[Script] A couple of different MIDI note, CC and other scripts

[_Stevie_]

That's really strange! Can you try with a portable install? Either, there's a pref that I didn't take into account or something is wrong with your Reaper installation. I'll check on my second machine, too.

EDIT: just checked on my other machine (different prefs as on my DAW) and it works there, too.

[lowellben]

Originally Posted by _Stevie_

That's really strange! Can you try with a portable install? Either, there's a pref that I didn't take into account or something is wrong with your Reaper installation. I'll check on my second machine, too.

EDIT: just checked on my other machine (different prefs as on my DAW) and it works there, too.

I have the most boring reaper ini config setup ever, believe me I'm 99.9999999999% positive it's not my setup.
but yes I'll happily fire up a portable test. gimme a few will report back.

I am so amped to use all your MIDI scripts because literally I've waited forever for this kindathing in Reaper so I just want this magic to work )

PS. I do use SWS if that matterss.

[_Stevie_]

It really shocks me, that it's not working for you.
We'll find out what the issue is...

SWS is fine and even needed for the majority of the scripts.
So that won't be the issue.

I am so amped to use all your MIDI scripts because literally I've waited forever for this kindathing in Reaper so I just want this magic to work )

That was exactly my motivation to code them!

[lowellben]

Originally Posted by _Stevie_

It really shocks me, that it's not working for you.
We'll find out what the issue is...

SWS is fine and even needed for some of the scripts.
So that won't be the issue.




That was exactly my motivation to code them!

Ok. Ready for some good old fashioned "plot thickens"ness?

So here is what I just learned.

(forgive me I'm not a programmer)

First, after closing and opening Reaper, it SEEMS so far to be working as you intended But that leads to a point.

It seemed like Reaper had "froze" my mouse at some left-side screen point and it always thought it was there, even though I was literally mousing all over the place in the videos I made for you lol. Get this.

I confirmed this bug by hitting a contextual toolbar shortcut which only should appear when my mouse is hovered over the left sidebar piano roll and guess what. That toolbar appeared! which means in Reaper's eyes my mouse was OVER THE PIANO roll. Crazy!

So I guess it was Reaper, not you or me? :0 What do you make of that?

[_Stevie_]

I just checked with a clean portable install and everything worked fine.

Oh man, what an odyssey on your side

The mouse functions are provided by SWS, so I'm not sure if this is really a Reaper issue.
Do you use some kind of special mouse driver software or some mouse hovering tools?

[lowellben]

Originally Posted by _Stevie_

I just checked with a clean portable install and everything worked fine.

Oh man, what an odyssey on your side

The mouse functions are provided by SWS, so I'm not sure if this is really a Reaper issue.
Do you use some kind of special mouse driver software or some mouse hovering tools?

I use a 1996 keyboard with an old mouse. I am not special in any way lol.
But at least it worked after a Reaper restart but it's so strange my mouse was being "seen"" locked somewhere, hmmm. I am going to keep testing your new scripts and let you know how awesome they are That's my morning! Hopefully you won't get any more bugs from me!

[_Stevie_]

Haha, crossing my fingers! You are the 2nd person today!
I really hope we can find the culprit.

I could remove the mouse detection... But to me it seemed to be the most logical way to take care of all use cases.

The other way would be: check if the MIDI editor is open.
But what about people who have the MIDI editor always open?

[lowellben]

Originally Posted by _Stevie_

Haha, crossing my fingers! You are the 2nd person today!
I really hope we can find the culprit.

I could remove the mouse detection... But to me it seemed to be the most logical way to take care of all use cases.

The other way would be: check if the MIDI editor is open.
But what about people who have the MIDI editor always open?

No please don't remove mouse Wait until that being last resort. Honestly. I've used a lot of mouse scripts and they work fine, I'm sure it was Reaper hiccuping about my mouse position. I should have tried to find the current mouse position with pyautogui or something to see if the XY was something crazy instead of where my cursor "we saw" was instead.
That would have proved it
(that's all the programming I know lol)
Anyways, thanks for these scripts! Will let you know how my testing goes this AM.

[_Stevie_]

Okay, will leave everything as is. I really put a lot of thought into this method. I just recently adapted all my scripts to that, haha.
Would be a pity, if it didn't work!

[Zirrex]

Script: sr_Zoom MIDI editor to content.lua

Nice! Thank you.
But All Reaper scripts "Zomm to Content" work only with horizontal zoom. There is no accounting for the vertical zoom to Content. :-(

[_Stevie_]

Yes, that's true no way to do that right now.

[zookthespook]

Hi Stevie ,

I can't thank you enough for making the "Open MIDI editor and zoom to content and Zoom MIDI editor to content" script !

i just don't understand how does reaper asses opening the midi editor. I almost have to scroll around a few times to get to the place i need to , with this script, boom !!! it just focuses on the area . This should have been a native protocol , i am replacing my double click midi item from the default action to your amazing script

really appreciate it man

cheers
zook

[_Stevie_]

Hey Zook!

Haha thank you, but you have to thank Julian
more than me. I just adjusted his script a bit to my needs
Glad that it is of help for your workflow!

[lowellben]

Originally Posted by zookthespook

Hi Stevie ,

I can't thank you enough for making the "Open MIDI editor and zoom to content and Zoom MIDI editor to content" script !

i just don't understand how does reaper asses opening the midi editor. I almost have to scroll around a few times to get to the place i need to , with this script, boom !!! it just focuses on the area . This should have been a native protocol

Should. But won't be.

[anthraxsnax]

How hard would it be to get your render VSTi only item to render multichannel audio?

[_Stevie_]

Can't say from the top of my head. Will have to check, when I have a bit more time.

[ulna]

Originally Posted by _Stevie_

Can't say from the top of my head. Will have to check, when I have a bit more time.

Thanks so much for these scripts Stevie! You've helped make my transition from Logic a little less painful!

[_Stevie_]

Thanks! Very glad to hear that

[Dafarkias]

Hey Stevie!

You just pointed me towards your repo over in Julian's thread, and I had a question about a behavior with you scripts, "Select notes before/after mouse cursor (in take under mouse or in MIDI editor)"

I'm trying use them on a MIDI piano track with a lot of midi notes, and it's not working consistently. Every now and then I get the error message: "Can't select notes, because overlapping notes were found"

The problem is, that these overlapping notes are part of the original piano performance, and I don't want to remove them and change the tonality of the recording.

I tried removing the segment of script that returned the error, and that only caused glitching.

[_Stevie_]

Hey Darfakias!

With overlapping notes, something else is meant:

overlapping notes: same note, same pitch and overlapping.
That's something the Reaper API can't deal with. That's why you got strange results, when removing the code from my script.

That's scenario that will actually never happen when recording piano, but when you insert notes manually on top of another note OR (I think) when you punch in
over a note. There's an action in the MIDI editor called "correct overlapping notes". Execute that one and run my script again. This should fix the problem.

[Dafarkias]

Originally Posted by _Stevie_

With overlapping notes, something else is meant:

Sorry Stevie! I made myself look like an idiot! (again)

Thanks!

[_Stevie_]

No, you didn't at all
This is really something that is very Reaper specific, nothing to be ashamed of