[RWP] How to access effect parameters?

[Crystal Dennis]

Ah man that is unfortunate :( Yeah I just tried it with a reaper plug
and it shows normal DB values.  Lame cuz I love my external freebies
plugs lol.  I was working in audacity before though and refused to use
any of their built in plugs (so terrible!) But I think reaper probably
has a lot better built-in features, so time to crack down and use it
for more than just recording!  Thanks so much for the help!

On 5/6/14, Scott Chesworth <scottchesworth at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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