Any tips if this exists already? It seems this did not exist yet, here a first experiment. This works only with first track so far. Use case example, take any track with more than 1 fx, e.g. 17 fx. Select this first track, run folderify_fx.lua and you will get 17 subchildren tracks, in each child track only 1 fx, in reverse order, so your original first fx will be in last subfolder track, traveling from there up, so your midi items you should place in this lowest level folder track, so the signal/notes can travel up to the highest folder. Advantages: Experimentation field. You can render from any serial node position, you can route from any serial node position. Easily. All in view, plus you get space to add/change/modify things, after each serial node. This space is missing otherwise.
Next step would be making this work from any track position. Tried a little, did not work yet. Suggestion is, take a track template, load it, folderify it, save as a new track template, use in other projects this new folderified structure. This structure allows also track selection based recordings, from any serial node position. At some point I can make a short video.
folderify_fx.lua
PHP Code:
function msg(m) reaper.ShowConsoleMsg(tostring(m) .. "\n") end
local selectedTrackCount = reaper.CountSelectedTracks(0) if selectedTrackCount < 1 then msg("please select a track first, thanks. And it should be the first track in project otherwise this script does not work correctly yet, hehe, TonE") return nil end
local fromFx = 0 local fromTrackIdx = 0 -- local fromTrack = reaper.GetTrack(0,fromTrackIdx)
-- msg("selected track is, fromTrack: " .. fromTrack)
-- MediaTrack reaper.GetSelectedTrack(ReaProject proj, integer seltrackidx) -- Get a selected track from a project (proj=0 for active project) by selected track count (zero-based). This function ignores the master track, see GetSelectedTrack2.
local fromTrack = reaper.GetSelectedTrack(0, 0) -- get selected track local fx = reaper.TrackFX_GetCount(fromTrack)
local i = 0 local move = 1 while (fx > 0) do i = i + 1 -- create a new track as last track -- Track: Insert new track, 40001 -- reaper.Main_OnCommand(40001, 0)
-- Xenakios/SWS: Select next tracks -- _XENAKIOS_SELNEXTTRACK reaper.Main_OnCommand(reaper.NamedCommandLookup('_XENAKIOS_SELNEXTTRACK'), 0) -- Xenakios/SWS: Select next tracks
-- integer reaper.GetNumTracks() local tracks = reaper.GetNumTracks() local last_track = tracks - 1 -- msg("project has so many tracks: " .. tracks)
-- local toTrackIdx = 1 -- local toTrackIdx = last_track -- local toTrackIdx = fromTrackIdx + i -- msg("last track: " .. last_track .. " and i: " .. i) local fromTrackIdx = reaper.GetMediaTrackInfo_Value(fromTrack, 'IP_TRACKNUMBER') -- using math.floor for converting to integer -- msg("fromTrackIdx of fromTrack: " .. math.floor(fromTrackIdx)) local toTrackIdx = i -- + math.floor(fromTrackIdx) -- fx_id = reaper.TrackFX_GetByName(dest_track, 'ReaEQ (Cockos)', false)
-- MediaTrack reaper.GetTrack(ReaProject proj, integer trackidx) -- get a track from a project by track count (zero-based) (proj=0 for active project) local destTrack = reaper.GetTrack(0,toTrackIdx)
-- msg("destTrack: " .. tostring(destTrack)) -- msg("so many fx track still has: " .. fx) -- msg("i: " .. i)
-- reaper.TrackFX_CopyToTrack(fromTrack, fromFx, destTrack, reaper.TrackFX_GetCount(destTrack), move) -- Get FX name local ret, name = reaper.TrackFX_GetFXName(fromTrack, fx-1, "") -- msg("fx name is: " .. name) reaper.TrackFX_CopyToTrack(fromTrack, fx-1, destTrack, reaper.TrackFX_GetCount(destTrack), move) reaper.GetSetMediaTrackInfo_String(destTrack, "P_NAME", name, true) -- true is setting track name, false is getting track name fx = fx - 1
-- security if things go wrong stopping after 140 rounds not to continue infinitely
But what is it good for? If you want to create crazy machines, like stuff Vangelis is doing and switching with his foot pedals, you can do similar experiments with tools available inside Reaper, using all jsfx or pizmidi kind vst tools. You can observe the system inner details, by recording after each fx, e.g. the output, and you could reroute this component to elsewhere, another bus or midi channel and so on, just experimenting with Reaper tools for creating complex systems/tools. Or creating something like Zyklus MPS-1 Midi Performance System.
New version of folderify, which works for any track, hopefully. But still this is dependent on default settings for a new track, as it is using me2beats_Create child track.lua which is exactly this.
PHP Code:
-- go to next computer shop if your computer explodes because of this script
function msg(m)
reaper.ShowConsoleMsg(tostring(m) .. "\n")
end
local selectedTrackCount = reaper.CountSelectedTracks(0)
if selectedTrackCount < 1 then
msg("Please select a track first, thanks. Attention this script is dependent on your default settings for a new track, TonE")
return nil
end
sel_tr_count = reaper.CountSelectedTracks(0)
if sel_tr_count ~= nil then
for j = 1, sel_tr_count do
local fromTrack = reaper.GetSelectedTrack(0, j-1)
if fromTrack ~= nil then
-- do something
local fx = reaper.TrackFX_GetCount(fromTrack)
local i = 0
local move = 1
while (fx > 0) do
i = i + 1
reaper.Main_OnCommand(reaper.NamedCommandLookup('_RS68d2637109357d48b10e1ac29d681ba6e7220dd9'), 0) -- Script: me2beats_Create child track.lua
reaper.Main_OnCommand(reaper.NamedCommandLookup('_XENAKIOS_SELNEXTTRACK'), 0) -- Xenakios/SWS: Select next tracks
local fromTrackIdx = reaper.GetMediaTrackInfo_Value(fromTrack, 'IP_TRACKNUMBER')
--msg("fromTrackIdx: " .. math.floor(fromTrackIdx))
local toTrackIdx = i + math.floor(fromTrackIdx) - 1
--msg("toTrackIdx: " .. toTrackIdx)
-- MediaTrack reaper.GetTrack(ReaProject proj, integer trackidx)
-- get a track from a project by track count (zero-based) (proj=0 for active project)
local destTrack = reaper.GetTrack(0,toTrackIdx)
-- Get FX name
local ret, name = reaper.TrackFX_GetFXName(fromTrack, fx-1, "")
reaper.TrackFX_CopyToTrack(fromTrack, fx-1, destTrack, reaper.TrackFX_GetCount(destTrack), move)
reaper.GetSetMediaTrackInfo_String(destTrack, "P_NAME", name, true) -- true is setting track name, false is getting track name
fx = fx - 1
-- security if things go wrong stopping after 140 rounds not to continue infinitely
if (i > 140) then
break
end
end
end
end
end
Folderify fx.lua
Linear Mode
