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Old 09-13-2017, 05:59 AM   #133
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Certainly an attempt worth presenting to whoever will work on theme updates for Reaper 6. They might bake this in to an element of the MCP, so colouring the whole track would become less of an issue.
Absolutely agree, I'm even thinking of things like, when you hit record the TCP panel expands vertically all the tracks in record mode to give you better visual presentation of the recording waveforms.

Another one re: themes, imagine going from tracking theme to mix theme at the touch of a control surface button, and hey, this button looks like a good candidate for a phone/pad, but of course could also be a hardware surface button, all up to you.

The whole idea is to allow you to make highly customizable maps of Reaper responses to control surface input, using ALL your available surfaces -- hardware/phone/pad/web/etc. to create a large format surface made up of various software/hardware modules.

Think of a large format console, where you order by module like this:
Input Channels - 24
Aux Channels - 16
Compressors -- 4
etc.

Let's say we have the following modules:
8 Channel fader packs - 2
Softube Console 1 - 1
MCU - 1
iPhone - 1 (possibly more)
iPad - 1 (possibly more)

The whole idea of this open source project is to allow you to make a large format surface with the modules (hardware/phone/pad/web/etc.) at your disposal.

The whole reason it is open source is that there's no commercial incentive for any control surface manufacturers to want to support integration with competitors hardware and there's no consortium, so all I can say on that is... well.. donations accepted

Imagine being the drummer on a studio gig, and by launching an App on your iPad, you get automatic discovery (via bonjour, etc.) of Reaper running in the control room, it automatically sets up an OSC connection, and Voila! you have your own personal monitor mix on your iPad. That's just one example of where this is going.

OK now imagine you can have many such maps, almost like saved presets but really more like layers on a digital board, for your scenarios/workflows/setups.

As far as future work, this could be extended to other DAWS as well, but that's way down the road
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