If you want to make this the default when double cklicking a midi item: 1) Open a text editor, paste the code below and save it with the extension .lua in the reaper "scripts" folder. (i.e. midi_autozoom.lua): reaper.Undo_BeginBlock() reaper.Main_OnCommand(40528, 0) -- select item hwnd = reaper.MIDIEditor_GetActive() -- get active MIDI editor reaper.MIDIEditor_OnCommand(hwnd, 40466) -- Zoom to content reaper.Undo_EndBlock("Script: Select Item Zoom Midi ", -1 ) 2) Create a custom action that first opens the item in the midi editor ("Item: Open in built-in Midi editor") and then executes the .lua script 3) Preferences -> Mouse modifiers -> Media Item -> double click under "default action" insert your custom action Done!
The problem with this is that you lose how you left it last time when you open it again. And you lose the functionality of double clicking an audio or video item.
@@REAPERMania Of course you're right Kenny - but you could instead put it on for example Shift & Ctrl + doubleclick which has nothing bound to it by default i believe ...
This has been one of my biggest frustration while working with midi in Reaper which is what I primarily do. It would be really nice if there could be a way to set a default zoom value in the preference in future.
Absolutely as a fellow Reaper user for many years myself it's ridiculous that there's not. I wish the coders at Reaper worked that out. The MIDI editor should feel more seamless with set track heights for docking zoom preference by default and what not and more ESPECIALLY their CC Lanes need a lot of help if you ask me, If I were them I'd take inspiration off Ableton Live and sort that out ASAP, because for real even if a session is going smooth you open that CC lane and you try to do anything in there feels like you jumped into some sort of beta version of a DAW from the 90's, incredibly clunky and not intuitive at all It's insane..... We are on Reaper 7 and we don't have an overhaul on that yet? Maybe Kenny can relay the message? Great Video as always, Kenny if not for you I'd imagine there would be way more frustration in the Reaper community and more switching over to other DAWS. Just know you're very much appreciated.
Thanks for doing this video. This shows exactly why the defaults of REAPER's MIDI Editor are flawed. A perfect solution are FeedTheCat's scripts. However, this should really be fixed on a native basis.
Nice tip Kenny. However I wonder, is there any way of making such behavior as "default" each time the MIDI editor is "open" (on any track)? Maybe suggest such behavior as an option (preferences) to cockos?
Great tip! Now for drums, what would make this even more powerful is to provide a button that shows only the notes that have been played (hiding all the unplayed ones). There's a function that does that.
Thanks! But there's a better and easier solution: Archie _Var Toggle Midi editor and zoom to content by item. lua sth like that. Find it and install and then in Mouse Modifiers settings - Context "Media item" double click and as the Default action pick the Archie script from the action list. Voilà! And now every time you double click the midi item you have it open in a proper way without having to commit other actions.
Great stuff as usual, thank you. I liked the default icon on the tool bar ' Zoom to con'. Is there a way to turn it off? In other words go back to the previous view? The other buttons allow you to click on and off.
Thank you Kenny - For all your videos. Could you tell the Reaper guys to implement a preference to force that behaviour as a default? I know, I'm not the only one with this wish...
Ah yes that's great indeed. I have to implement it too. It will save me a lot of time and swearing when I have to zoom it all :-D it should be natively present that button 🙂
Good tip, as always. 😀What I generally hate in all programs is when you drag a selection too close to the edge and - whoosh - the application scrolls all the way to Antarctica. I was able to turn this off in Photoshop. There it is called "overscrolling". Unfortunately, I haven't found anything similar in Reaper yet. Does anyone know anything?
@REAPERMania This does not work as I want. I resolved with action View: Zoom Out Project. But unfortunately it only zooms out horizontally. I would like to zoom the whole project to completely fit to screen.
Hi Kenny. very useful video, as usual. What's the horizontal keyboard at the bottom of the screen? It's an external plugin, right? Which one? Thanks giorgio
Many musicians prefer to use the notation staff view for editing midi data. One frustrating aspect of Reaper is having to zoom in enough to see the staff view clearly. I haven't tried the recommendations yet in the video but will those recommendations work with the notation view?
How, when you record the piano, the notes are rectangular blocks, but when you record the drums, they are triangles? Is there a default action for that also please?
@@REAPERMania When using custom actions to slow down scrolling speed, it just makes me have to scroll way too much--and it's still jumpy. This isn't the case at all with my Windows laptop trackpad, so I wish it would work on my mouse. Clearly a hardware dependent behavior
Hey there Kenny, awesome video as always!! I got a question regarding headphone mixes and irs driving me nuts bc it seems reaper is lacking that (for me) essential feature When i am sending my signals to a cue Bus which sends to a Headphone amp via Hardware output, i set the sends Pre fader (obviously) but it seems that as soon as i send something via a Bus, the Solo button affects the Headphone mix So if I'm recording, and i want to listen to something in solo in the control room, it affects the artists mix as well, and thats a bummer. I know you have a way to work around this issue but i was wondering if there is a solution for the problem i have or if it needs some fixing :) Cheers!
And....... why is the default better than having to expand it every time even with a shortcut? Those users who enjoy the tiny midi screen have had it too good for too long. Those of us who need to see what we are doing straight away look forward to our time in the sun.
Imagine the default was Kenny's shortcut. Then Kenny releases a video "How to make your Reaper midi screen look worse" to make it look like the default....
When I try to add the action to my toolbar (I have customized it before without any difficulty) I do not get a live SELECT button; mine stays grayed out and I am unable to add anything to it I have Reaper 7.11 - could this be a bug? Anybody else experiencing this?
It actually looks a lot like his midi editor. The beakers even look like the triangles of drum mode. Weirdly a very clever abstract thumbnail! Edit: upon closer look, there are definitely signs of AI art. The thermometer lmao. Oh well, it's a thumbnail.