SWS Extension Updates

[musicbynumbers]

"I" (just wanted to be different but feel the same way!)

[Sound asleep]

sweet SWS update. i also agree that toggle inline editor would be cool. but this is great update. bon boulot!

[semiquaver]

the metronome actions are useful as marker actions - to turn the metronome on for a countdown to a then off again...

[captain caveman]

Originally Posted by Jeffos

1) With external source files: "lanes" should now be always consistent whatever are take lengths, recording order, etc..

Thanks very much for the update Jeffos!

Although the update is now correctly keeping the same filename together in the same lane, it appears to be ordering takes in terms of the length of the take (ie longest take = Take 1) instead of the order that they were recorded in.

[egoplasma]

Originally Posted by pixeltarian

I think "show/hide inline editor" would be a nice toggle action. then I could toggle vertical zoom and edit modes at once. who's with me?

Yes, me too! Would be a nice addition and very useful!

[EvilDragon]

If only inline editor was up to par... but it isn't, sadly.

[Sound asleep]

just noticed that the close floating Fx windows command is a one way deal rather than a toggle. maybe it's impossible to create a toggle with the way it is programmed, idk. but a toggle would be awesome. that's one thing i thought Sonar did well was their x-ray thingy where they used vista's alpha thing for windows, to make them transparent at the touch of a button. really cool, but in all honesty, to me, just hiding and showing FX window at the touch of a button is just as good, and in fact probably better as it is a bit lighter on resources i would imagine. i think the toggle all floating windows from last SWS update is still my go to for toggling FX window, the downer is i can't use it while inline editor is open because my inline editor is a floating window.

[Sound asleep]

I actually have another kind of strange question i guess. i'm just wondering about how long macros can be, or what would be the result of a super long macro.

sometimes i like to play over a loop for a while and i build up a bunch of takes, which i would then like to link up one after the other into one long take.

maybe there's an easier way, idk, but one thing i was thinking was i could use the command that sends selected take to right, and then use the one that selects next take down, and so on and so forth until it is completed. the thing is, there is no way to add the 'until it is completed' command. so i'd have to make a super long bunch of repeating commands which would always certainly be more in number than the number of takes i would have taken, which would be a real lot.

so basically i'm wondering if A) there might be an easier way to do this (i believe all takes are saved as one file name, so maybe i could somehow take advantage of that?) or B) is it a bad idea to make a huge list of repeating commands as a macro, and/or will it act as i would expect it to. i know sometimes for programming, you need to add pauses for things like this because otherwise things occur too quickly, or too slow depending on how you look at it.

EDIT: Nevermind 'explode all takes in order.' aaaahhh good ol' reaper.

[evanrabby]

toggle floating windows (mot mixer etc): ah yes, i never knew it was there, i have TONS of floating windows and id love to be able to toggle but of course have them toggle back up or else i loose all mt 12 compressors at their positions, etc...

sws is god.

[airon]

Also posted in the issue tracker of the extension.

Why ?

Without a Preview mode(as Nuendo and PT have it), we need to disarm stuff
that we don't want to overwrite during mixing. Reaper makes you click those
parameters by hand for each track.

This request is about groups of automation parameters.


For now these actions may need to make the automation tracks visible as
well, which is a serious flaw for anyone mixing more than one track at a time.

Here are the actions , for selected tracks and all tracks :

Arm all active
Disarm all active

Toggle Arming of Volume
Toggle Arming of Pan
Toggle Arming of Mute
Toggle Arming of Send Level
Toggle Arming of Send Pan
Toggle Arming of Send Mute
Toggle Arming of Plugins All

Toggle Arming of Plugin 1
Toggle Arming of Plugin 2
Toggle Arming of Plugin 3
Toggle Arming of Plugin 4
Toggle Arming of Plugin 5
Toggle Arming of Plugin 6
Toggle Arming of Plugin 7
Toggle Arming of Plugin 8
Toggle Arming of Plugin 9
Toggle Arming of Plugin 10
Toggle Arming of Plugin 11
Toggle Arming of Plugin 12
Toggle Arming of Plugin 13
Toggle Arming of Plugin 14
Toggle Arming of Plugin 15
Toggle Arming of Plugin 16

[lawrs]

Originally Posted by Jeffos

@lawrs: close all floating fx windows is now OK

I cannot thank you enough. Your relentless effort to improve our Reaping lifes shines brighter every other day. Know this that your hard work and time spent is appreciated by world wide Reaper users. That's something to be proud of.

