SWS Extension Updates

[nofish]

Originally Posted by napochan

Maybe this obvious to most users, but how do I remove an old version of SWS extensions so I can upgrade to the latest version?

I can install SWS v2.12.1 #3 but when I run Reaper (v6.25), it says several versions are installed and to remove the extra versions, but I don't know which files to remove and whether that will prevent Reaper from running.

Would appreciate some guidance so I don't wreck things and can enjoy the latest SWS features.
TIA

Are you on Windows, Mac, Linux?
If Windows:
- In Reaper, run action 'Show REAPER resource path in explorer'.
- close REAPER
- within the folder that opened from step 1, enter the 'Plugins' folder
- remove reaper_sws64.dll from there
- restart REAPER, it should now pick up the correct (latest) one (install location changed from 'Plugins' folder to 'UserPlugins' for the latest version).
- You can check if Reaper sees the correct version via Extensions menu > About SWS Extension, it should say Version 2.12.1.3

[napochan]

Originally Posted by nofish

Are you on Windows, Mac, Linux?
If Windows:
- In Reaper, run action 'Show REAPER resource path in explorer'.
- close REAPER
- within the folder that opened from step 1, enter the 'Plugins' folder
- remove reaper_sws64.dll from there
- restart REAPER, it should now pick up the correct (latest) one (install location changed from 'Plugins' folder to 'UserPlugins' for the latest version).
- You can check if Reaper sees the correct version via Extensions menu > About SWS Extension, it should say Version 2.12.1.3

Thanks nofish! That seemed to work.

I'm running Windows 10, 64-bit. I think the problem stemmed from having two paths for resources; one under Program Files... and another under user AppData/Reaper...

[nofish]

Nice to hear it worked, you're welcome.

[UknownSource]

awesome

thanks@!!

[Swi]

Hello there,
I have been asking for a way to record takes without splits from th beginning of my Reaper journey. I just found this command from SWS that basically does what I want.

SWS/AW: Record Conditional (normal or time selection only, automatically group simultaneously recorded items) (deprecated)

I discovered this because I record 10 tracks of drums (most often) and other multi track recording where I was looking for the auto grouping funtion which is fantastic.

So there are a few conditions where this action does what I want.

I do not loop record very often so this is my "record" command that I set up

Custom: Record
Time selection: Remove time selection
Xenakios/SWS: Set selected tracks record armed
SWS/AW: Record Conditional (normal/time selection/item selection, automatically group simultaneously recorded items) (deprecated)
Item: Disable default fadein/fadeout

Now assuiming I always record from the same place there are no split and everything gets recorded into takes which is amazing frankly. However I need to set up a different "record" command for loop record or I have to get used to creating a time selection of where I want to record to use this without the "remove time selection" bit.

Also and perhaps most importantly, if I decide to record from a little earlier on any take but the first then I have splits that I don't need again and have to do clean up after I am done with the recordings for that spot.


I love having this command and need it for it's grouping function but recording directly into takes without splits was an OMG moment for me. I have been waiting for this for a long time.

Is there a way that if I decided to record a later take in front of the original start position that it would go directly into a take and pad the space forward on the previous takes?

Many many thanks.

[nofish]

^ All the 'Record Conditional (normal/time selection/item selection, automatically group simultaneously recorded items)' action does is check if there's a time or item selection present and then set Reaper's recording mode according to it (and group afterwards).
Would be similar to manually rightclicking Reaper's record button and set it there.



Other than that it doesn't alter Reaper's recording behaviour.

Note sure if that answers your question?

[Swi]

Well then the unexpected by product is also that it records directly into takes (without the splits) when the "options/New recording that overlaps existing media itmes" is set to "splits existing items and creates new takes" (These are the splits that I do not want btw)

I like and need the grouping function but having it record takes without splits is awesome and something i have been trying to get the devs to do for a long time.

To reproduce.
Set a 1 bar time selection and arm a track, then use
SWS/AW: Record Conditional (normal or time selection only, automatically group simultaneously recorded items) (deprecated)
as your record command.

now repeate a few recordings of different lengths starting from the same position. You should find that even though there are recordings of differently lengths there are no splits.

