Will be able to throw a fair few functions in now though, the AHK-colour-up-Reason-app only launches on button press and then self closes after doing some menu checks, so only gets called for that colour function, which does mean separate scripts for separate functionalities, to keep things housekept under the hood. AHK can dart around the screen looking for buttons and click them accordingly, to make the script fully compliant we would have to have all app view % modes set once to allow for the sniffing of the buttons like an archive bank (lets say each button is a fingerprint at a certain size, so 200% would be a different fingerprint to 100%, 120% 140% etc). May be the case of using the browser but there's more funky stuff to work on, which includes 'screen sniff' RE / VST / VST3 / Duplicates buttons to make things a bit more visible via the browser. Waves is the worst for this, with Mono and Stereo plugin version in their listing. Not all users have a plethora of plugins (we do, as we love new technologies and explore a lot of manufacturers). Another issue we know of is that the sub-menus have a max of 99 items possible, which is an issue if we wanted to select a specific plugin via Streamdeck AHK menu diving because the plugins aren't selectable (yet). Of course the next step is to allow stock items to be added in to the rack via StreamDeck as well as the general shortcut commands that are built in.Īlso means *should* be able to assign commands that aren't listed but are already configured (Reason 12 shortcuts PDF from RS site helps here). Perfecto - found the right method to allow non-command key function so we can colour up Reason anywhere now with StreamDeck colour selection - all 31 buttons without a Ctrl, Alt, Shift + key in sight, freeing up the other commands to run at they should. Does mean categorising clips and having a hot key to colour things up quickly by groups will be a breeze and save those few extra clicks Next is the listing of REs / VSTs at our fingertips, but that is a bit more involved of course, due to so many variations possible, but can be the same really, if you've got it the function will work, if not function won't do anything. Progress for sure, writing up 32 colour options to work anywhere in the program now is a breeze and very light on CPU, and using the 1 key combo again for anywhere - you have to select what you want to colour up (track, clip, rack strip, channel colour) but that's expected. Plus there's no visible menu popups at all - instantaneous.įeedback control would have to be done via Mackie + MIDI plugins but that makes sense in that respect for controls like that. Means we can configure the same buttons for colours to 'try' menu sniffing and if the menu option is found that colouring function will pick up quote quick. Yep Autohotkey is definitely the way forward here for StreamDeck integration on Windows, we've just found how to configure a shortcut key to define a colour quickly in the sequencer which means we could have a vast amount of controlsĪutohotkey does allow combokeys on F keys too, which can be very usefulĪlso Autohotkey can detect the menus dynamically so if a control isnt in a menu, the function wont just hang, it just wont do anything, so this means depending on what's selected on the screen can determine the menu function visible, which in turn means as long as StreamDeck keypress is detected and checks the available option it will colour up whatever wherever in the project you are (sequencer track, sequencer clips, or mixer or rack) Using the Mackie MCU plugin with the MIDI plugin as well as hotkeys in Win11 though is pretty cool, we just need to work out a navigation system on the Streamdeck so that shortcuts make sense (sort of have an up/down/left/right layout, with functions on top left/topright/bottomleft/bottom right that make sense).ĭoes work quite nicely though, can see this speeding up productivity for sure. Other tasks like colouring tracks needs to be menu driven by the looks of things, and Windows doesn't have the ability to add shortcut keys like Mac OS does (unfortunately). Not sure if having a 'route to existing bus' option is possible, might be another 'hack' here but again something for us to look into. New bus button will route the selected channel(s) to a new bus. If in sequencer view and you have no clips selected, then the 'active track' becomes the target for deletion, without the popup 'are you sure?'. Been working a little more on the Streadeck profile, got 2 working now so when Reason is maximised and main focus window the Streamdeck swaps to the Reason profile, got the usual New / Save / Save as buttons configured, added a Create Audio Track button, Duplicate button, Delete track+devices button, New Bus button (group up selected channels to new bus).ĭelete track+devices will only work when a selected track (or device) is activated.
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