[RWP] Automation

Mon May 27 02:06:37 EDT 2013

I know we're at a stand still and an empass with this thing.

Atleast Victor is still tweaking jsonar, with reaaccess we're just dead in 
the water.

That would be my laymans non-programmer answer from what I understand about 
how this stuff works, it just needs to be torn down and started over.

A friend of mine who did some poking around in reaaccess told me that there 
were some serious errors and bad programming practices implimented
in there, like hardwiring paths instead of using environment variables to 
find stuff, and that's why we get error messages when installing stuff, and 
other things which I can't remember but reaaccess was a sweet beginning, but 
kind of a mess.

So where to go from here?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Snowbarger" <Snowman at SnowmanRadio.com>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: [RWP] Automation

Yes, I have  been unable to fully understand  latch mode,  and the published
description does seem to vary from experience.

I keep wondering about ReAccess.  It seems like, since we can't be allowed
to obtain the Reaccess source code, that one could essentially start over
with it.  That's what we need a programmer for.
What documentation was Ivan able to obtain from the cockos people that
allowed him to write ReAccess.  Can we obtain that same documentation?
Maybe,  we already have it, and don't know it.  That's what I would like to
see.  A ground up, complete start over with Reaccess, with the source code
firmly in the public domain.
Because, frankly, I'm tired of not being able to bitch.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Belle" <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: [RWP] Automation

As far as I can tell, automation is not recorded in read mode.

I've only gotten it to take effect when doing the moves in write mode and
then going to read mode to get them to
work, that seems to conflict with the manual, but that's why it's so
important to actually get hands dirty and not just cut and paste stuff.

It also might be a version difference, and I'm working with the last
sanctioned version of reaaccess which is 3.78.

Unexpected things can happen when using mismatched tools, not always to our
benefit.

But in the spirit of exploration, one can't be faulted for using the latest
and greatest.

As long as one knows the risks.

And to
be truthful, reaaccess was a work in progress, not exactly a comprehensive
access package.

But for free, we can't bitch.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 3:06 PM
Subject: [RWP] Automation

Hi Jim,
I think I was doing automation correctly with on-screen controls.
They're just awkward compared to a control surface fader.
A little later I'll post the instructions for setting a mouse scroll
wheel to do automation, everybody must have a practically unused
physical mouse around; if nothing else featuring a fader-like control.
Here's an explanation of the difference between Trim, Latch, Write modes:

