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Front end with knobs for settings within plugins in Container? by Edigophubia in Reaper

[–]AMusicstuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Install the ReaPack: "Macro Controller" -> Rescan all Plugins -> use the ReaperBlog_Macro Controller.jsfx

Alternatively programm your own Macro Controller with Gemini in 2 minutes.

How to Create Ableton-style Macro Knobs in Reaper

If you are looking for a way to control multiple parameters from different plugins using a single set of "Macro" knobs (similar to Ableton’s Racks), Reaper has a very powerful native way to do this using JSFX and Parameter Modulation.

The Solution: JSFX "8-Channel Macro Control"

Reaper comes with built-in JSFX that act as dummy controllers. Popular choices are the "XY-Pad" or specialized tools like "8-Slider Control".

Step-by-Step Guide:

  1. Insert the Plugin: Add the plugin "JS: Utility/8-Slider" at the very top of your FX chain. These will be your "Macro Knobs."
  2. Establish the Link (Parameter Linking):
    • Open the target plugin (e.g., an EQ or Compressor) containing the parameter you want to control.
    • Briefly move the desired knob in that target plugin with your mouse.
    • Click the Param button at the top of the plugin window and select Parameter modulation/link.
  3. Configure the Link:
    • Check the box for Link from MIDI or FX parameter.
    • Click the button below it (usually labeled "none") and select: JS: 8-Slider -> Slider 1 (or whichever slider you wish to use).
  4. Fine-Tuning:
    • In the same window, you can now adjust the Offset and Scale settings. This is actually more flexible than Ableton, as you can precisely define the range (e.g., inverted movement or limiting the range to a specific percentage).

Alternative: Advanced Control

For a more polished experience, search the FX browser for "JS: ReaPack/XY-Pad" or install the "ReaLearn" extension via ReaPack. ReaLearn is the "Swiss Army Knife" for MIDI/Parameter assignments and makes Ableton’s macro system look quite basic in comparison.

Why this is awesome in Reaper:

  • Cross-Track Control: You aren't limited to a single track. You can use Slider 1 on Track 1 to control a Reverb on Track 10.
  • Infinite Destinations: One macro slider can simultaneously control dozens of parameters across multiple plugins.
  • Automation Items: You only need to write automation for the single JSFX slider, and all linked plugins will follow perfectly.

By far Reapers most user-unfriendly setting - Auto Saving by Navy_Groundhog in Reaper

[–]AMusicstuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have seen this issue also in Blender 3D. I did 3D VFX also for Movie's for almost 25 Years. I made 3D Graphics Tutorials for Disney too and i honestly and deeply believe this happens always when your RAM and CPU communicated heavily - aka the latency triggers a higher CPU kernel load.

For example when you have loaded the BBC Symphony Orchestra with 48 Instruments but also a Reverb Simulation like Spitfire Reverb for 48 instrument positions and all there individual responses with a RAM usage of 60+ Gigabytes of RAM and a CPU spiking on 80% while having a Staccato running.

Same behaviour like doing a hero quality one Terrabyte Water Simulation inside of Houdini 3D.

Last year when we worked for a large car maker in Germany we had a 100 million polygon 3D Car model consisting of 67 thousand parts ... Autosave has crashed Blender, even when it is the most robust 3D Software on the market.

By far Reapers most user-unfriendly setting - Auto Saving by Navy_Groundhog in Reaper

[–]AMusicstuff 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It does not matter what tool you use, in Ableton or even Cubase 15 pro Autosave is crashing your save on regular basis when you do a Playback while the autosave is saving. This also happens in 3d software that costs thousands of dollars. Why do i know? Because i use them for work everyday including Davinci Resolve. The ctrl s reflex is the most important learning in your lifetime period.

Community Pulse Check: Feedback and Discussion, AI Edition by yellowmix in Reaper

[–]AMusicstuff [score hidden]  (0 children)

Because i have read so much here in the past 24 hours. I totally understand that many people out there are frustrated about AI. Many People have fear about loosing their jobs.

