[RWP] automation in reaper

[indigo]

Calvin, My previous post on accessing parameters by pressing shift+P in 
track view works for soft synths.
You access parameters for effects in a slightly different way.
I don't have Reaper on this computer right now to refer to to describe 
every exact move, but it's like this.
Press ctrl+T to insert a track for the  effect, press enter.
Press the letter F to go from the track view to the effects routing page.
Use the same tab and arrow key moves you use to find a soft synth from 
track view, in other words tab up to all plugins, select the folder for 
the kind of effect, you want, like JS, DXI, VST, whatever.
Once you have an effects plug selected at your arrow keys, press enter; 
and the effect loads.
Then, find a combo box at your arrow keys which displays presets for the 
plug.
If it's a third party plug you've added to Reaper, its presets will 
already be displayed in a list at that combo box.
If it's an included Reaper plug like ReaControl or ReaDelay, etcetera, 
you will find the announcement No Presets displayed, but don't worry.
If you're in Jaws, press alt+down arrow, then press Page down,  and the 
presets lists displays.
You are placed at  the bottom of the presets list, so will need to arrow 
up through the presets.
Select a preset, press enter.
Now, with each tab down, you find parameters for each of the plug's presets.
There are edit boxes at your arrow keys to type new values into, or 
sliders at your arrow keys to change values.

Changes of effect values can be heard immediately.
  There's no okay key to save changes of values, you can save them by 
saving your project.
In Window-Eyes or NVDA, you don't need to press alt+down arrow in the 
presets combo box; just press page down to display all the presets for 
Reaper's included  effects plugIns.

As of now, actual automation of effects is still eluding us, unless you 
do them from a control surface, which is entirely possible, but I think 
you'll be impressed with how many presets, parameters and values you can 
access in Reaper.
Indigo L

  On 4/23/2012 8:28 AM, Calvin Botha wrote:
> Hay all. Just stumbled upon this list after Reaper caught my
> attention.  I like reaper's speed and versitility but am still getting
> use to its opporations as i'm a sonar user.
>
> Anyway, I was wondering if it is possible to access the automatable
> parameters of vst plug-ins from within reaper like in sonar's track
> inspector.  This often solved many accessibility issues with many vst
> plug-ins.
>
> For those who have never used sonar, the track inspector allowed you
> to see and edit the parameters of the current effect you had loaded.
> For example, if you had a reverb plug-in that supported automation and
> the interface wasn't jaws friendly, you could go to the inspector and
> scrole to, for example, pre-delay and change its value by using the
> plus and minus keys.
>
> My question is, is this possible in reaper?
>
> Kind regards.
>
> DJ D at rkn3ss
>
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