snip:
Automation envelopes are used to save and replay movements of track and
FX parameters during playback.
?These changes can be added to envelopes manually (using the mouse) in
Read mode, or written to envelopes as you adjust the track and FX
parameter controls themselves, either with a mouse or using a control
surface device (in Write, Latch or Touch mode).
?The differences between the different automation modes are summarized
in the table below.
?In Write, Touch and Latch modes, any FX parameter rack controls that
have been added to the track panel (in TCP or Mixer view) can be used to
write automation.
?Regardless of which method you use to create your envelopes, they can
be afterwards be adjusted and edited either manually; (Read mode); or by
further tweaking the track control parameter; (Touch or Latch modes).
?Envelopes can be displayed either in individual lanes or above the
media item itself.
Automation Mode
Description
Trim/Read
Existing envelopes are applied, but on-screen controls do not move.
Trim/Read mode might seem strange at first, but it does bring you a
useful benefit. You can use a track’s controls for overall changes.
For example, adjusting a track’s Volume fader in this mode will raise or
lower the volume for that whole track relative to the envelope. In
Trim/Read mode fader movements are not recorded: they are adjusted in
the same way as when no envelope is present.
Read
Applies envelopes and moves controls for armed items; but does not write
or remember any changes that you make to them.
Latch
Writes and remembers any changes that you make using the parameter
controls (for example, an FX parameter fader control), and creates new
points on existing track envelopes. Changes commence when you first
adjust a setting, and continue to be remembered until playback stops.
Touch
This is similar to Latch, but stops making changes to envelope points
when you stop adjusting them.
Write
Writes and remembers current settings as edit points, along with any
changes that you make to parameter values for armed items during playback.
In this mode, previously written envelopes for armed items will be over
written.REAPER's Envelope preferences include an option to automatically
switch to another mode immediately after recording automation in Write
mode. By default, it will switch to Trim/Read.
If you are unsure about any of these basic issues you can find out more
by consulting the User Guide.
Parameter modulation works on a different principle. It does not record
and replay absolute value for a track or FX parameter, but rather uses
the value of one parameter to control another dynamically and in real
time. For example, parameter modulation can be used to automatically
increase a compressor's compression ratio on a vocal as that vocal gets
louder, and to decrease it as it gets quieter.
12.2Envelope Preferences
The Envelope preferences settings are described in the User Guide
(Chapter 19). As you check thru them (either in the guide or in the
above screenshot), a reasonably experienced user will find that many of
them should require no further explanation. However, some of these
options, though important, are quite subtle and their reason for being
there might not be so obvious. For example:
Envelope point selection follows time selection for the active envelope
In most cases I would recommend enabling this option. This will ensure
that when you make a change to your time selection, envelope points
within the new time selection will automatically be selected on the
active envelope.
This is illustrated below. Notice how when the time selection is
changed, so is the envelope point selection.
Notice how when the time selection is changed, so are the selected
points on the currently selected envelope.
This is very handy for those times when you want to adjust together a
range of envelope points in a particular part of your project.
Add edge points when moving envelope points
This setting determines how REAPER behaves when you move a range of
envelope points. It can be used to resolve the question of whether the
transition should become a smooth one or a sudden one.
This really is one of those cases where a picture is worth a thousand words:
In the first (top) picture, a group of four envelope points have been
selected/
In the second (middle) picture, the segment between the second and third
selected point has been lowered, with the option to add edge points enabled.
In the third (bottom) picture, the same segment has been moved, but this
time with this option disabled.
Just as important as the envelope preference setting here are your mouse
modifier preferences for Envelope segment left drag.
Shown here, assuming that in your preferences you have turned this
option off, you can still use Shift Altwhen dragging to over-ride the
normal default setting.
When adding volume/pan envelopes, apply trim to envelope and reset trim.
This is not an easy one to explain. Take your time to understand it: if
you work with volume and/or pan envelopes you will find it useful.
