Automation Lanes - order and tinting

[joe2]

Yes, please!

("Full WALTER" for automation lanes and automation items would be great - not to mention for tracks, media items, and the arrange view in general! ;-)

[SoundGuyChris]

Went searching to google on how to re-order them, found this FR....so now I'm here to +1!

Reordering automation lanes would be a very nice feature to have. Also, the ability to easily recolor them the way you can recolor tracks / items would be killer.

Would open the door for an SWS-style autocolor!

[dupont]

useful indeed +1

[Win Conway]

Didn't want to start a new thread for envelope lanes using parent track coloring, so bump, please and thank you.

[Win Conway]

It would also be nice if the env CP used images from track layout folders.

[Pencheff]

Yes, please elevate this feature request.

[deeb]

And the ability to multi select lanes and delete and ofcourse reorder.

[USR]

+1

Sometimes I forget I can't do this, and try to move an envelope lane by mouse. Coloring would be awesome, too.

[dug dog]

I would love to have both of these features.

[valy]

Need this badly

[mtk]

In a meantime these 2 scripts should be useful:
- me2beats_Move selected envelope up.lua
- me2beats_Move selected envelope down.lua

But obviously, having it coded natively and reordering just by dragging would be much more natural in 2021
Changing colors would be helpful too.


There is much more to improve with envelopes, ex.
- relation between parameter and envelope lane - you can show envelope by clicking on the parameter, but you can't show parameter by clicking on the envelope...
- there is no visual indicator for the envelopes if you put insert fx offline .. envelopes are still there as they was before
- treating envelopes like a normal tracks (maybe as subtracks?) and AI like a normal items - it's especially important for the sake of shortcuts consistency .. now I need separate shortcuts for AI and MI
- modulations options embed in env lanes in TCP (or maybe some kind of automatically generated line in the background of envelope lane across the timeline showing how modulation would be applied to envelope) to see what is modulated and how instantly
- and much more.... but I feel i'm gonna need a separate thread to express all of this don't want to mess this thread

[uncleswede]

Originally Posted by mtk

In a meantime these 2 scripts should be useful:
- me2beats_Move selected envelope up.lua
- me2beats_Move selected envelope down.lua

Hmmm. not having any joy with these scripts...

I have a track envelope (1 of 4) selected but the 'down' script doesn't appear to do anything and the 'up' script throws an error...

me2beats_Move selected envelope up.lua:72: attempt to index a nil value (local 'chunk')

[dug dog]

Same result here with those scripts. I don't normally run scripts, so maybe I'm not executing properly.

[DarkStar]

Meanwhile .. which would move that highlighted envelope down two lanes:



But I'm stuck on a problem using "reaper.SetTrackStateChunk()"

[mtk]

I'm not sure but I may done some fix for this ... this is the code that is working in my setup:

-- @description Move selected envelope up
-- @version 1.1
-- @author me2beats
-- @changelog
--  + init

local r = reaper; local function nothing() end; local function bla() r.defer(nothing) end

function GetTrackChunk(track)
  if not track then return end
  local fast_str, track_chunk
  fast_str = r.SNM_CreateFastString("")
  if r.SNM_GetSetObjectState(track, fast_str, false, false) then
    track_chunk = r.SNM_GetFastString(fast_str)
  end
  r.SNM_DeleteFastString(fast_str)  
  return track_chunk
end

function SetTrackChunk(track, track_chunk)
  if not (track and track_chunk) then return end
  local fast_str, ret 
  fast_str = r.SNM_CreateFastString("")
  if r.SNM_SetFastString(fast_str, track_chunk) then
    ret = r.SNM_GetSetObjectState(track, fast_str, true, false)
  end
  r.SNM_DeleteFastString(fast_str)
  return ret
end

function esc (str)
str = str:gsub('%(', '%%(')
str = str:gsub('%)', '%%)')
str = str:gsub('%.', '%%.')
str = str:gsub('%+', '%%+')
str = str:gsub('%-', '%%-')
str = str:gsub('%$', '%%$')
str = str:gsub('%[', '%%[')
str = str:gsub('%]', '%%]')
str = str:gsub('%*', '%%*')
str = str:gsub('%?', '%%?')
str = str:gsub('%^', '%%^')
str = str:gsub('/', '%%/')
return str end

function replace_str_parts(str,sub1,sub2)
  return str:gsub(esc(sub2),sub1,1):gsub(esc(sub1),sub2,1)
end

local env = r.GetSelectedEnvelope()
if not env then bla() return end

local tr, tr_fxnum, tr_paramnum = r.Envelope_GetParentTrack(env)
if not tr then bla() return end

