Hi everyone, first post here!
So, for the context, i'm working regularly on editing/mixing sound for film and trying to evaluate if i could switch from protools to reaper which i love. But... after trying to mix two shorts lately, i discovered that reaper can be painful sometimes and that i was trying to force it to do things it was not designed to do... But i know how deep reaper can be and i would be very thankful if someone has tips! Oh, and i'm not a native english speaker (french), so let me know if i'm not clear enough. Here it is
Surround panning :
Having to use a surround panner plugin as an insert doesn't allow to send pre-pan, and it gets messy when i want to pan a send differently. I often need to send a track to a reverb aux with a completely different panning and to automate everything independently in surround.
The only solution i could think of was to put a reasurround on a bus with one "source channel" per track, and another one on the reverb aux. But it feels weird having to pan on the receiving tracks instead of the actual tracks. Not to mention how messy it becomes as more tracks are added, including stereo ones with linked parameters for the two channels. Does anyone know a better way? I guess some native track panning modes for surround would be great, and that they should be usable on sends too.
Example with LCR panning (linux gui, not my main pc):
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https://i.imgur.com/HS66p1S.png
Automations:
Is there a way to copy the current state of a plugin and paste it somewhere else timewise and/or on another instance? "Copy selected FX (include automation)" (right click in fx window) is not what i'm talking about. I need to copy the state at one point in time and write it at another as automations.
I've already find how to write to time selection while in latch preview using the action "Automation: Write current values for actively-writing envelopes to time selection". I just can't copy.
For exemple with an eq, i would like to put my cursor somewhere i want to copy the settings, open the eq, copy his state at this specific time, and write it to a time selection, or punch it while playing in latch etc... In fact, if there was a way to "touch" every parameter of an FX while in latch preview, it should do the trick, but i didn't find a way to do it (a script maybe?).
Here is a video i found on youtube showing lots of automation things i'm used to do in protools and, as far as i know, can't do in reaper (starts at 10min46) :
https://youtu.be/nI9NYG9PqI8?t=646
Hoping someone here has already found some workarounds.
Anyway, many thanks in advance for your time
Tom.