Let's take the track shown here as an example. It's a reverb bus.
Notice, as is not uncommon with such busses, that the volume fader has
been set to quite a low level.
Let's assume that this preference option is set to Never. This is what
happens when we add a volume envelope.
The envelope displays 0.00 dB: this is relative to the track volume
fader. It is located vertically at the mid-way point of the envelope
lane. Another way of thinking about it is to say that the envelope
setting is currently the same as the track fader. If you raise the
envelope by, say 5 dB for part of the song, then that 5 dB will be a 5
dB increase on whatever the track fader reads. This method of working
makes it easy to make adjustments above and below the envelope.
In this second example, the preference is set to Always. The envelope
displays the real decibel setting – in this example -23.5 dB – whilst
the track volume fader now reads 0.0 dB. Any adjustments that you make
to the envelope will be shown on that envelope – and any adjustments
that you make to the track volume fader will be relative to the envelope.
Note that in both cases, adjusting the envelope lane fader will affect
the volume for the whole track. In both cases, the envelope will be
physically moved up or down. In the latter case, the envelope points and
segments will reflect the actual decibel levels. In the former case, the
values displayed will be relative to the track fader level.
There are a number of preferences settings on other pages that will
affect your envelopes and their behavior. You should be aware of these:
Project, Track/Send Defaults:
Whether by default to show for new tracks one or more of the following
envelopes – volume, pan, volume (pre FX), pan (pre FX), mute
Default envelope point shape
Default automation mode
Appearance:
Whether to show tooltips with envelopes
Whether to show horizontal grid lines in automation lanes
Whether to fill automation envelopes (shade area below envelope)
Appearance, Peaks/Waveforms:
Whether to draw faint peaks in automation envelope lanes.
Tutorial: Working With Envelopes
Before moving on to looking at envelope management actions and how these
can be applied to a custom toolbar or custom menu, here is a brief
tutorial that reviews some of the envelope basics. Even if you think you
don't need it, take the time to work thru it. You just might learn
something that you didn't already know! Hopefully this will help you to
make sense of what follows.
1.Open the supplied file WastingTime121.RPPand save it as
WastingTime122.RPP.
2.Select the Guitarsfolder and add a volume envelope. The default
keyboard shortcut is V; or you can click on the envelope button;
(currently labelled trim to do this).
3.Make a time selection of the musical break that runs from about 1 min
14 to about 1 min 40.
4.Select the envelope and use the envelope fader; (in the track's
envelope panel) to raise this portion of the envelope by about 1.5 dB.
5.You might think that this envelope doesn't really need its own lane.
Right-click on the envelope and untick the option Show envelope in lane.
6.The problem now is that we no longer have an envelope fader or visible
envelope panel. We'll address this problem when we look at menu/toolbar
customization.
7.Now select the Vocal male track and add a Pan envelope; (P). Adjust
this so that when there is no female vocal present this track is moved
closer to the center (see below).
8.On the Transport Bar, right click over the first button (this is the
Global Auto button) and choose Read (play all folders with armed
envelopes)as your global over-ride mode.
9.Play the song. The faders on those tracks with envelopes will move
with the envelopes.
10.Set global auto over-ride back to No Global Override; (from the
transport toolbar, as in step 8.)
11.Now select the Vocals Reverb track and right-click over its envelope
button to set its mode to Latch. Ensure the track controls are visible
and identify the ReaVerbate: Wetbutton. We are going to use this to turn
up the reverb a little near the end of the song.
12.Position the play cursor at about 2 min 07 sec and start to play the
song. When it gets t0 2 min 20 sec, raise the wet level to about -4.0 db.
13.Stop the song at the end. Your track control movements have been
recorded as an envelope.
14.Set the automation mode for this track to Trim/Read and disable the
option to show this envelope in a lane.
15.Select the Guitarsfolder. Right-click over the FX button and select
the chorus plug-in to display it.
16.Click on the rotary wet/dry mix control; (next to the 4 in 4 out pin
connector) then on Param then in Show track envelope to set up a track
envelope.
17.Make the same time selection as in step 3. and use the envelope lane
horizontal fader to raise this to 20%
18.Close the chorus window.
19.Save the file.
20.Notice that when you play back, even in Trim/Read mode, the track
control for the wet reverb level will move as the level is adjusted.