Tim and Jeffos, I posted sometime ago an idea of better editing actions similar to "cut/copy/split , obeying time sel" , yet quite different. My idea was prodding the possibility of detecting last selection, if it's an item selection , or a time selection, and then have the editing action applied to it.

For example, if my last action was clicking on an item, cut/copy/split will apply to edit cursor, even if there is a time selection active. But if my last action was creating time selection, cut/copy/split will be applied to time selection. I believe this could be implemented, since the success of obey time selection actions?

Here's the thread that I posted awhile back :

http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=49634

[Reflected]

Originally Posted by pixeltarian

I think "show/hide inline editor" would be a nice toggle action. then I could toggle vertical zoom and edit modes at once. who's with me?

+1
This could save me a key ^^

[Jeffos]

Guys are talking about the ME or indeed about "inline" editing ?

Originally Posted by Mudchild

Hmm, build lanes - that's good juju! Anything to get around the chaos of auto-split... Seems to be working well, lines everything back up, eh?
However, after performing this command, I then expected to be able to use the 'heal splits' command to join everything back up, which would be supergood, but this doesn't seem to want to happen. Why would this be?

healing not working with multiple takes is a native issue (just try ).

Originally Posted by onewayout

Hey Guys, this might have been mentioned before...But what about duplicating several trks to record our takes on and then we have a clear path for comping?

Not trying to step on anyones toes and Jeffos is working hard on this....But this might be an easy workaround so as to keep the workflow moving.....??

hey, no hard work and hummm.. yes, sure! And I can also launch one REAPER instance for each take!

Originally Posted by captain caveman

Thanks very much for the update Jeffos!

Although the update is now correctly keeping the same filename together in the same lane, it appears to be ordering takes in terms of the length of the take (ie longest take = Take 1) instead of the order that they were recorded in.

the order depends of the takes time-line order, not on their lengths. I also thought to sort them by recording order: this is do-able, but.. would it be really usefull ? the idea of the build lane action is just to see clear after a rock'n'roll recording session. You need more support for that, captain!

[EvilDragon]

Originally Posted by Jeffos

Guys are talking about the ME or indeed about "inline" editing ?

Real inline MIDI editor, so not the main editor.

The toggle command should work like this: opens inline editor for all currently selected items. Closes inline editors ONLY if there are active inline editors open for any of the selected MIDI items.

[Jeffos]

sorry but I don't think it's possible (ED, as you dig into reaScript: nothing in the API to query the inline state of items and this is even not persisted in chunks. it also means that if you have some inline editors opened, you save the project, quit and re-open it: inline editors are closed)

[EvilDragon]

Damn

Cockos really needs to give some more love to in-line editing...

[rictheobscene]

Originally Posted by EvilDragon

Damn

Cockos really needs to give some more love to in-line editing...

Well add a link to your sig, and I will vote for it.

[EvilDragon]

No more room in my sig

However you can search the bug tracker for "inline", and see what it comes up with

[Gelic]

Originally Posted by captain caveman

I don't mean to piss on the fire or anything, but the equivalent to the "P - Locators to Selection" key in Cubase is the action "Loop points: set loop points to selected items". Pressing P in Cubase doesn't play anything.

Apart from that you are right to be excited about the extensions in Reaper.

Hi Captain Caveman,

Yes...the set loop to time selection is the 1st half of the Cubase P command. But, with Cubase, the last take is selected and hitting P is all one needs do. I did eventually find the "set selection to selected items" and though a bit unwieldy as is...with the P assigned to it - now we are in business! Thanks for leading me to this Captain Caveman :-)

Nothing can touch Reaper for it's size and the best thing is zero dongle!! Even though I own Cubase...I'm using Reaper more lately just because it loads much faster and I know I can count on always being able to access Reaper, even if I lose a dongle in travel. No matter how good Cubase is...I will always resent the enslavement to the dongle and be a little biased toward programs like Reaper.

[rst]

Hi, I would like to use SWS bypass functions, like:

SWS/S&M: Toggle FX 1 bypass for selected track(s)
SWS/S&M: Toggle FX 2 bypass for selected track(s)
etc..

But there is one trouble I got in FX ordering in Reaper.

Let's say I have compressors in several tracks and wish to bypass them all. But some tracks contain EQ before compressor, some not. Then some compressors appear in slot1 and some in slot2 and these SWS commands become useless.

I would like to have all compressors aligned in slot2 leaving slot1 empty for some tracks. Is it possible to do in Reaper?

[captain caveman]

Originally Posted by rst

I would like to have all compressors aligned in slot2 leaving slot1 empty for some tracks. Is it possible to do in Reaper?

