AZSlow

Primary the idea comes from the fact related extensions and plug-ins are not accessible.

Loop based recording, so recording new loops on top of existing loops, is not convenient in tape oriented DAWs. As long as all loops have the same length, conventional recording works fine. But using loops of different lengths require many manual operations when recording and adjusting to the project length.

I have written quick and dirty script which organize simple loop recording: https://www.azslow.com/index.php?action=downloads;sa=downfile&id=98

How to use:

• Add the script to REAPER Actions and assign shortcut, you will need to run it many times
• Create new project without tracks. Set desired tempo and other options of choice.
• Run the script. That will set required options. The script does that every time you run it, but you need these setting before the first recording.
• Add a new track and record something which is going to be the first loop. Loops must be recorded from the beginning of the project and you should stop recording in the first half of the measure after your loop should end, for example if the loop should be one measure, you should stop recording during the first half of the second measure. Loop length is quantized to power of 2 measures, so 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 and so on.
• Run the script. It should create the first loop.
• Add the next track and start recording. The first loop will be played infinitely, so you technically will record many takes. Stop at desired length. It can be shorted or longer then previous loop
• Run the script. It will create new loop and if required adjust the first one.
• Continue with new loops the same way.

You can protect tracks to avoid them interpreted as loops, just start Item not at the beginning of the project. Such tracks will not be touched by the script.

If you change the length of the project by creating not looped content, first protect it as described and then run the script. The script will adjust the length of all loops to cover the project and set new looping region.

In case resulting loop has unexpected length, for example if you have not stopped recording in time, truncate the item to desired loop length, glue it and run the script.

Known issues:

• multi-take MIDI recording may contain note repeat on boundary crossing, even after the item is unrolled and glued by the script. Normally such notes are easy to spot and join in MIDI editor

Warning: the script is just written so it is probably extremely buggy. Let me know if you have issues, I will try to fix them.

Hi Alexey

Thanks for your guidance.

I have removed the unneeded "Function, Select strip".

I had both 'stop' and 'disarm' commands in my PIC code but they were in the wrong order (I had the 'disarm' command before the 'stop' command).
So I have corrected the order and also added a small time delay between the 'stop' and 'disarm' commands.
This seems to b working reliably now.

Question:
Although the global disarm command deselects any track arm buttons which were active, it does not trigger the change of button status feedback outputs for those buttons.  Is that what you would expect?

Regards
Robert

Hi Alexey

I have had intermittent problems with the 'Disarm all tracks' function not working reliably.  I want to try and find out the cause of the problem.

My current logic for that function is as follows:
Function, Select strip
Function, All, Tracks Disarm
Is that correct?

If the logic is correct, is there anything else I could check?

Regards
Robert

HI,
I just want to say a huge thank you for this update. I'm so happy that you still support this great unit! I still hope for the ability to use RTA on this unit, when out gigging. I know that it doesn't have an ocilator like the Behringer X32 but it can analyse an incoming signal and tell what frequences are bad. But besides that this program really rools!

My general rule - what works is "right" (even when something looks a bit ugly...)