local envs = r.CountTrackEnvelopes(tr)

for i = 0,envs-1 do
  local tr_env  = r.GetTrackEnvelope(tr, i)
  if tr_env == env then num = i break end
end

if not num then bla() return end

local chunk = GetTrackChunk(tr)

t = {}

local env_str = ''
local i = 0

for env_chunk in chunk:gmatch('<PARMENV.->') do
  i = i+1
  t[i]=env_chunk
  env_str = env_str..'\n'..env_chunk
end

local cur = t[num+1]

for i = num, 1,-1 do
  local env_chunk = t[i]
  if env_chunk:match'\nVIS 1' then
    upper = env_chunk; upper_i = i
  break end
end

if not upper then bla() return end

local chunk_new = replace_str_parts(chunk,upper,cur)

local chunk_empty = chunk:gsub(esc(env_str),'')

r.Undo_BeginBlock()
r.PreventUIRefresh(1)

SetTrackChunk(tr, chunk_empty)
SetTrackChunk(tr, chunk_new)

local upper_env = r.GetTrackEnvelope(tr, upper_i-1)
r.SetCursorContext(2, upper_env)

r.PreventUIRefresh(-1)
r.Undo_EndBlock('Move selected envelope up', -1)

[mtk]

[uncleswede]

Nope - still get the same error here...
(v6.20, 64bit, Windows 7)

me2beats_Move selected envelope up.lua:72: attempt to index a nil value (local 'chunk')

There error report suggests this line (72):

...
for env_chunk in chunk:gmatch('<PARMENV.->') do
...

Cheers

[teniente powell]

Originally Posted by mtk

In a meantime these 2 scripts should be useful:
- me2beats_Move selected envelope up.lua
- me2beats_Move selected envelope down.lua

Wonderful. The second one works for me. The first one gives me an error 72: attempt to index a nil value (local 'chunk')

Anyway, if I can move them down, I can reorder them. It's a way.

[mtk]

That's strange ... the first difference between these 2 files is in line #80...

[mtk]

Ok, I got it.

line 62 has an error

local chunk = GetTrackChunk(track)
shoud be:
local chunk = GetTrackChunk(tr)

[teniente powell]

Originally Posted by mtk

Ok, I got it.

line 62 has an error

local chunk = GetTrackChunk(track)
shoud be:
local chunk = GetTrackChunk(tr)

Yessssssssssssssss!

[uncleswede]

Originally Posted by mtk

Ok, I got it.

line 62 has an error

local chunk = GetTrackChunk(track)
shoud be:
local chunk = GetTrackChunk(tr)

That's the bug. All working now. Thanks

[dug dog]

That script works fine, here, provided that I have automation lanes for one plug in only. If there's a mix of different plugs, which is how my "real world" projects look, running that script creates a mess. Envelopes disappear, get renamed.

[mtk]

You are right, unfortunately ..I haven't noticed this before. Let's try to fix it.

[dug dog]

Originally Posted by mtk

Let's try to fix it.

That would be great, but I'm of no use in this department, unfortunately.

[valy]

Custom coloring of envelopes would be HUGE when dealing with a lot of automation. I mean the TCP and background of the tracks, not just the envelopes.

[Wahed]

+1

We really need this, indeed !

[andrewx]

+1
Would be very useful

[Phazma]

Bump.

Originally Posted by DarkStar

For ages we can rearrange tracks by dragging the TCP up / down, with a thick royal blue line indicating the drop position.

Can we please do the same with automation envelope lanes?

Who's with me ?
Issue tracker: http://forum.cockos.com/project.php?issueid=5155

+1

Originally Posted by DarkStar

Also,
For ages we can tint (part of) the TCP from a colour palette or with a specific / random colour.

Can we please do the same with automation envelope lanes?
Issue tracker: http://forum.cockos.com/project.php?issueid=5156

+1

[andrewx]

Bump.

[Macaroni]

I'm new to Reaper and I just posted about wanting to be able to change the color of automation envelopes for better visibility.

No wonder I couldn't figure out how to do it so far.

You can't.

Here's another vote for that.

[Hamst3r]

Seems this feature still isn't available as of Reaper 6.6.

+1

[benmiller]

+10

[X-Raym]

+1, being able to reorder envelope via click and drag would be nice !

[X-Raym]

Would be really so nice to be able to click and drag to reorder... 🙏 (I wanted this envelope to be numerically sorted)

[X-Raym]

[Loulou92]

+1

[Seventh Sam]

+1

[luanprins]

+1