SWS Extension Updates

[nofish]

Yeah, SWS site seems down currently for some reason.
You could alternatively download the build cfillion made (which compared to the current official version additionally contains a rather important envelope manipulation fix):

https://forum.cockos.com/showthread....84#post2095284

(Doesn't come with a 'fancy' installer though as the official version, assuming you're on Windows, just drop the .dll in [Reaper resource path]/plugins, (re)start Reaper and it should get picked up.)

[analogexplosions]

I also came here to see what was up with SWS today. The website's been down since last night.

[Coachz]

You can get previous downloads here

https://web.archive.org/web/20180601...-extension.org

[Jorgen]

Thanks guys.

[vitalker]

Originally Posted by Jorgen

Thanks guys.

Site is available now.

[nofish]

Originally Posted by mawi

Why is the phase button not saved in a snapshot? That would be really useful.

Coming in next SWS version (probably).

Question:
There will be a separate tickbox (like for Custom: Volume, Pan etc.), but should it be included in 'Full Track Mix' also?

Pro: seems a no brainer imo that phase is a mix property
Con: would be kind of 'breaking change' (as it wasn't included in 'Full Track Mix' until now)

Whatcha think?

[EpicSounds]

Originally Posted by nofish

Coming in next SWS version (probably).

Question:
There will be a separate tickbox (like for Custom: Volume, Pan etc.), but should it be included in 'Full Track Mix' also?

Pro: seems a no brainer imo that phase is a mix property
Con: would be kind of 'breaking change' (as it wasn't included in 'Full Track Mix' until now)

Whatcha think?

no one is going to import polarity only. It's not a breaking change, it was always broken.

[Breeder]

Originally Posted by nofish

Coming in next SWS version (probably).

Question:
There will be a separate tickbox (like for Custom: Volume, Pan etc.), but should it be included in 'Full Track Mix' also?

Pro: seems a no brainer imo that phase is a mix property
Con: would be kind of 'breaking change' (as it wasn't included in 'Full Track Mix' until now)

Whatcha think?

IMHO, if it's not saved, it shouldn't be touched (the polarity control) - otherwise restore it. That appears to solve old project compatibility?

[joshisoz]

does SWS allow you to copy settings from one set of tracks and paste them onto another set of tracks? use case is copying mix settings from one session to another -

currently i do it by
* copying the tracks into the target session
* deleting the tracks from the original session
* moving the corresponding tracks in the target session onto the tracks from the original session
* deleting the target tracks from the original session

[EpicSounds]

Originally Posted by joshisoz

does SWS allow you to copy settings from one set of tracks and paste them onto another set of tracks?

That's sws snapshots

project 1, new snapshot, copy snapshot

project 2, paste snapshot, match source and destination tracks.

result is project 1 fader, pan, fx, routing merged into project 2. Tracks that don't exist in project 2 can be added from snapshot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNr1TCsqisk

[joshisoz]

Originally Posted by EpicSounds

That's sws snapshots

project 1, new snapshot, copy snapshot

project 2, paste snapshot, match source and destination tracks.

result is project 1 fader, pan, fx, routing merged into project 2. Tracks that don't exist in project 2 can be added from snapshot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNr1TCsqisk

that is the exact thing, but I just tried it and it's kinda a weird workflow? idk, each individual mapping needs individual attention. i just wish there was a "copy fx" option or something.

but yes, this DOES do what im looking for, i'll have to give it more of a shot and SEE IF IT WORKS IF I DO MY SESSIONS CLEANER or something

[_Stevie_]

Have you tried the SWS actions "copy selected tracks"?
There is a bunch of interesting stuff. Maybe it fits your needs.

There are also their respective paste actions.

[MrBeignets]

Hey there,
I'm trying to name my markers using reaconsole;
In Cycle actions I do "CONSOLE !SomeName"
It creates the marker with the ! in the name, is it intended? or is there a way to not have the ! in the name ?

Thanks

[TonE]

! in marker names make them action markers, so you need them if the markers should run any actions.

[nofish]

Inserting 'normal' (non action) markers via console is currently not supported afaik.

[MrBeignets]

Oh ok thanks ! i didn't caught the action thing in the first place

[GNDawg]

So guys, I'm creating a custom action, and I see that the actions "paste fx chain to selected track, slot x" are limited to slot 4, after that you would have to choose prompt for slot...
Is there a way to add this action with the other slots?

