[RWP] automating mutes and solos in Reaper 3.x

[Scott Chesworth]

Been a long time since those experiments man, but I'd guess not. If I
had gotten any joy with it, I'd have kept plugging away at it until I
had a consistent workflow.

Maybe you'll have more luck. You're more techie than me.

Scott


On 8/19/13, Patrick Perdue <patrick at pdaudio.net> wrote:
> Oh well, at least I'm not alone.
> Did you ever get this to happen at all, or was that the consistent part?
>
> On 8/19/2013 5:12 AM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
>> No need to set volume all the way down, there's a mute item action
>> already in the virtual viewer thingamy.
>>
>> Sorry I don't have a better answer. I couldn't get this to work
>> consistently either, was up against a deadline when I originally
>> tried, so ended up going down the item-based route. Haven't quite
>> worked up enough hatred to put time into rethinking things, yet.
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> On 8/19/13, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> This probably wasn't what you were looking for but you know how we
>>> decided
>>> automation was flaky and most folks were doing volume automation via
>>> items
>>> splitting and such?
>>>
>>> Why not just set volumes down all the way in your split items?
>>> for parts you want to mute.
>>>
>>> Not elegant, but it'll work.
>>>
>>> Automation in reaper right now is something that'll drive a blind fellow
>>> to
>>> substance abuse 'grin'.
>>>
>>>
>>>    ----- Original Message -----
>>>    From: Patrick Perdue
>>>    To: Reapers Without Peepers
>>>    Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 11:34 PM
>>>    Subject: [RWP] automating mutes and solos in Reaper 3.x
>>>
>>>
>>>    Hello:
>>>
>>>    I'm trying to figure out how to automate mutes and solos in a project
>>>    with Reaper v3.78. This doesn't happen by default with the actions
>>> that
>>>    are mapped to f5/f6, or even with my control surface (Korg
>>> Nanokontrol
>>>    in Mackie control universal mode) and it's mute/solo buttons. Is
>>> there
>>>    another action that works? I can automate other things, like master
>>>    volume, playrate change, track volume and pan, as well as effect
>>>    parameters, but so far, I've come up empty on doing the obvious and
>>>    successfully automating track mutes and solos.
>>>
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