[RWP] How to access effect parameters?

[TheOreoMonster]

yeah , don’t discredit the reaper and JSX plugins. Tons of great stuff in there.
On May 6, 2014, at 4:24 PM, Crystal Dennis <valkyriecelesyt at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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