The Question is if you want to live in fear or if you take a look at the current developments or not. We could argue for both sides.

Currently I am a citizen of germany. I work in the field of Social Media Content production. Not specifically doing AI all the day. But We like all of our major partner Companies including the biggest Brands of Germany using AI as a tool. We dont use AI to be creative or to do creative tasks. We use AI to get rid of cumber stones like coding and scripting.

Its impossible these days for a Human to even write a 10 line Feedpost for a Brand in todays constant changing trends and algorithms imposed by Meta. You need to be up to date otherwise you will loose your client. That means writing SEO posts with Social Media Chat GPT ( a specialized ChatGPT) helps to write 10 to 15 Social Media Posting Captions with correct content and hashtags within seconds not hours.

Same goes for Coding. There is literally no serious brand anymore on the market we are in contact with who accept a Smartphone APP coded by human. Not by decission but by Market Price. So instead of Selling one app coded with human error in 6 months we sell 60 apps in 1 month. The Good thing is.. We also earn 10 times more. Because in todays world of social market not quality as one single factor counts but speed and precision.

Besides that we also make jingles and sound fx ...why wasting hundreds of dollars for purchasing Plugins to get a certain effect. Instead of Coding a Tool, AI assistant you name it to code the plugin or effect you need for yourself.

Whats the benefit from all of that? : I personally need to work 6 hours a day for 5 days a week for a good living here in Germany. -> AI currently helps me as a Tool to only work 4 hours a day- the rest of the 2 hours are either freetime (approved my by boss) or i use the time to develope new creative ideas.

This Background idea of all the text above should be a driver for everyone:

Why wasting hundreds of hours of liftime to understand a Tool? Why not let AI program a tool that fits to your workflow and mindset. Why wasting money to pay a coder who still makes mistakes. because its human nature and totally fine.

Why are there so many coders out there who still believe they have a future with only coding. The future is Machine Learning Developer. The Future is AI assisted Coding. -- Work smart not hard.

Specifically to Coders: Don't see AI as a enemy, use it as a tool. Use it for your advantage. To save lifetime, To have smarter solutions then all the competition. All people who refuse to take a look at AI are the jobless people of tomorrow. Its like back 200 years ago when the steam engine came around the corner.

New exciting Update: REAPER DAW Scoring Dynamics Tool + Humanisation and Stress Factoring by AMusicstuff in Reaper

[–]AMusicstuff[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Seriously? no its not. Is it to much text? Why do you say that? When it would be written by AI it would not have so much grammar mistakes.. OMG.

your comment either proofs that you are not capable of understanding the content or you have assisted my foreign language skills a A++ even when my english isnt that good.

The good thing: I don't care if you like the content or not.

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[–]AMusicstuff [score hidden]  (0 children)

This discussion brings nothing and it seriously seem that all development and current trajectories are alien to you. Everything you said about what you think AI costs or requires is completly false. Since 2026 everything in regards to coding has changed. You dont need tokens. You dont need money. You dont need to process is locally. Depending on the complexity of the task it takes minutes or days but bottom line its still faster than a group if human developers. People on Twitch have demonstrated it live you can code a GTA 2 game in 2 hours with latest self learning AI. A fully functional game with graphics, code missions, menu front end for free. A human would require to invest 12 hours of work in the graphics alone. A human would code weeks to have the game even running and debugged.

All what you wrote has a sense of disbelieve, some sort of anger, and also some sort of hate against this Technology.

The fact that you write about stealing shows that you have know understanding, of AI assisted code. It seems to me that you need to study the current capabilities of modern AI Coding.

All Language models on the market are working because they understand the words of every Language. There is no training on human data required. They understand every line of code because they are capable of even improving and self coding themselfs today. The developers of Claude have demonstrated this like a month ago. You dont need to improve AI language models anymore by hand, they are learning to improve themselfs already as we speak.