Dunno if there is a prettier way, but here's a dummy audio JS plugin for you that you can place in slot 1 of the tracks.....

https://stash.reaper.fm/v/4948/-----------------

[Reflected]

Hey Tim

It could be useful to have a "Auto color" for items as well (regardless of track colors)

so any new item that is added to the project will get its own special color and keep the same color for items with the same source

[drew]

That's an interesting one, Reflected - if I understand correctly what you are saying then when you select an item and "Auto Color" it, it would look through existing already colored items (current takes only) and if any of them have the same source then use that same color for the selected one.

It would also need to be able to handle multiple item selection - like a project with lots of items where everything is selected, nothing has been pre-colored, and some of the selected items have the same source.

I'd use it!

[captain caveman]

Originally Posted by captain caveman

......if (anyone) could find you way to providing the "offline/bypass item FX" functionality which is strangely only accessible through an action plus GUI interaction, rather than just an action (offline/bypass selected item(s) FX) that would be great too!!!

Is this possible via extensions at the moment or is there something that needs to be added to the API for it?

[nicholas]

Been trying to load the SWS web site a few times today and it seems down.

Anybody confirm this, or do I just have (as usual ) a bad satellite link?

Thanks!

[sws]

Originally Posted by nicholas

Been trying to load the SWS web site a few times today and it seems down.

Anybody confirm this, or do I just have (as usual ) a bad satellite link?

Thanks!

Yeah, it's down and I'm powerless to fix it. I hope it's back soon but will probably be a little while.

[Kundalinguist]

Flood?

[nicholas]

Originally Posted by sws

Yeah, it's down and I'm powerless to fix it. I hope it's back soon but will probably be a little while.

Well it's a relief to see Tim that you're not down as well!

[earlabs]

Too bad there's no mirror.... I was just sitting down to download, install and bring the lot of the actions under my keyboard control....
Hope you yourself are okay, though!!

[sws]

Ok, I've put up a temporary mirror:

EDIT site's back up.

[NAS]

Just let me know in chat if you need to fire it over onto my server temporarly again SWS

NAS

[flynsk]

FYI for the curious:
The current version (in the mirror) is 1.7.1 Build 4 dated April 3rd.

Thanks, Tim!

[earlabs]

Originally Posted by sws

Ok, I've put up a temporary mirror:

SWS extension, x32 Windows
SWS extension, x64 Windows
SWS extension, OSX

thanks so much!!

[airon]

Originally Posted by airon

Also posted in the issue tracker of the extension.

For selected tracks and all tracks :

Arm all active
Disarm all active

Toggle Arming of Volume
Toggle Arming of Pan
Toggle Arming of Mute
Toggle Arming of Send Level
Toggle Arming of Send Pan
Toggle Arming of Send Mute
Toggle Arming of Plugins All

Toggle Arming of Plugin 1
Toggle Arming of Plugin 2
Toggle Arming of Plugin 3
Toggle Arming of Plugin 4
Toggle Arming of Plugin 5
Toggle Arming of Plugin 6
Toggle Arming of Plugin 7
Toggle Arming of Plugin 8
Toggle Arming of Plugin 9
Toggle Arming of Plugin 10
Toggle Arming of Plugin 11
Toggle Arming of Plugin 12
Toggle Arming of Plugin 13
Toggle Arming of Plugin 14
Toggle Arming of Plugin 15
Toggle Arming of Plugin 16

Is this really hard to do ? Should I ask the Cockos gents for this instead, as it really is something basic for mixing ?

[NAS]

Start a bounty for em Airon

NAS

[sightlessness]

Yeah, so I (we) can vote. :P

[rictheobscene]

I just want to say that I appreciate these extensions. A lot of hard work has gone into making these available, and it is appreciated.

[Darbilly]

Originally Posted by rst

Hi, I would like to use SWS bypass functions, like:

SWS/S&M: Toggle FX 1 bypass for selected track(s)
SWS/S&M: Toggle FX 2 bypass for selected track(s)
etc..

But there is one trouble I got in FX ordering in Reaper.

Let's say I have compressors in several tracks and wish to bypass them all. But some tracks contain EQ before compressor, some not. Then some compressors appear in slot1 and some in slot2 and these SWS commands become useless.

I would like to have all compressors aligned in slot2 leaving slot1 empty for some tracks. Is it possible to do in Reaper?

+1, please!

[airon]

Reaper has no slot system like Protools or Logic. On the other hand, you can rearrange them much easier then in any other DAW. Tradeoffs.

[Darbilly]

"Let's say I have compressors in several tracks and wish to bypass them all."

Will this be possible? Or am I missing something here?
Thanks...