[RWP] automation

Wed May 29 02:07:56 EDT 2013

Horse farts have more humor value though, 
'grin'.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 12:42 AM
Subject: Re: [RWP] automation

> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- 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
>>
>>
>>> 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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