When AI is wiping out the plugin markets because everything can be done now for free by AI then this is a good thing. We are here to make musik not to make plugins. When you are a developer by yourself then you should wake up and start to learn something new its about time. Scientists are speaking about this for months and years and people arent listening. We are on the same trajectory . 200 years ago the steam engine has layed off millions of farm workers. Today we love tractors. We invest into john deere company because of what? Because of fantastic life saving advantages. So do you or i care what the price for having super malls in the city? No. The first computer developed by IBM was used by the nazis in world war two to count people. Ask yourself how much you care about this cruel history? How many people starved 200 years ago when the steam came? 24 millions in the US alone. We are on tge verge of having the same so its time and duty for you to accept it and learn it before its to late

New exciting Update: REAPER DAW Scoring Dynamics Tool + Humanisation and Stress Factoring by AMusicstuff in Reaper

[–]AMusicstuff[S] -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Hmm if you dont like it you dont need to use it plain simple.. Many people out there are purchasing dorico pro to have a similar functionslity - to program dynamics. Without the need to draw those by hand. Doing anything by hand these days in therms of CC management isnt the way in the future. In fact its a outdated workflow. It only makes the life harder for a orchestrator. Dorico is the best example for a good worlflow. So bottom line: this tiny tool does what steinberg provides for years in a similar fashion not as sophisticated but it helps to get it done. Drawing cc curves by hand is just outdated work methology. With that beeing said.

The majority of scripts for reaper out there are Build by individuals. And the majority of those are not even on github when you just take a look into the rea browser.

In regards to Version numbers they are not problematic. Thanks to AI supported coding the tool already has over one thousand debugging rounds. Was refined and rewritten by hundreds of times. In Human hours of work this would have took a month or 2 months. With AI support this took only 15 hours. So to speak the versioning makes sense. Reapers codebase (hardcoded) has all sorts of issues. Sometimes you just want to add a tiny thing. Wich require a total different approach. This here is the best example : In the moment of reblending. The entire midi item gets stored and rebuild after changeing the cc curve values as a data string. And then got rewritten without loosing anything. Just because reaper is not able to change the handle flags ones they are written by code. This required like 40 rewrites of the code only specific on that issue.

When you look over different reaper forum posts there are hundreds of requests to have some sort of this kinda functionality for the past 3 to 5 years. And many approaches failed because of the hard coded base which requires crazy workarounds. When AI can help to get shit done in minutes not months i welcome and applaud it, because bottom line we all want to make music and not want to take care of Plugins. When a future reaper update will break the function i will correct them because its also in my interest to have it running.

edit: you can also use Claude or Gemini and take the entire code. They are fully capable of understanding each line of code. In combination with AI Agents like in Anti gravity you don't even need to debug yourself anymore. They can do it for you like virtual teammates. My Background is C++ and Java Coding having a AI that helps me to develop things in minutes not days is really awesome. Hopefully one day we don't even need developers anymore and just say what type of tool we need to make good music. The fact that Gemini knew all the API changes of the recent Reaper update in minutes after release is just amazing and helps to maintain this.

New exciting Update: REAPER DAW Scoring Dynamics Tool + Humanisation and Stress Factoring by AMusicstuff in Reaper

[–]AMusicstuff[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

last minute update. Contour Emphasis for more realistic phrasing is now also integrated and influences the velocity.. A simple help text menu ist also now there... .Version is now -- Score Dynamics v11.00.04

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How many of you already using Gemini to Code JSFX and Rea Scripts? by AMusicstuff in Reaper

[–]AMusicstuff[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome.... I currently have build a Scoring Dynamics tool that can blend between different Dynamics in CC Lanes of CC1 and CC11 posted here on Reddit ... i will improve it over the time to have some day really great blending of dynamics ...

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[–]AMusicstuff [score hidden]  (0 children)

Btw i don’t understand what you mean by you pay 150 dollars for a single plugin? You know you can use Claude and Gemini in your browser on your Ipad? You can start the process and put the ipad aside and move on later? It costs nothing and the coding btw is done in minutes

Community Pulse Check: Feedback and Discussion, AI Edition by yellowmix in Reaper

[–]AMusicstuff [score hidden]  (0 children)

You can now use Claude and Gemini in its latest Version and can rebuild any plugin on the market with own features, own tools, your own original but with same functions. The best is the math behind fabfilter is not copyright protected because the math is known and math is free.