You might have found some of those steps a bit fiddly. We are now going
to see how custom actions, menus and toolbars can be made to make them a
little easier.
12.3Envelope Actions
If you open the action list and type “envelope” in the filter box you'll
see that there is no shortage of actions available for managing
envelopes. Most of them fall into one of a number of categories (such as
actions for setting point shape, actions for displaying/hiding envelope,
and so on) but there are also a few that deserve singling out
individually. Here are some of the main categories.
Set track automation mode
Set global automation override
Cut/copy/paste point actions (e.g. selected points, points within time
selection)
Delete points (e.g. selected points, points within time selection)
Insert point
Invert selected points
Reduce number of points
Move points (selected) up/down/left/right
Hide/show envelopes (e.g. all tracks, selected tracks)
Set default point shape
Set shape of selected points
Lock/unlock envelopes
Here are some of the actions which merit an individual mention:
Envelope: Clear envelope: can be used to remove all envelope points and
optionally also remove the envelope.
Envelope: Insert 4 envelope points at time selection: when the envelope
is shown in its own lane, moving the fader in the envelope panel does
this automatically as it raises or lowers the portion of the envelope
that falls within the time selection. This action is useful when the
envelope is not shown in its own lane but is above the media item(s).
Envelope: Reduce number of points: good for tidying up an envelope in
those situations when writing automation data has produced an envelope
with too many points.
Envelope: Reset selected points to zero/center: especially good for
cleaning up mistakes!
FX: Show/hide track envelope for last touched FX parameter: simply a
brilliant way to add envelopes direct from an FX window parameter
controls; or from track controls.
Most of these actions can also be found on the Envelope segment and/or
Envelope point context menus.
I would definitely suggest that you consider adding; Envelope: Insert 4
envelope points at time selection; to the Envelope segment context menu.
12.4A Custom Envelope Management Toolbar
Below is shown a suggested possible toolbar that you could use when
working with envelopes. As with other custom toolbars, your choice of
which actions to include will be a personal one. For example, I have not
included any actions for copying and pasting envelope points because I
seldom need to do this.
In view of the explanations on the previous page, many of these require
no further comment. However, you might wish to note these:
Track automation mode.
Four actions are included to easily select automation mode for
individual tracks.
Global override.
I often like to set global override mode to read to check on automation
activity during playback, or to trim/read for making adjustments. The
action to set global override off will return track automation modes to
their individual settings.
Locking.
Being able to toggle the locking of envelopes helps to prevent
accidental changes from being made to envelopes. Envelope locking will
only be applied if global locking is enabled; (main toolbar).
Envelope: Unselect all points.
If you have your Envelope segment mouse modifiers set up as in the
example in Chapter 2 (section 2.7) then you can use Alt+double-click to
unselect all envelope points. It doesn't do any harm to also have a
button for this.
Envelope lane toggle actions.
These are a great help with your management of screen real estate: show
the envelopes in lanes when you are working on them, remove the lanes
when you are not. See note below.
Envelope show/hide actions.
Again, this one is very much about real estate management: these actions
give you fingertip control!
Note:Here is an interesting variation. You can create a custom action
which will toggle all envelopes on all tracks in and out of lanes, then
assign this action to your toolbar. Here are the actions that you will
need to include in your custom action:
SWS: Save current track selectionTrack: Select all tracksEnvelope:
Toggle display all visible envelopes in lanes for tracksSWS: Restore
saved track selection
12.5Envelope Management Resources
A toolbar similar to that created in the above tutorial is included with
your resource material. The file is called
UnlockedAutomation01.ReaperMenu. It is located in the
\Resources\Toolbars folder.
If you import it as it is, it will be imported into REAPER as Floating
Toolbar 6. You will need (in the Customize menus/toolbars window) to
select Floating Toolbar 6 before importing it. If you wish to keep your
present floating toolbar 6 and import this as something else (e.g.
Floating Toolbar 7), simply do this before importing it.
1.Open the file with any text editor (such as Notepad or PSPad).
2.Edit the first line, from [Floating toolbar 6] to [Floating toolbar 7]
(or whatever).
3.Save the file.
4.Import the modified file in the usual way.

