[RWP] automation

[Chris Belle]

That's just ridiculous though, having to extend an envelope and fill to the 
end of a track.

To me, that's like bad design.

How would you like to twist a knob on your board and when you let go it went 
back to where it was before you touched it?

Reaper looses the vote on that particular feature.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 2:18 AM
Subject: Re: [RWP] automation


> You have an action in the Reaper actions list, brought up with F4; that 
> writes the current envelope levels to the end of project.
> In the search edit box at the top of the actions list you can type in 
> automation write and you'll get only automation actions in the list you 
> tab down to.
> Arrow down in that list field.
>
> After selecting that action to fill the remaining part of the track with 
> the current written levels; assign a shortcut to that action.
>
> On 5/28/2013 5:18 AM, Derek Lane wrote:
>> Write, latch and touch record with the keyboard.
>> I can get volume and pan to record, but nothing else.  Also, the instant
>> I press stop, the volume/pan resets to the project settings.  Short of
>> playing the project to its end, I know of no other way to make something
>> move and stay.
>> I could record a demo if anyone would like.
>>
>>
>> On 5/28/2013 2:18 AM, Chris Belle wrote:
>>> Not managed to do that either, tried turning on write and doing f5 and
>>> then switching to read like I did with the pan and volume but it won't
>>> work the same way.
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Perdue" 
>>> <patrick at pdaudio.net>
>>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 12:04 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [RWP] automation
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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