Old 09-11-2018, 10:35 AM   #1
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Default Script: Easy Preview Before Recording(PreRoll)

An Ultraschall.fm user suggested to us a feature, that may or may not be of use for some of you.
He was asking for a simple way of previewing a project, before starting recording; Preroll, but easier to use.

So I build this script:
https://github.com/Ultraschall/ultra...eRecording.lua

To use it, add it to Reaper and do the following:
1) Set the Edit-cursor to the position, where the recording shall start
2) Start the script, it opens a window with an OK-Button
3) Set the Edit-cursor to the position, where you want to start playback
4) Hit OK

It will start playback from the position from 3) and start recording from the position from 1).
See the following gif on how it looks in practice:



This is probably the easiest way to use pre-roll for all of you, who find using pre-roll too complicated or don't have hardware for punch-in/punch-out-stuff.

Edit: The wrong play-offset seen in the gif isn't in the script. It happened to due using the screen-recording-app, which skipped sometimes a few milliseconds.

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Old 09-11-2018, 10:43 AM   #2
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I'm open for suggestions and yep, I will make the OK-button much cuter in a future version
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Old 09-13-2018, 09:34 AM   #3
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Note to myself: adding a second button "Use last Pre-Roll-length".
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Old 09-13-2018, 12:40 PM   #4
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cool. Thank you.

I once wrote a custom action to split the time selection cursors to pre-roll/count-in and then to choose the desired length ahead and after the recording has stopped. That is quite handy when you wanna record in a loop to give the artist some time to get back to the start..

But I like your script also. Thank you!
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Old 09-21-2018, 04:34 AM   #5
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it looks pretty interesting .would love to try this out !

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Old 09-23-2018, 07:12 AM   #6
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it looks pretty interesting .would love to try this out !

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Do it and give me some feedback from your everyday-use-perspective. Im pretty sure, there's a lot to improve upon this

Link for the script is above the gif or use this one:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ul...eRecording.lua
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