Action to disable (and not toggle) multichannel metering?

[puddi]

I know there's the action Track: Toggle full multichannel metering but does anyone have one that only disables it? The toggle action is kind of useless for me given that on some tracks it might be enabled and vice versa, so I can't just select all tracks and disable it.

I have no use for multichannel metering and wish that a flexible DAW like Reaper would allow me to disable it by default for new tracks. Oh well, maybe one of you smart guys have a script for this?

Thanks!

[nofish]

I can't help but I agree.
Seems surprising that there's no action / option for turning it off, I also don't need it (most of the time) and get slightly annoyed having to turn it off per track when doing sidechaining.

edit:
Seems at least turning it off for all current tracks could be scripted. No API for multichannel metering (if I didn't miss) but I think it could be done via track chunk ('VU ...' line).

edit2:
Added actions to en-/disable multichannel metering for next SWS version.

[Pinknoise]

Has this action been added ? Can't find it.

[nofish]

Next SWS version (where this is added) is not out yet, unfortunately.

[Edgemeal]

Originally Posted by nofish

Next SWS version (where this is added) is not out yet, unfortunately.

I just tried the new 'SWS/NF: multichannel metering actions' in SWS v2.10.0 pre-release, wasn't expecting them to be so slow..

Select all tracks, enable multichannel metering, run action to disable,
SWS: 3.95 seconds.
Script: 0.386 seconds.

128 tracks - multi-chan.RPP
https://stash.reaper.fm/35344/128%20...multi-chan.RPP

testing on REAPER 5.965/ Win7 / x64

[nofish]

Wow, that's surprising indeed.
SWS actions also use chunk parsing as your script as there's no native API but I woudn't have expected to be this slow.
I'll look into it, thanks.

edit:
I see in your script you use

reaper.Main_OnCommand(41726, 0) -- Track: Toggle full multichannel metering

I do chunk patching instead, maybe this makes a difference.

edit2:
Actually no need for overlapping functionality anyway I think. For anything that's scriptable (as in this case) I think scripts (in ReaPack) are preferred anyway to not bloat SWS, so I'd think about removing these actions for next SWS version. I think the speed improvement in SWS (if any) would be minimal in this case, as it basically does the same thing as your script.
Would you consider putting it in ReaPack?

[Edgemeal]

Originally Posted by nofish

Seems at least turning it off for all current tracks could be scripted. No API for multichannel metering (if I didn't miss) but I think it could be done via track chunk ('VU ...' li).

edit2:
Added actions to en-/disable multichannel metering for next SWS version.

Great! Any word when new SWS will be released?

I came up with this a few weeks ago, gets pretty slow with say 100 tracks, a lot fx, midi, etc. But for my simple/small project usage it does the job for now.

-- Disable multichannel metering on selected tracks
-- Edgemeal -- Dec 15, 2018
-- If you have ~128 tracks with a lot of fx, midi data,
-- it may take up to one second to run! (i7-3770 @ 4ghz)

local tracks = reaper.CountSelectedTracks()
if tracks == 0 then return end

--init_time = reaper.time_precise() -- For benchmarking code.

reaper.PreventUIRefresh(1)

-- get selected tracks
trk={}
for i = 0, tracks-1 do
  trk[i+1] = reaper.GetSelectedTrack(0, i)
end

reaper.Main_OnCommand(40297, 0)  -- Track: Unselect all tracks

-- disable multichannel for selected tracks
for i = 1, #trk do 
  local ret, str = reaper.GetTrackStateChunk(trk[i],"",false) 
  for line in str:gmatch('[^\r\n]+') do
    if line == 'VU 2' then -- multichannel metering is on.
      reaper.SetTrackSelected(trk[i], true)
      reaper.Main_OnCommand(41726, 0) -- Track: Toggle full multichannel metering
      reaper.SetTrackSelected(trk[i], false)
      break 
    elseif line:find("TRACKHEIGHT ") then -- went past VU line, skip to next track.
      break 
    end
  end
end

-- restore selected tracks
for i = 1, #trk do  
  reaper.SetTrackSelected(trk[i], true)
end

reaper.PreventUIRefresh(-1)

-- >>> For benchmarking code,...
-- duration = reaper.time_precise() - init_time
-- reaper.ShowConsoleMsg(tostring(duration) .. "\n")
-- <<<

[Pinknoise]

Well that's a good start hopefully we will get an action that auto disable this by default. Edgemeal saving my ass again.