MIDI editor tools: multi-channel editing, pattern selection, MIDI Inspector, etc

[zaibuyidao]

Hi, juliansader. I have been using your script, thank you. I would like to ask about your MIDI editing script:

Script: js_Mouse editing-Draw ramp.lua and Script: js_Mouse editing-Draw LFO.lua

These two scripts draw linear shapes by default. Is it possible to change the line shape, or recognize the line shape set by the MIDI editor by default: SQUARE

I found that the data drawn by the above two scripts would be wrong with other scripts. Such as:

Script: js_Mouse editing-2-sided Warp.lua or Script: js_Move all selected events in active take together with mouse.lua

[juliansader]

Originally Posted by zaibuyidao

Hi, juliansader. I have been using your script, thank you. I would like to ask about your MIDI editing script:

Script: js_Mouse editing-Draw ramp.lua and Script: js_Mouse editing-Draw LFO.lua

These two scripts draw linear shapes by default. Is it possible to change the line shape, or recognize the line shape set by the MIDI editor by default: SQUARE

The reason why the "Draw" scripts use linear envelopes, is that they are intended to draw smooth curves. I can easily edit the scripts to use the MIDI editor's default shape, but I'm not sure that that would be preferable.

Originally Posted by zaibuyidao

I found that the data drawn by the above two scripts would be wrong with other scripts. Such as:

Script: js_Mouse editing-2-sided Warp.lua or Script: js_Move all selected events in active take together with mouse.lua

These two scripts have unfortunately not yet been updated to work with envelope-style CCs.

[zaibuyidao]

Originally Posted by juliansader

The reason why the "Draw" scripts use linear envelopes, is that they are intended to draw smooth curves. I can easily edit the scripts to use the MIDI editor's default shape, but I'm not sure that that would be preferable.

Thank you very much for your reply, and I really agree with your design ideas.

Regarding Script: js_Mouse editing-Draw ramp.lua and Script: js_Mouse editing-Draw LFO.lua, I hope to be able to use SQUARE. In this way, the linearity of all my MIDI items will be uniform, which is convenient for further adjustment in the future.

Since I have only recently started learning code, reading your code looks very laborious. I tried to find the settings for modifying the line shape by myself, but I haven't found it yet. Therefore, I would like to ask you, is there any place in the code to modify the CC Shape?

Thanks again.

[_Stevie_]

It's a bit complex to do that, if you haven't used SetAllEvts before.

This is the synthax:
https://www.extremraym.com/cloud/rea...IDI_SetAllEvts

For changing the CC shape you have to alter the "flags" part.
But there are so many places in Julian's script, I wouldn't know where to start.

[_Stevie_]

Originally Posted by juliansader

The reason why the "Draw" scripts use linear envelopes, is that they are intended to draw smooth curves. I can easily edit the scripts to use the MIDI editor's default shape, but I'm not sure that that would be preferable.

Wouldn't it be possible to provide a toggle for the different modes?
Like pressing "s" for square and "l" for linear. Just a thought.

[juliansader]

Originally Posted by _Stevie_

For changing the CC shape you have to alter the "flags" part.
But there are so many places in Julian's script, I wouldn't know where to start.

To use square shapes, do the following:

In the "Draw LFO" script, go to the function InsertLFOPoint (line 531), and change this line

local flags = ((LFOtype == 6) and 1 or 17) -- CCs within the curve will use linear shape, since this is most versatile, except when square LFO

to

local flags = 1

In the "Draw ramp" script, go to the function InsertCC (line 624) and change the "17" to "1" in the lines that look like this:

tLine[c] = s_pack("i4BI4BBB", offset, 17, ...

[Josh_guitarreiru]

Hi there.
I just installed the Reapack and the MIDI Select and deselect by pattern. Is there any way I can select by pattern notes of a selected pitch? e.g. lets say I wan't to select only 1 every 8 Hi Hat hits. Is that possible considering that there are also Kick and snare hites there?

Thanks!

[juliansader]

Originally Posted by Josh_guitarreiru

I just installed the Reapack and the MIDI Select and deselect by pattern. Is there any way I can select by pattern notes of a selected pitch? e.g. lets say I wan't to select only 1 every 8 Hi Hat hits. Is that possible considering that there are also Kick and snare hites there?

The script applies the select/deselect pattern to pre-selected notes, so to apply the pattern only to hihats, first select all notes at that pitch by right-clicking or -dragging on the keyboard on the left.

You might also find the script "js_Deselect all events outside time selection (from all tracks)" useful, in case you only want to edit hihats within a certain time range.

[Josh_guitarreiru]

OK thanks I was triying to do that but somehow I messed up with the initial selection. I did a few more trials and now I realized every time I want to make a new "initial" selection I have to click "Load new set of notes" isn't it? if not somehow it interferes with previous selection. Am I right?