It also works without a time seleciton but the itme length will only appear to be as long as the first take when recording the second and third takes.

[Lopez]

Hi,

in SWS -> Resources -> Themes [x]

I can setup as many themes as I want - good so far!
However, via "Actions" (see "Action list") there are only the first 4 themes loadable



Furthermore, there are no actions for cycling through the list, only non-sws actions are there ("Switch to next color theme") but it's cycling through _all_ existing themes, not just the "selected" ones in SWS->Resources->Themes


Long story short: My feature requests, please add:

* "Load theme slot 5" up to "slot 10" (or even more?)
* "Load next theme slot" and "Load previous theme slot"


FAQ:

Q: Why you need 10 theme slots to load?

A: There are so many themes out there, and famous ones even have forks (e.g. RADO, WT Imperial, Hydra,...) and some of them also even have different variations (light/dark, Normal/FullHD/4k/Retina or just color variations) - the only way to load them is via Options -> Themes -> Select theme here. That's not pretty handy at all, at least cycling through a selected portion (via toolbar button) would be helpful! But this requires these not-yet-existing actions


Thanks for your attention!

[nofish]

Originally Posted by Lopez

* "Load theme slot 5" up to "slot 10" (or even more?)

You can set it in S&M.ini file:
- in Reaper, run action: Show REAPER resource path in explorer
- quit Reaper
- open S&M.ini from the folder that opened via step 1 in a text editor
- locate S&M_LOAD_THEME=4 entry in the [NbOfActions] section and change it to your liking (e.g. S&M_LOAD_THEME=10)
- save, restart Reaper, additional load theme slot actions should appear.



(Note that section [ColorThemes] Max_slot= entry is also relevant here, if you want to have more slots in the Resources window.)

[Lopez]

Originally Posted by nofish

You can set it in S&M.ini file:

(Note that section [ColorThemes] Max_slot= entry is also relevant here, if you want to have more slots in the Resources window.)

If I do so, I can use it for myself, but I cannot share it with others, as long as they do not also make the change for themselves :/

However, thanks for the info, will try a bit!

[garygiles63]

HI

How do I make the font bigger on the S&M Notes Window on a PC?

Regards
Gary

[Skorobagatko]

Originally Posted by garygiles63

HI

How do I make the font bigger on the S&M Notes Window on a PC?

Regards
Gary

Click lock icon on the left up corner then resize the window.

[garygiles63]

Originally Posted by Skorobagatko

Click lock icon on the left up corner then resize the window.

HI

I'm afraid the amount of text doesn't make it practical to resize the window. There must be a way to just increase the font size?

Regards
Gary

[nofish]

Originally Posted by garygiles63

HI

I'm afraid the amount of text doesn't make it practical to resize the window. There must be a way to just increase the font size?

Regards
Gary

Requested but currently not possible unfortunately.

[Rodilab]

Hi

Why the marker_lane and tempo_lane detected by BR_GetMouseCursorContext() seems to be shifted?
Especially the marker_lane: Reaper mouse is on a marker, but BR_GetMouseCursorContext() returns tempo_lane.


Yellow: Tempo lane
Red: Marker lane
Green: Region lane



I use MacOS 10.15 (but it's the same on Windows 10 x64)

[cfillion]

Originally Posted by Rodilab

Why the marker_lane and tempo_lane detected by BR_GetMouseCursorContext() seems to be shifted?
Especially the marker_lane: Reaper mouse is on a marker, but BR_GetMouseCursorContext() returns tempo_lane.

It hasn't been updated to v5.65's new dynamic lane heights. It's a known issue: https://github.com/reaper-oss/sws/issues/916.

I tried fixing it before, but couldn't come up with way to perfectly calculate the height of each lane based only on the total ruler height (+ the various customization settings).

[Rodilab]

Thanks for the explanation.
Too bad, because this tool is really useful.

By the way, small suggestion:
It would be useful to add take marker hovered detection. I don't know if it's possible

[Phazma]

I asked this in another thread and got no answer... hope this is the right place to ask it.

If I got this right, when the checkbox "Prevent UI refresh" is active Cycle Actions should run through without updating the Reaper UI (so multiple processes can happen in a row without flickering).