Automation envelopes are used to save and replay movements of track and
FX parameters during playback.
?These changes can be added to envelopes manually (using the mouse) in
Read mode, or written to envelopes as you adjust the track and FX
parameter controls themselves, either with a mouse or using a control
surface device (in Write, Latch or Touch mode).
?The differences between the different automation modes are summarized
in the table below.
?In Write, Touch and Latch modes, any FX parameter rack controls that
have been added to the track panel (in TCP or Mixer view) can be used to
write automation.
?Regardless of which method you use to create your envelopes, they can
be afterwards be adjusted and edited either manually; (Read mode); or by
further tweaking the track control parameter; (Touch or Latch modes).
?Envelopes can be displayed either in individual lanes or above the
media item itself.
Automation Mode
Description
Trim/Read
Existing envelopes are applied, but on-screen controls do not move.
Trim/Read mode might seem strange at first, but it does bring you a
useful benefit. You can use a track’s controls for overall changes.
For example, adjusting a track’s Volume fader in this mode will raise or
lower the volume for that whole track relative to the envelope. In
Trim/Read mode fader movements are not recorded: they are adjusted in
the same way as when no envelope is present.
Read
Applies envelopes and moves controls for armed items; but does not write
or remember any changes that you make to them.
Latch
Writes and remembers any changes that you make using the parameter
controls (for example, an FX parameter fader control), and creates new
points on existing track envelopes. Changes commence when you first
adjust a setting, and continue to be remembered until playback stops.
Touch
This is similar to Latch, but stops making changes to envelope points
when you stop adjusting them.
Write
Writes and remembers current settings as edit points, along with any
changes that you make to parameter values for armed items during playback.
In this mode, previously written envelopes for armed items will be over
written.REAPER's Envelope preferences include an option to automatically
switch to another mode immediately after recording automation in Write
mode. By default, it will switch to Trim/Read.
If you are unsure about any of these basic issues you can find out more
by consulting the User Guide.
Parameter modulation works on a different principle. It does not record
and replay absolute value for a track or FX parameter, but rather uses
the value of one parameter to control another dynamically and in real
time. For example, parameter modulation can be used to automatically
increase a compressor's compression ratio on a vocal as that vocal gets
louder, and to decrease it as it gets quieter.
12.2Envelope Preferences
The Envelope preferences settings are described in the User Guide
(Chapter 19). As you check thru them (either in the guide or in the
above screenshot), a reasonably experienced user will find that many of
them should require no further explanation. However, some of these
options, though important, are quite subtle and their reason for being
there might not be so obvious. For example:
Envelope point selection follows time selection for the active envelope
In most cases I would recommend enabling this option. This will ensure
that when you make a change to your time selection, envelope points
within the new time selection will automatically be selected on the
active envelope.
This is illustrated below. Notice how when the time selection is
changed, so is the envelope point selection.
Notice how when the time selection is changed, so are the selected
points on the currently selected envelope.
This is very handy for those times when you want to adjust together a
range of envelope points in a particular part of your project.
Add edge points when moving envelope points
This setting determines how REAPER behaves when you move a range of
envelope points. It can be used to resolve the question of whether the
transition should become a smooth one or a sudden one.
This really is one of those cases where a picture is worth a thousand words:
In the first (top) picture, a group of four envelope points have been
selected/
In the second (middle) picture, the segment between the second and third
selected point has been lowered, with the option to add edge points enabled.
In the third (bottom) picture, the same segment has been moved, but this
time with this option disabled.
Just as important as the envelope preference setting here are your mouse
modifier preferences for Envelope segment left drag.
Shown here, assuming that in your preferences you have turned this
option off, you can still use Shift Altwhen dragging to over-ride the
normal default setting.
When adding volume/pan envelopes, apply trim to envelope and reset trim.
This is not an easy one to explain. Take your time to understand it: if
you work with volume and/or pan envelopes you will find it useful.
