR for Cockos.

This could be a new method for any "drag" mouse modifier in the arrangement area, which includes track and item contexts. Wouldn't be as flexible though :\ .

[j.herran]

Ok, I modified a preset in the text editor as track name==[trackname] and linked the action to A button so now it works quick and propperly.

Just need to select the items to rename, press A, then enter and it´s done.

Your extensions makes workflow in Reaper improve so much! Thank you!

[Jeffos]

[Coachz]

can we do song lyrics with that really ? that would really be great

[nathanj]

Jeffos

The marker text button looks awesome. I have been transcribing alot of interviews in Final Cut and adding the text to the markers and outputting the text as excel files.

Is there a limit to the amount of text each marker can contain and would it be possible to output the marker text files as an excel sheet including information such as time, marker colour, etc?

I ask because I transcribe a lot of audio interviews as well and haven't found anything like the markers in FCP in any audio applications. This would be a giant help.

Thank you

[sws]

Posted beta v2.0.0 #29: (Thanks, Jeffos!)

Added "Cycle action editor" (main menu > extensions > cycle action editor):
+Unlimited number of cycle actions
+Unlimited number of commands per cycle action
+Import/export features
+Learn selected commands of the action list (Windows OS only)

Other cycle action updates:
+Performance improvments
+Consolidated undo points

S&M Notes/help:
+When the view is locked, the text is now displayed with a dynamic sized font (i.e. display à la "Big clock")
+Added marker names (in the top left dropdown box). They are edited/displayed according to edit/play cursor position (can be used for lyrics, etc..)
+Demo here

Issue 308: Fixed "Select/load project template" actions
Issue 317: Fixed Shorcircuit hang when set online with opened GUI (needs "BuggyPlugsSupport=1" in the S&M.ini file, full story here
Tweaks: little unicode fixes, better message boxes on OSX..

Added actions:
+SWS/S&M: Open Resources window (project templates)
+SWS/S&M: Clear project template slot...

[Kundalinguist]

Hey SWS. Your cycle actions demo link 404-ed on me.

[gwok]

Originally Posted by Jeffos

nice!

made my method using items and action a lot easier

http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=73161

tx

edit: on a side note - too bad Reaps still won't retain the font sizes

edit 2 - my bad - the font is rightly huge once the notes are locked -

[musicbynumbers]

Thanks Guys!

Some good stuff in here for me to test when I get time!

[Susan G]

The Cycle action editor & dynamic font sizes (plus the marker names addition) are great so far -- thanks so much!

-Susan

[BenK-msx]

awesomness from Jeffos & team again!

what is the 'rule' re marker actions and further text (numbers in particular) after the ID?

i found if there was a number in place after the ID
eg. !1016 i have 7 wives

stuff started happening using ID 7 at the marker in addition.

the way it happened was odd can't describe any better really at the moment.

good stuff though - SWS: making reaper better whilst the devs are busy with midi or the project bay. < HA! i jest. really.. please don't send malbots to my house.

[gwok]

if i have auto-icon enabled, anything that gets affected by it, if i change those track names, their icon goes away.

for example, say i have only one setting for auto-icon called drums. Nothing else just "drums" and an assigned icon. So I name a track drums, and the icon is set. Great, no prob. Though now if I rename that track to snare, the icon goes away - EVEN THOUGH their is no setting created for "snare" are "ANY"

so to me - it would be really useful if it kept it's icon. Even though the name has been changed, if their is no other specifier in auto-icon that the track now falls under, then it should jut stay as is? yes? tx

g

[Sumalc]

hello,
Reaper beta12 don't start with this new beta sws 2.0.0.29
worked fine with previous.

snow leopard 10.6.8

[Jeffos]

This will the last S&M contrib to SWS v2.0 (bug fixes only now).
BTW, thanks to all! Thanks for the help, detailed reports, documentation.. You're great!

There's an important thing I forgot in the #29 whatsnew, about cycle actions:
from this version, please do not tweak cycle actions by hand in the S&M.ini file anymore!, only use the Cycle action editor (your existing cycle actions are preserved, of course).