[Triode]

I believe you can specify by opening the sws ini in a text editor.
I can't remember which line to edit

[Reno.thestraws]

Originally Posted by GNDawg

So guys, I'm creating a custom action, and I see that the actions "paste fx chain to selected track, slot x" are limited to slot 4, after that you would have to choose prompt for slot...
Is there a way to add this action with the other slots?

find S&M.ini files in reaper resources path
open in any text editor
scroll donw to the very bottom of the file
change the number of actions as your heart content (max 255 per action)

[GNDawg]

I can't find s&m.ini, where is it located?
I went to Reaper resource path (Appdata/roaming/reaper) and windows doesn't find any file with that name... thank you in advance!

[Regisfofo]

I don't know if it is a good place for asking feature request...
Would it be possible to have some action we could trigger to insert a given pre-recorded Automation item at play cursor on an automation lane. Would be really powerfull for live playing to add some mouvement with the touch of a switch...
Thanks anyway for this great extension!

[GNDawg]

Oh, well, I think I've fucked up my Reaper, I tweaked in the REAPER.ini file, and now Reaper is kidna of ignoring the code it has in it and rewriting it, I think it may be missing a ending point code kinda thing, could you guys send me a screenshot of your reaper.ini so I can compare?
Fuck, what a mess.

[ivansc]

Worst case just reinstall or reinstall using a portable version if you want to keep your existing knackered one too

[GNDawg]

I've reinstalled it, but lost my configs and stuff, not a lot though. Thanks you!
And now I've found S&M.ini. Apparently, I was dumb enough to install SWS with Reaper opened, so it gave me an error that I skiped during installation, so it didn't create that file. Curious how the extension was working just fine.
Thanks everyone!

[EpicSounds]

Originally Posted by GNDawg

So guys, I'm creating a custom action, and I see that the actions "paste fx chain to selected track, slot x" are limited to slot 4, after that you would have to choose prompt for slot...
Is there a way to add this action with the other slots?

This inserting fx chain stuff is now native functions as well.

right-click an fx /fx-chain in the browser. 'add shortcut' click cancel. that fx chain is now in the action list.

[earhax]

Is there any way to edit the SWS/S&M Actions? I was trying to find one similar to the ation "SWS: Horizontal scroll to put edit cursor at 10%", except to put the cursor at 90% horizontally (or 10% from the right). There doesn't seem to be an action for this. So I was hoping to be able to look at the script for this similar SWS action and make one based on that by adjusting the relevant variable for the edit cursor position.

This isn't the only case of this. There have been other SWS/S&M actions that I wanted to make a copy of and modify them in some way. But so far, I haven't been able to figure out how to do so.

If there is some way to view and edit the script for these actions, please let me know. Thanks!

[X-Raym]

@earhax
You can script it without having to edit SWS with ReaScript and Lua for eg.

[nofish]

SWS is not script(s) but a Reaper extension plugin written in C++.
It's open source though so looking at the code and modifying it is possible.

https://github.com/reaper-oss/sws

Though as X-Raym said, for a lot of tasks writing scripts in e.g. Lua is probably more straightforward / easier.

[earhax]

Originally Posted by X-Raym

@earhax
You can script it without having to edit SWS with ReaScript and Lua for eg.

Yes, I'm sure I could script this functionality if I spent the time to figure out how. But that would definitely take more time than modifying an existing script.

[earhax]

Originally Posted by nofish

SWS is not script(s) but a Reaper extension plugin written in C++.
It's open source though so looking at the code and modifying it is possible.

https://github.com/reaper-oss/sws

Though as X-Raym said, for a lot of tasks writing scripts in e.g. Lua is probably more straightforward / easier.

Okay cool. I'll see if I can find what I need in the repository. I'm just trying to avoid reinventing the wheel whenever I can just to make a minor change to the way something works. But being able to see the source for these actions should help speed up that process. Thanks!

[earhax]

Well, I tried to figure it out by searching through the functions in the code. Found the one I was looking for, but am not skilled enough with c++ to figure this out.

I also looked through the ReaScript API to see what functions I might be able to use to scroll the main edit view so the edit cursor would be at a specific position from the left/right side of the view, and still came up empty.

