v4: SWS/S&M Extension

[spk77]

Thanks for the update! (Breeder, thanks for the BR_SetTakeSourceFromFile() -function )

[Shootkin]

Thank you for such a massive update! Especially for my lovely "Issue 606" lol.

[Triode]

Thank you for this!

[musicbynumbers]

Originally Posted by witti

Can anyone confirm this ?

When i split my items at cue markers
and i try to use some xenakios cue actions
e.g. Switch item contents to next cue
they do nothing.

I made a toolbar some time ago with these actions,
so i'm quite sure that they were working.

Confirmed, no longer works here either. This did use to work and was a quite handy for certain media situations.

[Reno.thestraws]

Just need a little explanation on this?

Cycle Actions now support all 3rd party extensions' actions

Cycle action in cycle action? with toggle report state?

If I set, let's say an action like

My action 1 :
no op no action
--- step
no op no action

with toggle set as real toggle state


can i now use this cycle in a IF Cycle?

example :
IF
My action 1
Record
END IF

IF NOT
My action 1
Render

[witti]

Originally Posted by musicbynumbers

Confirmed, no longer works here either. This did use to work and was a quite handy for certain media situations.

Thanks for the confirmation ! These actions were part of my loop mangler toolbar.
Would be cool if they get fixed soon.

Cheers !

[Reno.thestraws]

Originally Posted by musicbynumbers

Confirmed, no longer works here either. This did use to work and was a quite handy for certain media situations.

Same here, not working

[witti]

I think i found another bug.

The actions

Set auto crossfade off
Set auto crossfade on

are not working as expected.

'Set auto crossfade on' does nothing while
'Set auto crossfade off' is now a toggle action.

Discovered this while i was trying to run some older macros...

[daxliniere]

Hey Breeder,
The envelope point selection actions you added at my request a while ago are great, but I realised how a pair of them could be made better.

"Move edit cursor to next/previous envelope point and add to selection" would be more flexible if it was "Move edit cursor to next/previous envelope point and TOGGLE selection".

Currently, I have CTRL+left/right bound to 'move to point & select it'.
SHIFT+CTRL+left/right would be best bound to the new action I've proposed, allowing growing and shrinking of selection with ease.


Thanks for your consideration!
Dax.

[Breeder]

Hey man, kinda wasted right now, should check it tomorrow

[daxliniere]

haha, no worries. Have fun!

[Predator]

Could you tell where the Reaper/sws sample projects are located?

Many thanks

[musicbynumbers]

Originally Posted by Predator

Could you tell where the Reaper/sws sample projects are located?

Many thanks

Hi Predator,

Not sure what you mean by this? Is this referring to the sws manual? If so, perhaps the projects are on the "stash" in the link below somewhere

https://stash.reaper.fm/

That's just a guess though, I'm sure someone else will know what you mean if that's not it!

[musicbynumbers]

Anyone here know if there's an "sws way" to select only tracks that have midi inputs?

I'm trying to get it so I can turn on and off "auto arm record on selected track(s)" but I want it to avoid audio input tracks and only do midi ones

Was thinking reaconsole had this but couldn't see the command for it or an action. Is this reascript territory?

Thanks,

[spk77]

Originally Posted by musicbynumbers

Anyone here know if there's an "sws way" to select only tracks that have midi inputs?

I'm trying to get it so I can turn on and off "auto arm record on selected track(s)" but I want it to avoid audio input tracks and only do midi ones

Was thinking reaconsole had this but couldn't see the command for it or an action. Is this reascript territory?

Thanks,

This might work:

# Select tracks that have MIDI inputs

from reaper_python import *
from contextlib import contextmanager

@contextmanager
def undoable(message):
    """ Call "RPR_Undo_EndBlock()" automatically even when the script crashes. Very useful for testing and debugging.
        And using "with" statement keeps the actual script code clean and readable."""
    RPR_Undo_BeginBlock2(0)
    try:
        yield
    finally:
        RPR_Undo_EndBlock2(0,message,-1)

def selectTracksWithMidiInput():
    trackCount = RPR_CountTracks(0)
    if trackCount == 0:  # exit if 0 tracks in project
        return
    RPR_Main_OnCommand(40297, 0)    # unselect all tracks
    for i in range(trackCount):
        trackId = RPR_GetTrack(0, i)
        if RPR_GetMediaTrackInfo_Value(trackId, "I_RECINPUT") >= 4096:
            RPR_SetTrackSelected(trackId, True)

with undoable("Select tracks that have MIDI inputs"):
    selectTracksWithMidiInput()

[musicbynumbers]

That's awesome! thanks for taking the time out to do this! will try this when I get a chance! bookmarked!

[Argitoth]

[SWS Color]
custcolor1=255255255
custcolor2=477979
custcolor3=10000000
custcolor4=01010101
custcolor5=00101001
custcolor6=6014430
custcolor7=8387779
custcolor8=9890674
custcolor9=15391099
custcolor10=13286060
custcolor11=13160896
custcolor12=11252922
custcolor13=8894131
custcolor14=9350862
custcolor15=8751781
custcolor16=2631720
gradientStart=00000000
gradientEnd=99999999

I'd like to edit the colors via text but no idea what the format it. What the heck is this color format? It's not RGB, it's not Hex, it's not HSL...