Originally Posted by Sumalc

hello,
Reaper beta12 don't start with this new beta sws 2.0.0.29
worked fine with previous.

DANG!!
More details? Have you a crash report (http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=36653)? an error message? well, what's happening exactly? just hangs?
One thing you can try for the moment is to quit REAPER, make a backup of your S&M.ini file (just in case.. to find it: main manu > options > show res. path in explorer/finder) and delete this file. Re-launch REAPER. If it fixes the issue, please can you send me the backup file ? Sinon, peux-tu aussi m'envoyer un zip de la conf complète (prefs > general > export configuration, tu coches tout!)

Originally Posted by Kundalinguist

Hey SWS. Your cycle actions demo link 404-ed on me.

my bad, should ok be later today..

Originally Posted by BenK-msx

i found if there was a number in place after the ID
eg. !1016 i have 7 wives

hey BenK! I'm very sorry but I think we've hit my english limits here: I don't understand a word, really! Can you re-phrase that?
(I mean.. I read 3 times and I'm just like "how the hell can he got 7 wives thx to SWS! especially in UK where the law clamps this number to 1 wife" )

Originally Posted by gwok

for example, say i have only one setting for auto-icon called drums. Nothing else just "drums" and an assigned icon. So I name a track drums, and the icon is set. Great, no prob. Though now if I rename that track to snare, the icon goes away - EVEN THOUGH their is no setting created for "snare" are "ANY"

hum.. if we do what you suggest, auto-icon won't work anymore (something can't be automatic AND manual at the same time). To achieve what you want, it goes the other way: an icon set "by hand" won't be replaced, even if there's an automatic rule matching it. So, set the icons you don't want to be replaced with REAPER's menu, the automatic ones in the Auto Color/Icon view.


[EDIT] I forgot nathanj!

Originally Posted by nathanj

Is there a limit to the amount of text each marker can contain and would it be possible to output the marker text files as an excel sheet including information such as time, marker colour, etc?

In REAPER, maker names are limited to 64 chars and multi-lines are not supported. The export you want is do-able but it's probably a job for the Marker list (which already has close export functions, btw). I'm on the other way with the Notes view (the next thing about that will probably be sub-title files -> REAPER). I'd say enter a FR in the SWS tracker..

[gwok]

Originally Posted by Jeffos

hum.. if we do what you suggest, auto-icon won't work anymore (something can't be automatic AND manual at the same time). To achieve what you want, it goes the other way: an icon set "by hand" won't be replaced, even if there's an automatic rule matching it. So, set the icons you don't want to be replaced with REAPER's menu, the automatic ones in the Auto Color/Icon view.

what about a retain option? If enabled, auto-assigned icons would change only if they meet other criteria specified. If something changes on the track, but the change DOESN'T match with any other existing auto-icon criteria then it would stay as is. just a thought anyway
g

[BenK-msx]

sorry Jeffos, i wasn't clear enough. I don't have 7 wives..

if i input e.g "!1016 i have 7 wives" as the text in a marker, i got action ID #7 activating as well as #1016.

i thought perhaps there was a special character that i could use that would tell action markers to ignore any further txt or something, so that descriptions don't execute actions. like ; in code world.

thanks!


EDIT: ha.. i just answered my own question - "like ; in code world." yes indeed placing ; after the ID eg.
"!1013 ; my room number is 22"

solves the problem. may want to look into it though.

[Reflected]

since version 4 beta 12

I get this message "The following effects were in the loaded chain but are not available." everything I load (drag n drop) a chain from the FX Chains window to an item/track.

the effects were actually availible and loaded very well, but I just keep getting this message all the time...

only me getting this?

[Subz]

Originally Posted by Reflected

since version 4 beta 12

I get this message "The following effects were in the loaded chain but are not available." everything I load (drag n drop) a chain from the FX Chains window to an item/track.

the effects were actually availible and loaded very well, but I just keep getting this message all the time...

only me getting this?

nope me also, its logged in the beta 12 thread but i never thought it could be sws related?

Subz