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Old 09-08-2014, 03:26 AM   #1
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Default Major automation bug: in write mode, un-armed lanes won't read

- set track to write mode
- record automation on some lanes
- un-arm these lanes to protect them, but leave them enabled so that they read.
- arm other lanes
- hit play: the previously recorded lanes won't read


Here is a gif showing this bug.
- first it shows that EQ automation is reading normally in read mode
- EQ automation lane is enabled and un-armed
- then I choose write mode, it shows EQ automation is not playing any more


https://stash.reaper.fm/21762/automat...RITE%20bug.gif


OSX.6.8 and Reaper 4.721

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Old 09-17-2014, 05:13 PM   #2
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Still not working in 4.73.

In write mode, when not armed, Volume and Pan envelopes are read correctly.
Though, FX envelopes such as ReaEQ or Reasurround parameters are not read.

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Old 09-17-2014, 05:20 PM   #3
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Confirmed for Reaper 4.73 x64.

If this is by design, it is inconsistent. In WRITE mode either all or none are read.

I'd actually expect none to be read that aren't armed, though I have yet to get in to a situation where I need plugin automation to be read while using WRITE mode. Disarming plugin parameters is just too much work, so I never do it. That all might change for when new developments are introduced in to automation facilities.
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Old 09-17-2014, 10:40 PM   #4
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I'd actually expect none to be read that aren't armed, though I have yet to get in to a situation where I need plugin automation to be read while using WRITE mode.
When you do automation on a parameter, you always need automation you have done before on other parameters to be replayed. It is a common behaviour on all software and hardware automation devices. If you don't want automation to be replayed, you disable the parameter.
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Old 09-18-2014, 05:07 AM   #5
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I agree with Airon. If a plugin parameter is in literal Write mode, it starts writing new automation at it's current setting as soon as the transport rolls so there's really nothing to read until you come out of write mode.

Touch is a different story, it will read until you touch it, and then it too will stop reading and start writing until you let it go. but in Write, it should just sit there and overwrite everything until you punch out, then start reading again.
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Old 09-18-2014, 06:22 AM   #6
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Maybe I misunderstand, but isn't -nicolas- talking of reading the automation envelopes of the other parameters when one parameter is being Written?

Say you have a synth with 2 parameters (A and B) automated. You want to rewrite the envelope for A from your MIDI controller, while hearing the effect of the automation of both A (essentially arriving from your keyboard controller AND B (from its existing automation envelope).
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Old 09-18-2014, 06:46 AM   #7
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Yeah, it's kinda weird. I can reproduce the behavior he talks about though.

It's ... different in Reaper because the "modes" (read, write, touch, etc) seems to be global to the track. I mean, it should be reading in either case but setting "Write" applies to the entire track unless you disable arming, which is kinda different from what I'm used to. In other cases every plugin (and the track itself, vol, pan, mute) can independently be in read, write, touch, etc, so it never comes up.

I mean, can you just go into ReaEQ below and put it in "Touch" or "Read" mode while ReaSurround is in "Write" at the same time or are those modes global to everything on the track?



Here's what I mean below where there are three plugins on a track. One plugin is in "Read", one is in "Touch", and the other plug is in "Write" and the track itself (Volume, Pan, Mute) isn't enabled for anything. But in Reaper that switching seems to always be global to the track, at the track level, so I may not be fully understanding it.



The modes above are "plugin specific", i.e. you can't have one parameter on a plugin in Touch while another parameter on that same plug is in Write, but the modes are independent for every device on the track, which is more of what I'm accustomed to.

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