[RWP] How to access effect parameters?

[Scott Chesworth]

Hi Crystal,

What you're seeing is a source of frequent annoyance. Basically, when
you hit Shift+P, ReaAccess is tapping into the automation values that
would ordinarily be meant for a control surface or the like. Because
those control surfaces are machines, they don't really care about
real-world values in DB, they only need a way to transmit what
position a knob or fader is being moved to, and an incremental number
is as good a way as any of keeping track of that. I do sometimes come
across plugins that expose real-world values via automation, and in
those cases you'll get numbers that you're more used to seeing. How
the plugs expose their automation values seems to be dependent on
whatever framework or library the developer has used to build their
plug, so if there's a plugin you really like, it might be worth an
email to the developer to ask whether there's anything they can do to
send automation data that's more understandable by humans. For what
it's worth, most of the stock plugs in Reaper send stuff that makes
sense using them via Shift+P. When you're working with a plugin that
doesn't, it's back to the age old substitute of listening hard to find
out what's going on I'm afraid :)

HTH clear things up a bit.

Scott

On 5/6/14, Crystal Dennis <valkyriecelesyt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks.  That worked.  Another question now:  The values are different
> then what I'm used to seeing:  Are the parameters shown in DB values
> and I'm just not used to seeing it written that way?  I'm used to
> seeing -12 and things like that and instead it's saying 0.62, 0.50 and
> stuff.  Sorry if this is a noob question!
>
> On 5/5/14, Matt Turner <meturner2214 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, shift+p should do it.
>> On 5/5/2014 8:12 PM, Crystal Dennis wrote:
>>> Sorry if this is a question that's been answered before but I've
>>> searched through the archives and can't find an answer.
>>>
>>> I've been trying to access the parameters of...any plug in really:
>>> not the ones that come with Reaper, but some that I added, and I can't
>>> see anywhere to mess with the parameters (ratio and threshold on
>>> compresser, the bands on EQ etc).  I use JAWS 10 and have been looking
>>> around both with tab and the JAWS cursor, but can't find anywhere to
>>> adjust those things.  Can someone help with what I should be doing?  I
>>> just use F to add the plug then look at that window:  is that not the
>>> right way to be able to adjust parameters?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Crystal
>>>
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