[RWP] automation

[Indigo]

I'm rusty on those control surface button modes, but whatever mode will 
toggle off and on; then assign it with midi learn from the action list 
dialog; where you assign the shortcut.
I know for certain that mute track 1 through some number like mute track 
32; is near the end of the actions list, assignable to a midi message.

Wouldn't that work?
You know, I wouldn't personally care much about muting tracks from a 
control surface when it's so easy from the qwerty keyboard, which is 
just another form of control surface.
That's why I'm being slow about creating all kinds of editing macros.
Until I know Reaper 100 percent, I like to work from the qwerty 
keyboard; with actions already provided.
Eventually I'll find oft repeated editing actions to run with macros.
First, I'd like to learn what's already done with SWS and Xenakio actions.
The newest Reaper version provides grid lines set from transcients, 
which Reason 7 also just provided.
Never mind that Acid Pro assigned beat and measure lines to any piece of 
music  wonderfully a decade ago, or that Cubase did it with Beat 
Detective for many versions now; I want to try out Reaper v4.4402's 
offering; with hopes it's finally a simple audio quantizer.
Indi


On 5/28/2013 1:04 AM, Patrick Perdue wrote:
> On that note, how about recording track mutes in automation? I can't
> manage to do this even with a control surface using Reaper 3.78, and I
> have seen forums referencing people doing this even with older versions
> than that.
>
> On 5/27/2013 11:08 PM, Indigo wrote:
>> Something must have got corrupted in the Reaper x86 version 4.4402 I
>> keep on this machine, only for reference, so I reverted it back to
>> factory specs and uninstalled and reinstalled it, just to be 150 percent
>> certain.
>> Now it loads the plugsit wouldn't before, and write and read automation
>> work as expected from alt+up/down arrows.
>> When you tried alt+up or down, did you try standing on the up down arrow
>> to get quick changes
>> I mean it's not super quick, but it's at least as fast a slope for
>> fadeout as anybody would ordinarily use for a fadeout or fade in.
>> In a couple of seconds I'm getting up around plus 20 and 30db, same with
>> holding the down arrow..
>> I didn't time it, but I could probably get to silence around minus 70db
>> in five or six seconds, maybe less.
>> I had the same experience here as others, I couldn't tell that read mode
>> was recording anything.
>> Touch mode also didn't seem to record.
>> I wasn't totally certain about latch mode; once I thought it did, then I
>> couldn't replicate that.
>> Next time I'll try touch and latch, then look at undo to learn if it's
>> saying undo automation?
>> Maybe touch and latch are recording, but the recorded envelope is not
>> playing back, because of some setting I don't know about.
>> Also, for some reason the clear envelope points and other useful actions
>> in track view/envelope subMenu are disabled.
>> I couldn't find any way to enable them.
>> I ran a clear envelope points action directly from the actions list, no
>> joy.
>> Yes, no need to activate volume in the envelope subMenu, it's
>> automatically activated when you use alt+up arrow.
>>
>>
>> Even standing on the button, , no way that clunky alt+up arrow is gonna
>> be a tenth as agile as even the simplest fader on any old piece of gear.
>> It's that old common sense sales pitch they use to sell you a control
>> surface, would you rather crunch numbers or get real world hands on
>> control of your music?
>> Indi
>>
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