However with the Cycle Action I use this seems not to be the case:





Is this user error, a bug, or just misunderstanding on my side of what "Prevent UI refresh" means?

[nofish]

Originally Posted by Phazma

Is this user error, a bug, or just misunderstanding on my side of what "Prevent UI refresh" means?

From implementation side it means that when having that box ticked, before executing a cycle action, PreventUIRefresh API function is called to enable it, and afterwards called again to disable it.

If something isn't obeyed by this (as seen in your pic) I think the issue is rather on Reaper side than on SWS side.
To check you could make a script like:

reaper.PreventUIRefresh(1)
reaper.Main_OnCommand(41679, 0) -- Open/close toolbar 1
reaper.Main_OnCommand(41681, 0) -- Open/close toolbar 3
reaper.PreventUIRefresh(-1)

and if you get same flickering it'd be on Reaper side.

[Phazma]

Thanks for explaining.

Originally Posted by nofish

and if you get same flickering it'd be on Reaper side.

Indeed it still flickers also as a script.. guess I am once again doing specific edge-case stuff which Reaper doesn't want me to do.

[earhax]

Some bugs I've noticed recently with SWS actions:

'SWS/BR: Copy selected points in selected envelope to all visible record-armed envelopes in selected tracks paste at edit cursor': copies a minimum value point to a max value point on all envelopes, and only copied one point out of 2 selected.

'SWS/S&M: Copy/Cut FX chain (depending on focus)' and 'SWS/S&M: Paste FX chain (depending on focus)': paste copied/cut FX chain from item to track deletes all items on track (inconsistent/intermittent bug).

'SWS/S&M: Toggle selected FX bypass for selected tracks': only toggles bypass on one selected fx instead of all selected.
(workaround: system preferences keyboard shortcut for menu item (macOS), works for both item FX and track FX when viewing FX chain windows)

There are some other bugs I came across too but forgot to make note of them at the time. I'll post more if I run into them again.

And in case it might help with any of the bugs, here's my system info:

Hardware Configuration:
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro14,3
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.9 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 16 GB
Boot ROM Version: 185.0.0
SMC Version (system): 2.45f0

System Software Overview:
System Version: macOS 10.12.6 (16G29)
Kernel Version: Darwin 16.7.0
Boot Volume: OSX
Boot Mode: Normal

REAPER v6.13/64 rev 2252ae (Jul 22 2020)
SWS v2.12.1.3 Darwin x86_64 (Feb 6 2021)

[earhax]

Also, is it possible, either using an SWS action or otherwise (ReaScript), to preview a selected item/items through any item/take FX they may have instead of just through the track FX?

I've been using the action 'Xenakios/SWS: Preview selected media item through track'. It's really useful! But I wish it would preview with any item/take FX (including FX automation) on the item as it does with any volume/pan/pitch envelopes.

And if it would also somehow be possible to do the same sort of thing ("previewing" selected items, or playing them without running the transport) to play not just one, but multiple selected items together (as if using the transport to play, and the items were item soloed), that would be a fantastic solution to a problem I've been facing in a lot of my recent work!

Thank you, SWS crew, for some really amazing and helpful extensions!

[cfillion]

Originally Posted by earhax

'SWS/BR: Copy selected points in selected envelope to all visible record-armed envelopes in selected tracks paste at edit cursor': copies a minimum value point to a max value point on all envelopes, and only copied one point out of 2 selected.

'SWS/S&M: Copy/Cut FX chain (depending on focus)' and 'SWS/S&M: Paste FX chain (depending on focus)': paste copied/cut FX chain from item to track deletes all items on track (inconsistent/intermittent bug).

Couldn't duplicate that, can you share a .gif or text instructions to trigger these two issues? (Also, individual bug reports are easier to track long-term on the issue tracker instead of one forum post.)

Originally Posted by earhax

'SWS/S&M: Toggle selected FX bypass for selected tracks': only toggles bypass on one selected fx instead of all selected.
(workaround: system preferences keyboard shortcut for menu item (macOS), works for both item FX and track FX when viewing FX chain windows)

That's the intended behavior: "Selected FX" (singular) in SWS refer to the track's last open FX. It's unrelated to the selection state in the FX chain's user interface. However there's been some progress toward changing that (https://github.com/reaper-oss/sws/issues/1443).

