Old 10-04-2017, 07:01 AM   #1
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So I can't get the action "select all tracks in group x.." to fire without having a parameter box ticked. I'm using groups to show and hide sets of tracks and my workaround now is checking the record arm slave box. That works ok because I'm mostly doing this while I'm mixing.

The "group enabled" tickbox makes it seem like this should work without checking any of the parameter boxes. It would be super helpful to me if it did.

Anyways, does anyone have a suggestion or a smarter workaround for this?
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Old 10-04-2017, 07:41 AM   #2
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Not sure if I understand your intention correctly but what about this action pack of me2beats you get with his repo for ReaPack:
Script: me2beats_Save selected tracks, slot 1 (persist).lua
Script: me2beats_Toggle show-hide saved tracks, slot 1 (persist).lua
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Old 10-04-2017, 07:52 AM   #3
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Not sure if I understand your intention correctly but what about this action pack of me2beats you get with his repo for ReaPack:
Script: me2beats_Save selected tracks, slot 1 (persist).lua
Script: me2beats_Toggle show-hide saved tracks, slot 1 (persist).lua
Luster,

Yes I am terrible at communicating!

The goal is to show/hide sets of tracks. For instance, I would like to be able to hit one button and see my drum tracks along with the drum buss and 2 buss. For guitars, I would like to hit one button and see all guitars, the guitar buss, and 2 buss.

So yeah it looks like that script could work wonders and I will definitely try it.

Someone on facebook also mentioned track visibility is part of snapshots so I could potentially use that as well.

Both of those suggestions I'm sure will easily beat out me having to use groups.

Thank you very much.
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Old 10-04-2017, 08:02 AM   #4
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This is how I do it and I use this stuff a ton.

http://reaperblog.net/2015/07/showhi...ustom-actions/

http://reaperblog.net/2017/06/show-hide_sws/
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Old 10-04-2017, 08:38 AM   #5
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Hey Jon!

First of all, you've been instrumental in my switch to Reaper. The program is awesome but the community here is outstanding and you're one of the people that make it that way, so thank you.

Back on topic:

These reasconsole custom commands are great and I did try to use them for my workflow. Unfortunately for me, I 1. Havent adopted the folder workflow and 2. I want to incude multiple sets of tracks. For instance, all the drum tracks, the all drum submix, and then the 2 buss. Then I would like to only see guitars, the guitar buss, and 2 buss. So while this is an awesome functionality of reaper, it doesn't really suit my needs here. If I can modify your custom action to work for me obviously that would be great. I did try to modify the CA but couldnt really think of the right way to go about it.
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This is how I do it and I use this stuff a ton.

http://reaperblog.net/2015/07/showhi...ustom-actions/
This is another way to do it which might be the best for the OP request. For me the workflow is changing dependent on project, so I don't have always the same naming schemes. With the mentioned scripts you don't have a GUI but on the other hand - you simply press the shortcut to check out how you did set it up the last time for the according project.

In the end a GUI version of me2beats script might be the killer. Unfortunately I am not the scripter kind of guy...
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Old 10-04-2017, 09:08 AM   #7
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This is another way to do it which might be the best for the OP request. For me the workflow is changing dependent on project, so I don't have always the same naming schemes. With the mentioned scripts you don't have a GUI but on the other hand - you simply press the shortcut to check out how you did set it up the last time for the according project.

In the end a GUI version of me2beats script might be the killer. Unfortunately I am not the scripter kind of guy...
I thought this would be cool


https://forum.cockos.com/showthread....light=Marcoctn


However, I couldn't get it to work and even if I did, I don't think I can control any part of that via my midi controller (behringer cmd touch(which is insanely awesome for using it for calling actions))
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You may also want to consider Heda's Track Inspector with its Tags feature.

https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=174202
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Console command
"S*guitar*" will select ONLY tracks named ANY variation of "guitar"
"s*2 bus" will add a track named "2 bus" to the selection

put these into a cycle action
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You may also want to consider Heda's Track Inspector with its Tags feature.

https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=174202

Definitely.

I was thinking about trying this out, it just seemed a little too deep for what I was trying to accomplish. Not knocking the script(s) either it looks amazing and intense.
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Console command
"S*guitar*" will select ONLY tracks named ANY variation of "guitar"
"s*2 bus" will add a track named "2 bus" to the selection

put these into a cycle action
That's actually a good idea!

Still though, would definitely dig if I could hit one button one time and see the tracks I want.

Talking to another buddy of mine who used groups to do what I am trying to do. He mentioned to me that "record arm slave" or any slave box for that matter should not have any real functionality as long as its not assigned a master.

So my original post was wrong, I should be able to do exactly what I'm trying to do.

And since tracks can belong to multiple groups I should have no problem with

Group 1 = drum tracks + drum buss + 2 buss
Group 2 = bass tracks + all bass + 2 buss
Etc

My only downfall was the having to check a parameter box in the group details. When I was originally testing this out, I must have had all the tracks selected creating a temporary group so the record arm button was effecting all the tracks.

Thanks for everyone's input.

Very nice to know I have options.
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