[RWP] automation

Wed May 29 21:56:21 EDT 2013

yep, we had an old mayer here for several years that would choke down a big 
batch of her favorite weeds, and then trot trot down the road, bursting a 
brief but potent fart at every step.  Afterburner kickin in.
Ok, back to reaper.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Belle" <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 1:07 AM
Subject: Re: [RWP] automation

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