Thanks for this amazing script!

[juliansader]

Originally Posted by Josh_guitarreiru

OK thanks I was triying to do that but somehow I messed up with the initial selection. I did a few more trials and now I realized every time I want to make a new "initial" selection I have to click "Load new set of notes" isn't it? if not somehow it interferes with previous selection. Am I right?

This is correct.

BTW, I just realized that, on Linux, ReaPack doesn't display my scripts' "Description and Instructions" text in the ReaPack->Browse packages->About window. If you are on Linux, you can find this information at the beginning of the script file itself, which you can read in any text editor, or in REAPER's built-in script editor.

[Crumbfort]

Hi there!

I'm experiencing some strange behavior with "js_Mouse editing - Stretch and Compress" lately. Was working perfectly on High Sierra but I recently updated to Mojave and now the midi editor turns black (from ruler to bottom of CC lanes) when I use the script. The blue line and green line are the only things that show up.

Anyone else experiencing this?

(Love your scripts, by the way! Use them all the time)

[_Stevie_]

Originally Posted by juliansader

(BTW, the Stretch/Compress, Warp, Arch/Tilt scripts have all been combined into the new, much fancier Multi Tool script, so I will soon delete or deprecate the older scripts.)

I mainly use the multi tool but there are situations the single scripts are faster for a certain task. It would be a pity to see them go!

[swiiscompos]

Thank you so much for those scripts, I realize there are some I hadn't used yet (for some reason they were not appearing in the action list even though Reapack said they were installed.)

I have a problem with your Draw Ramp script: it starts well, but whatever I do with the mouse seems to affect Reaper directly rather than going through the script. So for example if I move the mousewheel it zooms in and out, if I right click it opens the contextual menu, etc. Do you know what could be causing that?

EDIT: For some reason it works well in the inline Editor. The problem only happens in the full MIDI editor.

[juliansader]

This is strange... Could you please check the following and let me know:

* Which OS and which versions of REAPER and the ReaScriptAPI extension are you using?

* Do my other MIDI scripts such as the Multi Tool have the same behavior?

* In the Action lists of the inline editor and MIDI editor, open the file in the IDE and check their versions and whether they are the same.

* Are any other scripts running that may be interfering? (Area(51)'s alpha versions did interfere with my MIDI scripts, if Area(51) wasn't terminated before running my scripts.)

* Is the problematic MIDI editor docked?

[swiiscompos]

Originally Posted by juliansader

* In the Action lists of the inline editor and MIDI editor, open the file in the IDE and check their versions and whether they are the same.

It's fixed! You put me on the right track: actually I had set the shortcut for the new script in the "Main" section of the Action List, while same shortcut was used for the old script in the MIDI Editor section.

It also looks like the Inline Editor can get the shortcuts from the Main section, which got me more confused.

Anyway, it works and it's absolutely fantastic, a small thank you should be coming your way

[metronomme]

Hi, I love these tools, thanks Julian for the hard work and for sharing!

I found what I think it might be a bug, or maybe just something I'm not getting right...
The "js_Mouse editing - Draw ramp.lua" is the only one in the tools from this thread that appears in the main window, and as such I was excited to think that I could use it to easily create envelope ramps.. However, it seems not to be working in the main window at all!

Regardless of where I click, the script keeps complaining. This is the text that shows in the error message:

MainOK: false
MainRetval: ...eam Scripts\MIDI Editor\js_Mouse editing - Draw ramp.lua: 1473: attempt to perform a bitwise operation on a nil value (local 'automationItemsOptions')

Because of the error message, I assumed that it would be of use in automation items only, but it keeps complaining with the same error.

Is this intended to be use in the main window at all?

Thanks for clarifying!

[juliansader]

Thank you for the bug report. The script is indeed supposed to work in the main window -- in automation items, take envelopes, as well as old-school track automation. Please try the new version 4.52 that I just uploaded, and let me know if anything else isn't working perfectly.

[metronomme]

Amazing!! Fixed! You are a genius

[metronomme]

@Julian, I added a little UI feedback to the Draw Ramp script so the user would see that some input is expected.
It could be also applied to all the other scripts, but since most of them change the mouse (or even the Multi Tool provides a great visual cue of where to click!!), then I thought it wouldn't be that necessary.

