FX Parameters not available if FX is inside a Container

rvitantonio commented 6 months ago

Unable to Learn an FX Parameter when the FX is inside a Container. Normally the ReaLearn drop down lists show all of the FX's on a track, as well as the many parameters of each FX. But, when FX's are inside a Reaper 8 Container, the drop down lists show only the Container, but no FX's. The only parameters that drop down are the Container's, Dry, Wet, Bypass parameters.

ElVicente commented 3 weeks ago

Would be cool to learn things in containers indeed. Hope it's in the roadmap...

helgoboss commented 2 weeks ago

Small overview regarding ReaLearn's current state of container FX support:

Controlling top-level FX containers ✅

From the perspective of ReaLearn, the container is just like any other FX, so you can control its exposed/mapped parameters and other things.

Controlling FX within containers 🚫

They don't even appear within ReaLearn
From ReaLearn's perspective, containers are black boxes / normal FX

Assessment: Support would be nice, yes, but it would be quite some effort to implement it. Since it's possible to control mapped parameters, I don't consider this as an urgent addition. You can always map parameters instead. If anyone has use cases in mind where this is not viable, let me know.

Putting ReaLearn itself into a container 🚫

Not-so-nice error message "Helgobox FX has no track but also doesn't seem to be on monitoring FX chain"
It would be nice if the error message would be a bit more clear: "Helgobox within an FX container is not supported yet" (analogously to the take FX error message "Helgobox as take FX is not supported yet).

Assessment: Not so sure if adding support for this in the future would be worth the effort. If anyone comes up with good reasons and use cases, let me know.

ElVicente commented 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the infos helgoboss. I'm pretty newbie at containers, and I did not knew about 'mapped' parameters inside container. Will look into that.

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