Let's take the track shown here as an example. It's a reverb bus.
Notice, as is not uncommon with such busses, that the volume fader has
been set to quite a low level.
Let's assume that this preference option is set to Never. This is what
happens when we add a volume envelope.
The envelope displays 0.00 dB: this is relative to the track volume
fader. It is located vertically at the mid-way point of the envelope
lane. Another way of thinking about it is to say that the envelope
setting is currently the same as the track fader. If you raise the
envelope by, say 5 dB for part of the song, then that 5 dB will be a 5
dB increase on whatever the track fader reads. This method of working
makes it easy to make adjustments above and below the envelope.
In this second example, the preference is set to Always. The envelope
displays the real decibel setting – in this example -23.5 dB – whilst
the track volume fader now reads 0.0 dB. Any adjustments that you make
to the envelope will be shown on that envelope – and any adjustments
that you make to the track volume fader will be relative to the envelope.
Note that in both cases, adjusting the envelope lane fader will affect
the volume for the whole track. In both cases, the envelope will be
physically moved up or down. In the latter case, the envelope points and
segments will reflect the actual decibel levels. In the former case, the
values displayed will be relative to the track fader level.
There are a number of preferences settings on other pages that will
affect your envelopes and their behavior. You should be aware of these:
Project, Track/Send Defaults:
Whether by default to show for new tracks one or more of the following
envelopes – volume, pan, volume (pre FX), pan (pre FX), mute
Default envelope point shape
Default automation mode
Appearance:
Whether to show tooltips with envelopes
Whether to show horizontal grid lines in automation lanes
Whether to fill automation envelopes (shade area below envelope)
Appearance, Peaks/Waveforms:
Whether to draw faint peaks in automation envelope lanes.
Tutorial: Working With Envelopes
Before moving on to looking at envelope management actions and how these
can be applied to a custom toolbar or custom menu, here is a brief
tutorial that reviews some of the envelope basics. Even if you think you
don't need it, take the time to work thru it. You just might learn
something that you didn't already know! Hopefully this will help you to
make sense of what follows.
1.Open the supplied file WastingTime121.RPPand save it as
WastingTime122.RPP.
2.Select the Guitarsfolder and add a volume envelope. The default
keyboard shortcut is V; or you can click on the envelope button;
(currently labelled trim to do this).
3.Make a time selection of the musical break that runs from about 1 min
14 to about 1 min 40.
4.Select the envelope and use the envelope fader; (in the track's
envelope panel) to raise this portion of the envelope by about 1.5 dB.
5.You might think that this envelope doesn't really need its own lane.
Right-click on the envelope and untick the option Show envelope in lane.
6.The problem now is that we no longer have an envelope fader or visible
envelope panel. We'll address this problem when we look at menu/toolbar
customization.
7.Now select the Vocal male track and add a Pan envelope; (P). Adjust
this so that when there is no female vocal present this track is moved
closer to the center (see below).
8.On the Transport Bar, right click over the first button (this is the
Global Auto button) and choose Read (play all folders with armed
envelopes)as your global over-ride mode.
9.Play the song. The faders on those tracks with envelopes will move
with the envelopes.
10.Set global auto over-ride back to No Global Override; (from the
transport toolbar, as in step 8.)
11.Now select the Vocals Reverb track and right-click over its envelope
button to set its mode to Latch. Ensure the track controls are visible
and identify the ReaVerbate: Wetbutton. We are going to use this to turn
up the reverb a little near the end of the song.
12.Position the play cursor at about 2 min 07 sec and start to play the
song. When it gets t0 2 min 20 sec, raise the wet level to about -4.0 db.
13.Stop the song at the end. Your track control movements have been
recorded as an envelope.
14.Set the automation mode for this track to Trim/Read and disable the
option to show this envelope in a lane.
15.Select the Guitarsfolder. Right-click over the FX button and select
the chorus plug-in to display it.
16.Click on the rotary wet/dry mix control; (next to the 4 in 4 out pin
connector) then on Param then in Show track envelope to set up a track
envelope.
17.Make the same time selection as in step 3. and use the envelope lane
horizontal fader to raise this to 20%
18.Close the chorus window.
19.Save the file.
20.Notice that when you play back, even in Trim/Read mode, the track
control for the wet reverb level will move as the level is adjusted.
You might have found some of those steps a bit fiddly. We are now going