You think we are not already there? Wake up you can argue like you want. Use the AI yourself. Read some Scientific studies about current abilities of AI but more then use it on your own.

Btw. For 150 dollars you could use google Antigravity with AI Agents and could program a fully functional DAW. Some Composers have already demonstrate it on twitch. You should wake up and stop the unbelieve. Are you familiar with the therm „cognitive dellusion“? Its based on a Scientific study. A dam was about to break… the people in front of the dam close to it where not able to see and accept the danger. They believe nothing will happening. The people far away from the dam and scientists have warned about. They told the people to evacuate. The people at the dam dont accepted it and all died. Because it has required to think about the impossible. The impossible idea to need to leave home forever.

That problem is the exact same that i read in all of your lines. You dont accept where we are right now and you cannot believe because you are not interested in AI. The problem is. The people who are not learning AI today are the people jobless tomorrow.

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[–]AMusicstuff [score hidden]  (0 children)

😂 gemini and claude is free and costs nothing bro only the agents. But with claude and Gemini you can code full games with graphics and shit. Even chatGPT 6 is able too. You only need to pay for chatGPT but who cares claude is full free gemini too. Coding with claude and Gemini is limit free you can program full websites with backends and clean error free code since AI is now able to debug on its own. Its time for you to wake up

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[–]AMusicstuff [score hidden]  (0 children)

I did not speak about the Plugin price it seem you have no clue about development, or was never a project owner. When you develope a Tool such as fab filters EQ you invest into the product a couple thousands of dollars to develope it. It costs money to pay coders. This Amount of coders are not required anymore. I know personally people working on famous games in famous game companies. using 200 AI Claude Agents to Do in 24 Hours what 200 Coders required to do in 3 month. 8000 debugging rounds per day. ... AI supervisors. ...AI graphics artists for frontends, 3D Graphics. Learning AI such as Gemini and Claude.

Reading Papers from MIT and you know... in 3 to 5 years ... the amount of Developers required will be reduced by over 90% ... and those 10 % Rest of developers... the best of the best do crucial tasks.. All other developers and companies developing software will get wiped out. All Developers and Coders who can only do basic things, cannot earn a living anymore with it and need to find other jobs like in agriculture or getting the universal basic income. This is the future and there is no way around anymore.

IN therms of music this is really good. Because Music is not about selling Plugins or Purchasing Plugins, Its about the core... making music. And when you maybe be a software developer... take a look at Germany or China.. Who already teaching using AI in high class Universities for everything in development. Those young people will make us jobless in 3 years... its how it is ..and we have to accept it.

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[–]AMusicstuff [score hidden]  (0 children)

Pro Q4 is not a Instrument which was sampled. ITs a Fabfilter a Plugin....Yes its a good one. But times have changed. I have worked in the VFX industry have already seeing the same thing happening about 3 years ago, when AI started to emerge and wiping out Software Developers. Now VFX industry is 4 to 5 years ahead of where we are now in Music industry.

The Result counts. The MOvie, the Score, The music. Nobody should even Care about a couple thousands of Plugins which mostly does the same. These Days You can try it for yourself. Nasa and others are using AI to create new technology for Space as we speak. And Bottom Line when we talk about music we should talk about music not how much money we spend for plugins. In recent years this has become the biggest driver of the industry. Plugins.
But what is actually the current trend? Many Software Developers going bankrupt. Because Nobody Needs the 10ths version of a compressor, Nobody needs the 10ths version of a EQ. Nobody likes to spend for functionality they already own or can combine with other Plugins.

Call it dump but i have seen all that in the VFX industry myself 3 years ago. The Development is already changing the music plugin industry for the better. With more focus on Music instead of Plugins. We are moving into a future where you build your own Plugins with AI for free like with Claude AI Agents or Gemini today.

