[RWP] Access to VU meters on the Mac

Sun Aug 24 21:24:23 EDT 2014

Hi.
I am looking into API access to VU meters, however, so far am not able to
find any references to them in the API. I am investigating...

On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:

> It's the Matrix View loop player in Sonar 8.5.3.
> You insert almost any format of music file, speech, noises, .wav, .mp3.
> Rex Files, midi files, into cells on a matrix, like a grid of lines and
> columns.
> It's all well-labeled, and inside a cell you have a bunch of options as to
> how a loop or file plays, and a place to assign it to a key on your midi
> keyboard.
> Actually you just press a key and it gets assigned to play that loop.
> You can assign as many keys as your keyboard has.
> Since it's in Sonar, it is subject to Sonar's great specs and features
> and may also be subject to Sonar's occasional crashes as well.
> Indi
>
>
> On 8/23/2014 1:33 PM, Goldfinga Productions wrote:
>
>> What is this?
>>
>> On Aug 20, 2014, at 12:33 PM, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:
>>
>>  Nothing even close to as easy as Sonar's matrix View loop player is
>>> found in any other daw.
>>>
>>> You assign, in  a cell on the matrix grid a sample, loop, even a midi
>>> file or rex file to play from one of your midi keyboard keys, plus you can
>>> set how that key interrupts, or is interrupted by , other keys playing
>>> their loops.
>>> And, each field within a cell is labeled and reads, 100% accessible on a
>>> PC.
>>> Sonar crashes a lot, though, unless it has a powerful computer to handle
>>> all those files playing together
>>> I've run across schemes in the Cockos forums to do a few of those
>>> things, in Reaper, like assign a midi note message to trigger a sample or
>>> whatever,but Sonar's Matrix View has it all set up for you.
>>>   I'm sure they could be rewired together, with Sonar's Matrix View
>>> output feeding Reaper's track view, to record it there.
>>> Also, on my list of things to try is to assign Sound Forge as Reaper's
>>> external editor, so I can try routing a virtually finished track into Sound
>>> Forge, and render it there.
>>> Occasionally I hear tracks rendered on a PC in Sound Forge that sound as
>>> huge as they do with tracks rendered in Apple's core audio.
>>>
>>> On 8/20/2014 8:32 AM, TheOreoMonster wrote:
>>>
>>>> most of the things a sighted person clicks on or gets to from a right
>>>> click menu can be found in a menu or actions list, its just a matter of
>>>> figureing out how to re route that command to the keyboard. I don't see
>>>> why  One couldn't set reaper as one of the audio editors in sonar.  And
>>>> either using rewire or if  your interface has enough i/o you can route out
>>>> of sonar's matrix view  into tracks on reaper should you so choose. On the
>>>> mac this would be done a little easier with something like sound flower.
>>>> On Aug 20, 2014, at 5:18 AM, Indigo
>>>> <33indigo at charter.net>
>>>>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Has anyone ever tried to get Reaper assigned as Sonar's preferred
>>>>> external editor, as can be done with Sound Forge, or vice-versa, Sonar as
>>>>> Reaper's external editor, so that digital files can bve passed between them
>>>>> without rendering to audio; or is this an off-the-wall impossible idea?
>>>>> I'd love to use Sonar's matrix view to play loops, and maybe be able
>>>>> to record their output in Reaper, where I'm a little more at home with what
>>>>> I'm doing.
>>>>> Could we rewire them together, for the advantages of each?
>>>>> On 8/19/2014 6:57 PM, Victor Tsaran wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  It would be so so valuable to be able to convert Sonar project files
>>>>>> into
>>>>>> Reaper ones though.
>>>>>> :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 1:27 PM, David Eagle
>>>>>> <onlineeagle at googlemail.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Ah, thanks Indigo. This will probably be pretty helpful. I think I've
>>>>>>> managed to solve the problem I mentioned regarding pasting. I was
>>>>>>> accidentally pasting onto a seperate track and not realising.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 19 Aug 2014, at 20:49, Indigo
>>>>>>> <33indigo at charter.net>
>>>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  http://www.cockos.com/reaper/userguide/SONARtoREAPER.pdf
>>>>>>>>
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