Unfortunately, I don't have the time to figure this out right now. But if anyone else knows how to do this with ReaScript, please send me the necessary code if you can. Thanks!

[nofish]

You could try:
JS_Window_SetScrollPos() available in the js_ReaScriptAPI extension.

[juliansader]

Originally Posted by nofish

You could try:
JS_Window_SetScrollPos() available in the js_ReaScriptAPI extension.

I haven't tested it much, but this might work:

trackview = reaper.JS_Window_FindChildByID(reaper.GetMainHwnd(), 1000)
infoOK, scrollPos, pageSize, min, max, trackPos = reaper.JS_Window_GetScrollInfo(trackview, "HORZ")
cursorTime = reaper.GetCursorPositionEx(0) -- Always counted from start of project, ignores "Project start time"
zoom = reaper.GetHZoomLevel() -- returns pixels/second
cursorPixels = cursorTime*zoom
newScrollPos = math.floor(cursorPixels - pageSize*0.9)
reaper.JS_Window_SetScrollPos(trackview, "HORZ", newScrollPos)

[X-Raym]

@earhax
I think you'll only need

start_time, end_time = reaper.GetSet_ArrangeView2( proj, isSet, screen_x_start, screen_x_end )

and

reaper.SetEditCurPos( time, moveview, seekplay )

and a bit of math to mix these two functions :P

[earhax]

Originally Posted by X-Raym

@earhax
I think you'll only need

start_time, end_time = reaper.GetSet_ArrangeView2( proj, isSet, screen_x_start, screen_x_end )

and

reaper.SetEditCurPos( time, moveview, seekplay )

and a bit of math to mix these two functions :P

I tried to figure out how to do it this way since it seems pretty simple. But I got an error. Here is the script as I wrote it.

start_time, end_time = reaper.GetSet_ArrangeView2( proj, isSet, screen_x_start, screen_x_end )
time = 0.9 * end_time
reaper.SetEditCurPos( time, moveview, seekplay )

I'm not sure why this is bad. But the error is complaining about the argument #2 in the reaper.GetSet_ArrangeView2 function (boolean expected, got nil). And since I'm not sure how the script gets the arguments for these functions, or which ones (if any) are automatically pulled from REAPER/project data, I think I'm a long way from being able to make this work only having these two functions to start with.

[earhax]

Originally Posted by juliansader

I haven't tested it much, but this might work:

trackview = reaper.JS_Window_FindChildByID(reaper.GetMainHwnd(), 1000)
infoOK, scrollPos, pageSize, min, max, trackPos = reaper.JS_Window_GetScrollInfo(trackview, "HORZ")
cursorTime = reaper.GetCursorPositionEx(0) -- Always counted from start of project, ignores "Project start time"
zoom = reaper.GetHZoomLevel() -- returns pixels/second
cursorPixels = cursorTime*zoom
newScrollPos = math.floor(cursorPixels - pageSize*0.9)
reaper.JS_Window_SetScrollPos(trackview, "HORZ", newScrollPos)

Hooray! This works perfectly. Thank you!

I'd really love to learn how to figure stuff like this out on my own. But I guess I need to learn a bit more about js scripting. Is there a page similar to the ReaScript API function definitions for the js API? I'm trying to figure out what functions are available, what each of them do, and how to use them in a script.

Thanks again!

[nofish]

X-Raym's site also lists the JS_ API functions:
https://www.extremraym.com/cloud/reascript-doc/

Or you can run action: ReaScript: Open reaScript documentation (html)...
which also lists the API functions from extensions.

(The site you linked to isn't updated regularly I think.)

[EpicSounds]

anyone every run into an issue in the cycle action editor where you can't edit the text normally? Happened a few times to me but I keep forgetting to report it.

[maxdis]

Hi,

is there a way to make this action per-project (possibly adding some save slots)?

SWS: Save current track selection

As it now it seems that is global: if I save a track selection in PROJECT 1 and then I do the same with PROJECT 2, when I recall PROJECT 1 I can't restore the selection because it has been overwritten by the PROJECT 2 selection. I'm missing something or is it this way by design?

[sjs94704]

I just installed the Solaris_LCS_Blue_v2.5 theme and I was just wondering if you all could tell me how to use the proper TCP and MCP codes for this theme?