[earhax]

Originally Posted by cfillion

Couldn't duplicate that, can you share a .gif or text instructions to trigger these two issues? (Also, individual bug reports are easier to track long-term on the issue tracker instead of one forum post.)



That's the intended behavior: "Selected FX" (singular) in SWS refer to the track's last open FX. It's unrelated to the selection state in the FX chain's user interface. However there's been some progress toward changing that (https://github.com/reaper-oss/sws/issues/1443).

Okay. Thanks for the info! If I can still repro the first two I'll put them and the repro details in the issue tracker.

BTW, do you know anything about the preview action, or if it would be possible to do something like I was asking about in my second post?

[Pink Wool]

Can the "SWS: Toggle ruler red while recording" color be changed?

[nofish]

Originally Posted by Pink Wool

Can the "SWS: Toggle ruler red while recording" color be changed?

Not currently, it's hardcoded (https://github.com/reaper-oss/sws/bl...Color.cpp#L734).

[Pink Wool]

Originally Posted by nofish

Not currently, it's hardcoded (https://github.com/reaper-oss/sws/bl...Color.cpp#L734).

Ok. Too bad!

Thanks for the info anyway!

[Reflected]

is there a way to export all snapshots for selected track ?

[brk303]

I'm using SWS marker actions, and I've noticed that Reaper sometimes just plays over marker which has a command to stop playback.

So it should stop every time play cursor reaches the marker position, but in some cases it just keeps on playing.

I have a feeling it happens when there is more cpu usage, as if marker processing is lower priority and gets skipped if it's not processed in time.

Anyone else noticed this ?

BTW, where does one report SWS bugs, directly to github issues ?

[nofish]

Originally Posted by brk303

BTW, where does one report SWS bugs, directly to github issues ?

Yes, here:
https://github.com/reaper-oss/sws/issues

[Daodan]

Hi. Is it possible to add "frozen" in Filter list in Auto Color/Icon/Layout?


Reaper have no indication on frozen tracks, so with this feature we'll be able to automatically add special icon to frozen tracks (snowflake for example) to make them stand out.

This came to my mind after I watched this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yhCtATxIq4&t=168s

[Wallaby]

Copied all files into the suggested folders, started Reaper, nothing appears, No extensions menu.
MacBook Air M1, BigSur.
Anyone got this working ? Just wondering...

[mschnell]

Originally Posted by Daodan

This came to my mind after I watched this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yhCtATxIq4&t=168s

He says, the icon is added, when the track is frozen.

But I understand the icon is added, when the track is being frozen, and it's not removed any more.

Is there any difference between a track that has been frozen and a track that has the same (the "frozen") audio item from the beginning ? I.e. can you detect that the current state of a track has been provided by a freeing action and not by something else ?
-Michael

[gsbe]

How do you apply a collection of SWS actions to an entire folder of audio files? Thanks!

[Edison]

Originally Posted by cfillion

It hasn't been updated to v5.65's new dynamic lane heights. It's a known issue: https://github.com/reaper-oss/sws/issues/916.

I tried fixing it before, but couldn't come up with way to perfectly calculate the height of each lane based only on the total ruler height (+ the various customization settings).

Hi cfillion,

template_sws2.12.1.3 (See pic)


Best regards,

[Pink Wool]

Originally Posted by Pink Wool

Can the "SWS: Toggle ruler red while recording" color be changed?

Any chance we could get this "updated"?

[cfillion]

Originally Posted by Edison

Hi cfillion,

template_sws2.12.1.3 (See pic)

Best regards,

The picture just shows two actions, what about them?

[nofish]

I think it's a heads up that it's supposed to say 'Go to...' rather than 'Goto...'?

edit:
Corrected for next SWS version.

[Edison]

Originally Posted by cfillion

The picture just shows two actions, what about them?

I was referring to the text of both actions, error typing. Should be 'Go to/select...' and not 'Goto/select...'

Best regards,

[mozart999uk]

Any chance this might be looked at for the next release?

https://github.com/reaper-oss/sws/issues/1512