[Tod]

Hi all, I posted this in another thread yesterday but got no comments, this is probably the best place to post this anyway.

There seems to be no Action that will close any item/take FX windows, floating or otherwise.

There is an action for closing all FX windows, floating or otherwise but they have no affect on item/take FX windows.

Am I missing something, Anybody know of something that might work?

There's no problem with Track FX windows and it's hard to believe that the Item/Take FX got overlooked.

[Tod]

Originally Posted by Tod

There's no problem with Track FX windows and it's hard to believe that the Item/Take FX got overlooked.

Just shamelessly bumping this, I could sure use a way to close Item FX right now.

[Argitoth]

Is there any way with reascript to access some of the SWS features? Such as the "find" tool? I'd like to create a script that triggers the "find" button with the input being the selected item's name, essentially it selects all items with the same name. Spk77 created a script to do just this, but it is very slow, while the S&M find tool is instantaneous.

[Breeder]

Originally Posted by Argitoth

Is there any way with reascript to access some of the SWS features? Such as the "find" tool? I'd like to create a script that triggers the "find" button with the input being the selected item's name, essentially it selects all items with the same name. Spk77 created a script to do just this, but it is very slow, while the S&M find tool is instantaneous.

If you're using windows, you could do it with pywin32. It lets you access win32 api through python. Neat stuff, but it could get messy due to defines that are internal to SWS. And you can't control some stuff since not everything is win32. For example, that dropdown box where you select type is VWnd from WDL, you can't touch it outside SWS

Here's a proof of concept (you need pywin32 installed):

from reaper_python import *
import win32api
import win32con
import win32gui

def IsSNMFind (hwnd, param):
	if win32gui.GetWindowText(hwnd) == "S&M - Find":
		param.append(hwnd)
	return True

def FindSNMFind ():
	hwnd = []
	mainHwnd = int(RPR_GetMainHwnd().replace("(HWND)", ""), 16)
	win32gui.EnumChildWindows(mainHwnd, IsSNMFind, hwnd)
	if len(hwnd) == 0:
		findHwnd = win32gui.FindWindowEx(0, 0, 0, "S&M - Find")
		if (findHwnd != 0):
			hwnd.append(findHwnd)
	if len(hwnd) != 0:
		return hwnd[0]
	else:
		return 0

if RPR_CountMediaItems(0) != 0:

	if RPR_GetToggleCommandState(RPR_NamedCommandLookup("_S&M_SHOWFIND")) == 0:
		RPR_Main_OnCommand(RPR_NamedCommandLookup("_S&M_SHOWFIND"),0)

	hwnd = FindSNMFind()
	editHwnd = win32gui.FindWindowEx(hwnd, 0, "Edit", "")
	if hwnd != 0 and editHwnd != 0:
		take = RPR_GetActiveTake(RPR_GetSelectedMediaItem(0, 0))
		name = RPR_GetSetMediaItemTakeInfo_String(take, "P_NAME", 0, 0)[3]
		win32gui.SetWindowText(editHwnd, name)
		win32gui.SendMessage(hwnd, win32con.WM_COMMAND, win32api.MAKELONG(1096, win32con.EN_CHANGE), 0)
		win32gui.SendMessage(hwnd, win32con.WM_COMMAND, 2001, 0)

Or you just go to http://code.google.com/p/sws-extension/issues/list and make a detailed request. In you case I presume you want a function that selects all items whose active take has xy string as it's name (or it's name contains that string)

[BenK-msx]

Hi,
I incorporated the midotocontrolpath plugin as my input for ( a 'dumb' fixed output )control surface so i can change the input channel etc - and is working great..

to add usefulness i've used the fabulous cycle action editor and resources system to play/loop midi notes to the controller to light up its lights, using 'play/loop media in selected tracks slot n' etc on one specific track.

my question simply is that does playing and looping a number of midi files concurrently using 'play media in selected tracks' put any noticable load on the system?

i could easily have a few files being played/looped for long periods of time (as indicator lights) so i am curious whether working on a complex projects/ live input /recording etc would at all be hindered by these 'backround' tasks?

seems ok so far in first tests, but don't want to set up a complex array of indicators to then find odd things happening!

none of this setup would be possible without jeffos's plugin and all the sws s&m extension tools and actions, so thanks once again, practically everything i wanted to achieve i could do!

i did discover one simple action that is 'missing' and that is
'select last track' e.g highest numbered track -

which would be handy when inserting template tracks into projects ensuring they are out of the way. had to do something repetitive with 'select next track'...
if i could script i guess all this would be easy huh.

any response appreciated.

[musicbynumbers]

Hi Tim and Jeffos, hope all is well!

Wanted to run these 2 quickly by you and to see if you think they would be useful.

firstly, an action to give the ability to select an item and then have an action that will select all other items with the same name (ignoring the "-01" suffix on the end etc). This could be quite powerful!

This got me thinking about an extension to this with regards to cue actions.

