[RWP] A workflow for fake automating groups of tracks or folders

[Derek Lane]

and the only way I think we'll have that would be through a series of 
actions which would allow us to enter values for automation.
I see something like a dialog where a selection is made, an envelop is 
selected, and start and end values could be expressed in numbers or 
percentages.
How that could be edited in future?  Not sure there, so I guess that's no 
better than what access we have with control surfaces.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Perdue" <patrick at pdaudio.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 5:23 AM
Subject: Re: [RWP] A workflow for fake automating groups of tracks or 
folders


> And that works most of the time, except lately, I've noticed that, 
> completely at random, Reaper has decided to sometimes not crossfade items 
> anymore, when they overlap. It doesn't happen all the time, and sometimes, 
> the zoom ratio seems to really matter. Haven't quite pinned this down yet, 
> but every time it happens, I wish real automation worked better than it 
> does for us.
> Oh, and that's only good for one track/item at a time, otherwise, the 
> entire thing gets really messy.
> Short of rendering out "stems" of folders and using some fake tracks... 
> So, yeah, back to that thing where we need real automation that works...
>
> On Oct 1, 2014, at 9:20 PM, Derek Lane <derek at pdaudio.net> wrote:
>
>> The only way I know would be to add effects to items, then grow and 
>> shrink them such that you crossfade in and out of each to produce changes 
>> of effects, volume, pan etc.
>> On 10/1/2014 6:10 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
>>> Chaps,
>>>
>>> Today, I've been mixing a song with a lot of backing vocals. No
>>> really, a lot of them. As I approached my fourth hour of slicing and
>>> dicing to tidy up the raw tracks, I found myself wondering why on
>>> Earth I don't have a workflow for fake automation on folders. Does
>>> anybody else?
>>>
>>> So far, I've tried inserting a blank item of the full length of the
>>> song onto the track that's designated as a folder in the hope that I
>>> could slice that up or apply effects to only certain items and have it
>>> apply to everything being routed through that track, but nope, Reaper
>>> temporarily forgets I'm dealing with a folder. Same unfortunate
>>> behaviour applies to an item which isn't empty, but contains a wave
>>> file that's as close to silence as I could get, so it's not the item
>>> being empty that's causing the issue, Reaper is just forgetful lol.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a method that works?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>
>>> Scott
>>>
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