I am new at scripting in Reaper and didn't make any of the code, I actually copied from a post by Lokasenna helping someone else in another thread, and adapted to my needs... Anyway, I created a helper script called showUIMessage.lua and imported it into your Draw Ramp.lua file, and then called into the main() just before the line reaper.atexit(AtExit) like this:

showUIMessage("Hoover the mouse over an envelope \nsegment in order to draw a ramp", "Draw Ramp", 300, 50)
reaper.atexit(AtExit)

showUIMessage.lua is below:

function showUIMessage(sMessage, sTitle, iWidth, iHeight)

local msg_title = sTitle
local msg_str = sMessage
local wnd_w, wnd_h = iWidth, iHeight

-- Get the screen size
local __, __, scr_w, scr_h = reaper.my_getViewport(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)

-- Window background
gfx.clear = reaper.ColorToNative(255,255,255)

-- Open the window
--          Name    w       h   dock    x                   y
gfx.init(msg_title, wnd_w, wnd_h, 0, (scr_w - wnd_w) *2 /3,100)

gfx.setfont(1, "Arial", 16)

-- Black
gfx.set(0, 0, 0, 1)

-- Center the text
local str_w, str_h = gfx.measurestr(msg_str)
local txt_x, txt_y = (gfx.w - str_w) / 2, (gfx.h - str_h) / 2

local function Main()
    -- Center the text
    gfx.x, gfx.y = txt_x, txt_y
    gfx.drawstr(msg_str)
end

Main()

end

The script was imported using a strange and a bit convoluted way which apparently is the accepted solution:

local info = debug.getinfo(1,'S');
script_path = info.source:match[[^@?(.*[\/])[^\/]-$]]
dofile(script_path .. "metro_showUIMessage.lua")

But maybe there is a better way of doing this? I don't know. Anyway, I'm happy to make a pull request, or feel free to add this to your main code if you want!

And as always, thanks for your amazing work.

[juliansader]

Originally Posted by metronomme

But maybe there is a better way of doing this? I don't know. Anyway, I'm happy to make a pull request, or feel free to add this to your main code if you want!

Thanks for the suggestion. This is the great advantage of scripts over native functions: any user can customize scripts.

I can implement the message as a little tooltip that moves along with the mouse, and that pops up if the mouse is outside an envelope lane when the script starts.

[Joe90]

Originally Posted by Vagelis

You are the best! Finally we have multi tool for arrange!

! How did I miss this! Can't wait to try it.

[metronomme]

Originally Posted by juliansader

I can implement the message as a little tooltip that moves along with the mouse, and that pops up if the mouse is outside an envelope lane when the script starts.

Yes, I feel that would be a way more elegant solution! (BTW, you may want to try this for your other MIDI editor tools as well. Just an idea!)

Thanks as always.

[YuriOl]

Hi Julian.
I really like your script-js_Mouse editing - Slice notes.lua and I often miss the function of cutting notes on the left.
Is it possible to add an option to trim notes on the left?

[EvilDragon]

This thing is still happening in docked MIDI inspector (even in the latest version which has flicker reduction - but I'm not sure if that's relevant here):

[EvilDragon]

Hey, Julian, I see you added "redraw docked inspector while playing or recording" 2 days ago...

Unfortunately, no dice! What would be the cause of this degradation?

[juliansader]

Originally Posted by EvilDragon

Hey, Julian, I see you added "redraw docked inspector while playing or recording" 2 days ago...

Unfortunately, no dice! What would be the cause of this degradation?

I assumed that this happened when your playhead moved across the Inspector's text. Does it happen in any other situations? Does it only happen when you play/stop/loop in a specific way?

When moving the playhead, REAPER draws directly to the screen, bypassing the normal window update functions that trigger composited graphics to redraw/update too.

[Arthur McArthur]

I just discovered your Hotstrings script and would like to request some additional functionality from it:

- option for keystroke intercept whether or not the script window has focus, or is docked

- pass through option for keystrokes. E.g. : my undo is mapped to shift-alt-Z, when I press this while the script is open, I get the error

...REAPER\Scripts\ReaTeam Scripts\Various\js_Hotstrings.lua:144: bad argument #1 to 'char' (value out of range)

- a per action option to leave the script window open after executing. This is useful for things like changing pitch and rate by cents that you have to do multiple times.

- ability to use numbers at the start of a hotstring. If I try to start one with a number it gives me:

- escape key closes the script

js_Hotstrings - table.lua:18: '}' expected (to close '{' at line 8) near 'w'

If you decide to take a break from Razor Edit multi edit to look at these, I'd be very grateful!

[juliansader]

Originally Posted by Arthur McArthur

- a per action option to leave the script window open after executing. This is useful for things like changing pitch and rate by cents that you have to do multiple times.

In case you need to repeat the last action multiple times, the easiest would probably be to use REAPER's native "Action: Reaper the most recent action".

- escape key closes the script

Do you mean that you *don't* want Esc to terminate the script?