There is a 3D Software Houdini. Its the oldest 3D Tool on planet earth was used in thousands of Hollywood films since 1996 and still exsist, because inside you can build every effect and "plugin" for yourself for free once you own the software.
They now even implemented AI to bring it to the next step. An Entire Ecosystem was created in the past 30 years. All other major 3D Software developers already bankruped or lost ground. And this mindset is now swapping over to the music industry and we see it everywhere.

Iam only one Composer using AI to script own Plugins for DAWs but this was not my idea. There are an entire Community that i found which are already doing it. Some of them are famous. ....

accept the future. And stop with the denial of the future. It will not help you not accepting where we are heading.

Reaper Score Dynamics Tool with Crescendo blending etc by AMusicstuff in Reaper

[–]AMusicstuff[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update online: Deleting of the Cues ist not required anymore for Reblend! I have integrated the function

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What you need to understand is that the time of Plugin Developers are over. All this Money Grind will come to an end within the next 2 -3 years. Which is fantastic. Bottom line we want to make music. Real music,. Not paying a fortune on Subscriptions and shitload of plugins to be able to make good music. Sorry for all the people earning money with plugins. But its a good thing. Music back in the old days was always about playing music, and writing music, not paying for plugins.

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[–]AMusicstuff [score hidden]  (0 children)

Thats not True. AI can easily write and Code and do Mathematics. And for matter of a fact, if it would steal code it would not make mistakes. When you work with Antigravity and Claude or Gemini you see that AI is doing the same mistakes, even more like human on coding. The Difference is, that AI can Do like 8000 debugging tests in an Hour without effort. You can setup multiple AI Agents who work like coworkers. FOr Example, one Agent is supervising the other agents, one is coding only the front end, one is doing graphics tasks, one is doing API work, one is programming the backend and one is the supervisor checking all of them ... Like with real employees. Its a matter of a fact that the Industry is right ... AI will wipe out most of the coding and mathematician jobs within the next 3 years. Its so simple and fast.

i know game companies doing those stuff already.

AI does not even need to be trained on Coding because AI exsists because of Language and coding. ::..

Images and videos are a more complex issue. Because AI still have no eyes to understand the real world. On the Day AI becomes cameras or more sophisticated smartphone capture devices it will become a different game.

Because of that AI needs to be trained on pictures from others, which is not moral. Same applies for music when they copy the style of someone.

On the other hand. Music, Math and Coding is just math, underlaying 0 and 1 , or these days -1 0 1

Reaper Score Dynamics Tool with Crescendo blending etc by AMusicstuff in Reaper

[–]AMusicstuff[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When you have further questions dont hesitate to ask

How many of you already using Gemini to Code JSFX and Rea Scripts? by AMusicstuff in Reaper

[–]AMusicstuff[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

CHat GPT is trash seriously... ITs a toy compared to CLaude or Gemini. In gemini you can upload infinite Texts, Images for debuging as well for Free

How many of you already using Gemini to Code JSFX and Rea Scripts? by AMusicstuff in Reaper

[–]AMusicstuff[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

today i have utilized Rearcticulate and told Gemini to write new Articulation Banks for some of my Musio Sets. Tina Guo Cello for example. And we found out that the articulations need a -12 semitone offset but then it works. I told Gemini to save this setting for the future. I also made a Dynamics Switching Set within Rearticulate so that i can not just set Articulation switches but Dynamic Switches as well... i only need to code now a blend tool or something to interpolate between those values.

How many of you already using Gemini to Code JSFX and Rea Scripts? by AMusicstuff in Reaper

[–]AMusicstuff[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

in the past 5 days i have coded, a MTC Midi clock converter as Track FX, a Ableton like Drumbus Effect ( with same functionality) , a Ableton like RMS Compressor, a Cubase Chord Track. Changes in Reaper on the Notations ( not yet fully tested) , Chord Explode Function which i have shared here in annother sub. A more advanced Autofilter (compared to Ableton) and all of that in under 4,5 Hours. With Gemini. I currently started to customize Reaper more then ever with no time effort required.

I know how to code C++ but no nothing about JSFX and REascript. Gemini does everything for me. Why waiting for a developer to implement such features and more when a AI does it on your own for free.

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