to see how custom actions, menus and toolbars can be made to make them a
little easier.
12.3Envelope Actions
If you open the action list and type “envelope” in the filter box you'll
see that there is no shortage of actions available for managing
envelopes. Most of them fall into one of a number of categories (such as
actions for setting point shape, actions for displaying/hiding envelope,
and so on) but there are also a few that deserve singling out
individually. Here are some of the main categories.
Set track automation mode
Set global automation override
Cut/copy/paste point actions (e.g. selected points, points within time
selection)
Delete points (e.g. selected points, points within time selection)
Insert point
Invert selected points
Reduce number of points
Move points (selected) up/down/left/right
Hide/show envelopes (e.g. all tracks, selected tracks)
Set default point shape
Set shape of selected points
Lock/unlock envelopes
Here are some of the actions which merit an individual mention:
Envelope: Clear envelope: can be used to remove all envelope points and
optionally also remove the envelope.
Envelope: Insert 4 envelope points at time selection: when the envelope
is shown in its own lane, moving the fader in the envelope panel does
this automatically as it raises or lowers the portion of the envelope
that falls within the time selection. This action is useful when the
envelope is not shown in its own lane but is above the media item(s).
Envelope: Reduce number of points: good for tidying up an envelope in
those situations when writing automation data has produced an envelope
with too many points.
Envelope: Reset selected points to zero/center: especially good for
cleaning up mistakes!
FX: Show/hide track envelope for last touched FX parameter: simply a
brilliant way to add envelopes direct from an FX window parameter
controls; or from track controls.
Most of these actions can also be found on the Envelope segment and/or
Envelope point context menus.
I would definitely suggest that you consider adding; Envelope: Insert 4
envelope points at time selection; to the Envelope segment context menu.
12.4A Custom Envelope Management Toolbar
Below is shown a suggested possible toolbar that you could use when
working with envelopes. As with other custom toolbars, your choice of
which actions to include will be a personal one. For example, I have not
included any actions for copying and pasting envelope points because I
seldom need to do this.
In view of the explanations on the previous page, many of these require
no further comment. However, you might wish to note these:
Track automation mode.
Four actions are included to easily select automation mode for
individual tracks.
Global override.
I often like to set global override mode to read to check on automation
activity during playback, or to trim/read for making adjustments. The
action to set global override off will return track automation modes to
their individual settings.
Locking.
Being able to toggle the locking of envelopes helps to prevent
accidental changes from being made to envelopes. Envelope locking will
only be applied if global locking is enabled; (main toolbar).
Envelope: Unselect all points.
If you have your Envelope segment mouse modifiers set up as in the
example in Chapter 2 (section 2.7) then you can use Alt+double-click to
unselect all envelope points. It doesn't do any harm to also have a
button for this.
Envelope lane toggle actions.
These are a great help with your management of screen real estate: show
the envelopes in lanes when you are working on them, remove the lanes
when you are not. See note below.
Envelope show/hide actions.
Again, this one is very much about real estate management: these actions
give you fingertip control!
Note:Here is an interesting variation. You can create a custom action
which will toggle all envelopes on all tracks in and out of lanes, then
assign this action to your toolbar. Here are the actions that you will
need to include in your custom action:
SWS: Save current track selectionTrack: Select all tracksEnvelope:
Toggle display all visible envelopes in lanes for tracksSWS: Restore
saved track selection
12.5Envelope Management Resources
A toolbar similar to that created in the above tutorial is included with
your resource material. The file is called
UnlockedAutomation01.ReaperMenu. It is located in the
\Resources\Toolbars folder.
If you import it as it is, it will be imported into REAPER as Floating
Toolbar 6. You will need (in the Customize menus/toolbars window) to
select Floating Toolbar 6 before importing it. If you wish to keep your
present floating toolbar 6 and import this as something else (e.g.
Floating Toolbar 7), simply do this before importing it.
1.Open the file with any text editor (such as Notepad or PSPad).
2.Edit the first line, from [Floating toolbar 6] to [Floating toolbar 7]
(or whatever).
3.Save the file.
4.Import the modified file in the usual way. end snip.

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