[RWP] automation

[Indigo]

Alt+up/down arrow  is just not a very practical shortcut to use.
I'll look for a way to increase the increments, but I'd rather use any 
of several mice around here that are still in their original plastic 
wrappers, or, even better, a control surface knob.
You said it was painful to browse through the action list; with only 
4000 native actions?
I can't imagine why?
At the top of the display, after pressing F4; there's a search box.
Type in Track volume and press enter.
Tab down to the list below the catagories, and you hopefully will get 
the Track Set volume of Track 1 through track Set Volume of Track 99
These can only be assigned to a midi CC message, so when you click on 
the add shortcut field; wiggle  the fader on your keyboard, or try one 
of the faders on the Peavey.
If it works, you can change a track's volume as fast as you like.
Back at the selected track, just set Automation mode to write, hit enter 
and have fun tweaking volume rapidly with your control surface.
Why do anything a harder way?
Believe me, in my youth I tried horses, and I loved wearing boots and 
saying gitty up; but they're a pain in the butt.
It's a romantic ecological idea; but they bite; they kick; and they're 
much labor to groom and feed.
An automobile is way superior for getting around.
  Actually; horse farts add as much carbon dioxide to the atmosphere as 
a car's exhaust, and in the early day of autos; about  as many people 
were killed by horse kicks as died in autos.
My wife was kicked in the head by our 3 year old mare in heat; when we 
unexpectedly ran across a couple of stallians; who decided to battle for 
the mare's  hand in horse marriage.
It was like a scene from a John Wayne western; whinneying; biting and 
kicking going on everywhere.
Indi



On 5/28/2013 9:22 PM, Jim Snowbarger wrote:
> Yep, I held it down, and my key repeat is very fast.
> The problem is that they change one key makes is 0.05 DB.  That is just
> insanely small.  nobody, not even you guys with good ears can hear that.
> That's why I was seeking an action that moved in 1DB steps.  But, my
> twenty nudge commands were so slow that, while you got more action per
> key press, holding the key down was still ramping at about 10 db per
> second.
> That's still pretty sluggish.
> I'm still looking for the SWS item that lets you specify how much to
> move the fader.
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 10:08 PM
> Subject: [RWP] automation
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>> 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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