If we could have the ability to take either an item's name or a track's name and store it for use in a later action then we could have the find window incorporated more into cue actions (in the same way reaconsole is with inputting commands directly in cycle actions).

This would be for quickly finding and processing tracks and items based on names. Along with the label processor also having the ability to have it's commands written straight into it via cycle actions OR (and this is the cool bit) have a portion of what you input in either find or label processor be a variable of the name you "got" from running an action to take the name from the track or the label.

I hope that makes some sense and I think some of it is possible now (need to check) but the new bit would be the ability to get and store a name for use as a variable in either reaconsole, find or label processor.

Would be super cool!

EDIT: just did some research and realised that Label processor can be set in the cycle actions editor, cool! Wonder if find can...searching again!

[plamuk]

hey i keep getting a message that 2.4 beta 3 is available but i can't find it anywhere on the googlecode site. any suggestions?

[nofish]

^^^

Iirc I read recently (probably from Jeffos) that they have to look for a new hosting site for the SWS betas for some reason, don't know what's the current status of this though.

But someone from SWS team will probably show up here soon enough anyway.

[jimmey]

Unfortunately I cannot make cycle actions outside the Main section. Is there a special way to do this other than:

1. Open cycle action editor
2. Go to Section MIDI Editor
3. Create your cycle action
4. Apply it

[Breeder]

Originally Posted by nym

hey i keep getting a message that 2.4 beta 3 is available but i can't find it anywhere on the googlecode site. any suggestions?

It seems that one creeped in accidentally.
Yep, SWS is experiencing download issues due to google turning off Downloads feature in all existing projects.
Jeffos is working hard on solving it!

[plamuk]

due to google turning off Downloads feature in all existing projects.

wut...that's google for you...always changing stuff without being asked to
the new maps is a tragedy

[Anton9]

Is this version (sws-osx-v2.4.0.3.dmg.zip) which is posted in the stash osx only.., or does it also contain the win version?

[Jeffos]

Posting in rush mode...
v2.4.0 #3 is available here: http://www.standingwaterstudios.com/reaper
^^ quickly hacked/php'd a web template, more to come...

[airon]

Ooooh. Sexy new website.

The action to preview stuff under the mouse cursor looks nice. Cool.

[Bevosss]

SWS/BR: Focus arrange window

Great action! Works perfectly from the midi editor window, cheers!

[Joystick]

Cool new site, cool new stuff! Thanks!

[airon]

I just used the RMS normalization actions to great effect in a session.

I've already posted a feature request (EBU R128 Normalization), but perhaps this is now easier that the framework is in place, and all one would actually require is using the k-weighting filter and proper parameters to get EBU R128 normailzation, in addition to RMS normalization.

The MIT-licensed ANSI C library Libebur128 probably has all the functions you require.

I propose this to simply be a checkbox in the setup, accessed via the action SWS: Set RMS analysis/normalize options. Alternately, just create in EBU R128 versions of the normalize actions.

What do you think ?

In any case, thanks for the cool functions.

[heda]

Originally Posted by airon

I propose this to simply be a checkbox in the setup, accessed via the action SWS: Set RMS analysis/normalize options. Alternately, just create in EBU R128 versions of the normalize actions.

I agree with the checkbox in options. Normally if you are using EBU you may not want to use RMS anymore so no need to have two different actions.

[musicbynumbers]

Was just about to vote/comment on it when I realised I already had! Hope the guys can make this work at some point! need it more and more everyday now.

Originally Posted by airon

I just used the RMS normalization actions to great effect in a session.

I've already posted a feature request (EBU R128 Normalization), but perhaps this is now easier that the framework is in place, and all one would actually require is using the k-weighting filter and proper parameters to get EBU R128 normailzation, in addition to RMS normalization.

The MIT-licensed ANSI C library Libebur128 probably has all the functions you require.

I propose this to simply be a checkbox in the setup, accessed via the action SWS: Set RMS analysis/normalize options. Alternately, just create in EBU R128 versions of the normalize actions.

What do you think ?

In any case, thanks for the cool functions.

[Reno.thestraws]

Originally Posted by Jeffos

Posting in rush mode...
v2.4.0 #3 is available here: http://sws.mj-s.com
^^ temp url + quickly hacked, php'd and stripped down web template, more to come...

Issue 618: fixed cycle actions using toggle states from other cycle actions (starting with IF/IF NOT statements)

[swiiscompos]

Originally Posted by Bevosss

Great action! Works perfectly from the midi editor window, cheers!

How does it work? It doesn't seem to do anything... (or maybe it's because I'm using a beta version of Reaper?)

[Breeder]

Originally Posted by swiiscompos

How does it work? It doesn't seem to do anything... (or maybe it's because I'm using a beta version of Reaper?)

I don't know how Bevosss is using it but it's mostly intended for macros.

Here's one user's scenario which led to this action being implemented:
You're calling a toolbar by double clicking a track in TCP. After you do it, arrange loses focus so if you press Delete, track gets deleted, not selected items in the arrange. User explicitly wanted to have Delete work on items after calling the toolbar like that.

[swiiscompos]

Thank you, actually it works. Nice surprises in the last version of SWS!