Originally Posted by Arthur McArthur

- option for keystroke intercept whether or not the script window has focus, or is docked
- pass through option for keystrokes. E.g. : my undo is mapped to shift-alt-Z, when I press this while the script is open, I get the error

Changing window behavior would unfortunately be difficult, and would require refactoring the entire script, since 1) script GUI windows need to be in the foreground to intercept keystrokes (unless I use ReaScriptAPI features), and 2) my original intention with the window was to keep it inconspicuous, only expanding temporarily when the user needs a reminder.

- ability to use numbers at the start of a hotstring. If I try to start one with a number it gives me:

To use a number at the start, you must write the hotstring like this in the table file:

["123"] = 40295, -- Zoom project

This is a Lua coding trick, and I will add a remark about this in the help text.

[Thonex]

Hi Julian,

Fantastic work on all your scripts!!

Re: Script: js_Select CC lanes to show in selected MIDI items.lua

I was wondering if there was a line in the code I could alter to get the script GUI to open center-screen or to remember where it was last moved. I have a big monitor and every time I open the script it pops up in the top right corner.

I'm on a Mac.

Any ideas?

Thanks for all your great work!

Cheers,

Andrew K

[juliansader]

Originally Posted by Thonex

Re: Script: js_Select CC lanes to show in selected MIDI items.lua

I was wondering if there was a line in the code I could alter to get the script GUI to open center-screen or to remember where it was last moved. I have a big monitor and every time I open the script it pops up in the top right corner.

I have updated
* js_Select CC lanes to show in MIDI item under mouse
* js_Select CC lanes to show in selected MIDI items

to recall their last-used position. It works well on WindowsOS -- please let me know if it also works on macOS.

[Thonex]

Originally Posted by juliansader

I have updated
* js_Select CC lanes to show in MIDI item under mouse
* js_Select CC lanes to show in selected MIDI items

to recall their last-used position. It works well on WindowsOS -- please let me know if it also works on macOS.

OMG!!! Such a fast turnaround!

FANTASTIC!!!

Works like a charm in MAC OS... remembers the last opened position!

Thanks so much JS!!

Cheers,

Andrew K

[X-Raym]

Happy new year Julian !


Just used your Script: js_Select and deselect MIDI notes by step pattern.lua, very nice script, the best compared to the other attempts on this concept !


Though I would like to propose few UX enhancements :

• mouse wheel over settings should change value( number of steps, and mode)
• click and up key currently change mode: this is a bit surprising and unexpcted : https://i.imgur.com/tTaqgOD.gif, Could you add regular scroll left.right behavior for mode also ?

And few nip ticks:

• division label is left align, but mod is center... Maybe more elegant all left :P
• just and idea: I think it is not extra clear that Mode and Load set of button are buttons and actually not just display info... maybe some kind of mouse hover state, or background color ?

You can take inspiration from my humanize script GUI. (script is unreleased but you can see the GUI demo)


Cheers !

[mozart999uk]

Just thinking about Midi inspector....

Is there a way to make the font bigger than 16 pixels?

Also would there be a way to have the values adjust in real time?

[juliansader]

For the docked version (that displays inside the MIDI editor ruler), you can adjust font size via the right-click menu.

For the windowed version, you can edit the textHeight variable in the script file's User Area (near the top of the script, just below the changelog).

[mozart999uk]

Originally Posted by juliansader

For the docked version (that displays inside the MIDI editor ruler), you can adjust font size via the right-click menu.

For the windowed version, you can edit the textHeight variable in the script file's User Area (near the top of the script, just below the changelog).

Thanks Julian. For the docked version, is there a way to make the font bigger than 16 pixels?

[juliansader]

It is possible to adjust the script to allow larger fonts, but then the text will start to overlap the tempo/timesig markers.

[mozart999uk]

Thanks Julian. Ah yes I see what you mean. :-)

I don't suppose it would be possible to make it so that you could edit values in the midi inspector itself?

So for example, hold the mouse over one of the values in the inspector and move the mouse wheel up and down would change the value?

Or double click on the value to enter a new one?

[juliansader]

It is possible (and relatively straightforward to implement), but would unfortunately require quite a bit of work.

[mozart999uk]

Originally Posted by juliansader

It is possible (and relatively straightforward to implement), but would unfortunately require quite a bit of work.

Thanks Julian. I understand :-)

[mozart999uk]

I'm making great use of your script for the inline editor "select CC lanes to show in selected midi items"

Then I press "u" to get "used only" and then "enter" to close the gui.

I'm wondering if there's a way to tweak the script so that it automatically shows "used only" and then closes the gui.

It would just save two keystrokes....

I'm only just learning scripting so it's a bit beyond me to do any tweaking on this one :-)

this script is just amazing and fills a major hole for the inline editor.....