You can actually add the plugin to the actions window by just clicking create shortcut like you did in the video but Instead of clicking ok, click cancel. Now you will have no more needs to delete the commands and the plugin will still be there in the actions window. Awesome vid as always!
For your custom script you can use chatGPT because it knows about all scripting languages and their Reaper APIs. Great way to get started with a custom script starting with a formulated idea.
6:13 I'm looking at this as somekind of a "shortcut" panel. I know you like the "hands on" type of things, but a panel like this, if integrated in the software looks like a great thing. You still have to use the mouse though.
This is like a touch style version of the Reaper toolbar. The mouse still works for me, but my goofing around isn't as complex as your work is. I might just get a Streamdeck because I like to push buttons. 🤪
As for the mute or delete icons for say FX or whatever, how about "FX" with a red line across it for mute and "FX" with a red circle with a line across it for delete....
It’s really funny how on one side we have AI that can determine semantics and on the other hand we have to still wrestle with stuff like this all the time cause apparently just no one has ever done this before for whatever reason. Like flying rockets to mars before inventing bicycles
For me, using osc or midi commands bypass window focus. For instance the hotkeys for media explorer are different from the main window. If you happen to be focused on explorer your streamdeck button will not behave as expected. Some plugins interfaces absorb keystrokes, rendering many hotkeys useless. Using osc or midi is absolute, the command triggers the action no matter what the focused window. When I hit record I want it to record, no matter what.
Since you'll always be sending audio to hardware, and never recording from a hardware input, why not create a custom action that will do all your output routing and your solo safe and then recall a track template with that specific input and already record armed? That way with one single button you'd be setting outputs and then recalling inputs. If you don't like the idea of a track template you can just insert a new track below the selected track, then set all its inputs. Basically all those actions you're doing via Companion condensed into one single custom action.
Very nice, wytse! I have streamdeck but i havent been able to get state feedback from reaper to my streamdeck. But ddidnlt know companion so will try that.
I'll try when I'm back in the studio. It is possible to have this with OSC. I did work with TOUCHOSC for a while and there it works fine but I hate it when you can also touch the glass surface.
LOL cute new title. I've been mixing live since the 80s, and have an MCU and Maschine Jam in Live. Wanna race a mix? ;) I can mix it as fast as you can play it lol.
These tasks just scream AI to me in stead of having to program and route everything on companion. It is baffles me how we spend billions letting AI do all kinds of complex tasks when there is so much low hanging fruit like this
No, the task he painstakingly programmed in the streamdeck. Simple tasks like these could easily be taken over by AI and take away all the clicking, selecting ect. Just tell the system what you want, a bit like co -pilote does in MS 365@@mthomas1091
Omg, Reaper has a Mixer Window like Pro Tools? I'm fucking switching! Hate Cubase setup is too cluttered and you can't switch it. I want 2 seperate edit and mix windows since I grew up on and, learned on, and mixed on PT for years and years and years(it was the only one for 30yrs about.
Well you can have up to 4 different mix windows in Cubase and all can be moved whereever you want (I have always one on a different monitor) and also can have a different configuration at least in the Pro version. And you get also the control room which can help a lot e.g. you can put plugins like MixChecker or SoundIDReference or what ever on the control room instead on your master bus. Thus you will never forget to disable them when you export the mixdown!!! So think about it. :)
But you can have a separate Mixer Window? Mine is and always was on a separate monitor. Heck I use 3 different mixer setups in various sizes at one aka. Stems, Buses, and Master buses on separate windows for a massive control freak like myself lol!
The ability to add a plugin to a selected track in reaper is fucking amazing. Also the comment event. Cubase has notes as I'm sure other daws do but just in a little note tab on the channel and not IN the project timeline where you actually fucking need it hahah. Reapers doing so many things right.
I have a RME UFX III. What is your opinion on the Ferrofish Pulse 16MX for getting extra I/O for hardware inserts or do you think there is something better to use?
Nowhere near as fancy but I use a novation pad mini for similar features. Linked up to auto hot key scripts it works pretty well for opening plugins and windows and all sorts of goodness
I grabbed the phone app, because I have a folding phone, and I thought I was good, but then I just kept having to re-open the app anytime I left it. I admit you are indeed mixing faster than me
Could you let me know how you set up the Reaper button? I can set up buttons when reaper is running but is there a way companion could connect to the OS?
Thanks for the video. Thinking of either getting the stream deck xl or possibly the stream deck + (maybe the knobs can be helpful for some stuff). Can you elaborate which action is the "release solo" one? I can't find it under that name in the Reaper action list and I'm struggling to find a similar action.
Icon came out with a line up of daw controllers that have all the usual things like transport controls and motorized faders. But they also added a section that’s basically a stream deck built in. Giving you over 80 extra assignable buttons that can be named just like the stream deck. 5 banks of 16 to 24 led buttons depending on the unit you choose. As much as I like ssl’s, I think the icon v1-m and the MP Midi you reviewed a while ago may be the best controller set up to date. Simply because of how universal they are.
Check if a track has any media on it: -- Get the selected track local track = reaper.GetSelectedTrack(0, 0) -- Assuming the first selected track if track then -- Check if the track contains any media items local numItems = reaper.CountTrackMediaItems(track) if numItems > 0 then -- Track has media items reaper.ShowMessageBox("Track has media items.", "Track Check", 0) else -- Track is empty reaper.ShowMessageBox("Track is empty.", "Track Check", 0) end else -- No track selected reaper.ShowMessageBox("No track selected.", "Track Check", 0) end
