CSI Changelog
When using an FXMenu and using the GoFXSlot action, CSI will no longer present the Auto-Map/Learn dialog box if the FXSlot is empty.
CSI now supports the fader on the original Presonus Faderport (aka "Faderport Classic").
The ToggleRestrictTextLength now applies to OSC displays (previously MIDI only).
There have been recent updates to the CSI Support Files:
- Add the Faderport Classic
- Update the BCR2000 files, added Touch OSC setup to add iPad Displays
- Brought MCU zone files up to latest version of CSI
- Updated SCE-24 support files
- Updated Faderport2.mst with release messages
A major update when it comes to simplifying FX mapping and grouping multiple surfaces in different ways.
A new 'Learn Mode' was added for FX mapping. Major improvements to Remap including the ability to see all Widgets for a particular cell, as well as much improved internals for Automap and Remap.
See the FX Mapping page for more details.
You can now group surfaces with regard to Sends, Receives, FXMenu, Modifiers, etc. Surfaces can be designated as "Broadcasters" and/or "Listeners".
Details can be found in the Advanced screen under Control Surface Settings.
Just a few example use-cases for Broadcast/Listen:
- Set up an MCU and Extender to share modifier state without affecting, say, an OSC device.
- Set up two or more surfaces to act as a mirrored group (e.g. using an OSC surface on an iPad to add displays to a MIDI device).
- You could use an FX Menu on one surface to activate an FX Mapping on another.
- Activate two different FX on two different surfaces sharing the same Zone folder (e.g. 2 MIDI Fighter Twisters acting independently)
You can use this Zone for whatever you would like. It has a Selected Track Navigator.
A number of new actions have been added to CSI in version 3.2.
ShowFXSlot - when paired with GoFXSlot, this will float the FX slot on screen
HideFXSlot - used for closing the the FX GUI (works well with OnZoneDeactivation HideFXSlot)
ToggleUseLocalModifiers - used for making modifiers local to a surface
AutoMapFX - used to automap the focused fx
CSINameDisplay - will show 'CSI' on a display
CSIVersionDisplay - will show the CSI version number on a display
A number of actions have been removed...
ToggleAutoFocusedFXMapping - replaced with new Auto-map/Learn dialog box
ToggleAutoFXMapping - replaced with the AutoMapFX action
GoLearnFXParams - now accessed via GoAssociatedZone LearnFXParams -- Note: this was only ever in Exp builds
GoSelectedTrackFX - now accessed via GoAssociatedZone SelectedTrackFX
In addition, you can open the edit dialog with either the Edit button or by double clicking on an item. In the edit dialog, you can now specify step sizes and you can choose whether you want a Rotary or Rotary Push. We will add more features to the edit dialog in the future.
A new action was added that allows you to re-order AutoGenerated FX Zone parameters from within Reaper. No need to edit text files just to move the parameters around! This also allows you to change the plugin alias, along with parameter aliases.
First, map a widget to the new RemapAutoZone action. Example:
Zone "Buttons"
F4 RemapAutoZone
ZoneEnd
Next, You need to activate an auto generated Zone with either a Focused FX Zone or an FXSlot Zone via FXMenu.
With the FX active on your surface, trigger the RemapAutoZone action -- e.g. press F4
A new window will appear.
You can directly edit the FX alias at the top.
The auto generated Zone lines appear in a list box.
Click to select an item.
Press the Edit button to edit the display text.
To reorder the item you can press the U and D buttons. You can also drag outside the list box to reorder -- you cannot drag inside the list box due to some list box limitations. If you are on a Mac, you can also use the keyboard left/right arrow keys.
Press Save to apply the changes.
This should eliminate those little low Track count gotchas. The default is white, as per the X-Touch native default. When a fixed colour or colours are set for the Track Zone, RestoreXTouchDisplayColors now works properly.
Adding a hardware output on a track in Reaper no longer breaks sends on that track.
ClearSelectedTrackFX deactivates the Selected Track FX Zones and zeros all Widgets.
ClearFocusedFXParam deactivates the Focused FX Param Zone and zeros all Widgets.
ClearFocusedFX deactivates the Focused FX Zone and zeros all Widgets. For a good discussion of usage, please see this post from MT4U https://forum.cockos.com/showpost.php?p=2681234&postcount=22727
Faders no longer zero when switching Zones. This means there should be no more Fader "slamming".
ClearFXSlot deactivates the currently mapped FX slot. Very handy if you have an 8-channel surface like an MCU, X-Touch etc., that you use to map FX using FXMenu and want to return to the menu.
Typical usage:
Zone "VST: UAD Harrison 32C (Universal Audio, Inc.)" "Har32C"
Plugin ClearFXSlot
When you press Plugin you will be returned to the FXMenu.
CSI version 3 is still in an experimental state, but I'm documenting the current-state of features and changes here.
The biggest changes with CSI version 3 have to do with FX mapping including: automatic FX mapping and zone creation, TCP FX mapping, MasterFX mapping, JS FX mapping improvements, and shared FX Zone Folders.
Additionally, CSI now treats all surfaces on a page as a single surface. This allows things like sends, receives, and FX menu zones to span multiple surfaces.
There has also been a clean-up of some actions to cut down on the bloat and smaller other changes/additions. See the details below.
CSI utilizes some new zone types to facilitate the automatic creation of FX maps. These will be placed into an AutoGeneratedFXZones sub-folder. The auto mapped FX require some pre-requisite .zon files to tell CSI how to create the AutoGeneratedFXZones. They are described below:
First, the SurfaceFXLayout zone file is where users can define what widgets (controls and/or displays) they want used with automatic FX mapping. Below is an example from an MCU or X-Touch which will map the Rotary encoders and the displays. Next to Zone name, SurfaceFXLayout, you see the layout name: MCUFXLayout. Note that "FXLayout" is required in the layout name.
Zone SurfaceFXLayout MCUFXLayout
Rotary FXParam
DisplayUpper FixedTextDisplay
DisplayLower FXParamValueDisplay
ZoneEnd
Next, the FXLayout dictates how the SurfaceFXLayout gets mapped to FX Paramaters. In an MCU/X-Touch device, that might look like this where the number 8 in each row represents the number of channels. The modifiers in the below example will dictate which modifiers get assigned to FX Params once the initial set of 8 params is used (example: if your FX has 22 params, the first 8 will be assigned to Rotary1-8 and displays, the next 8 to Shift+Rotary1-8 and shift+displays, the next 6 will be assigned to Option+Rotary1-8 and option+displays).
Zone FXLayouts
MCUFXLayout 8
MCUFXLayout+Shift 8
MCUFXLayout+Option 8
MCUFXLayout+Control 8
MCUFXLayout+Alt 8
ZoneEnd
If you're using a MCU C4, MIDI Fighter Twister, SCE-24 or any other multi-row surface, the syntax would look like this where the A, B, C, D represents the row and the number represents the channel count (e.g. RotaryA1-A8, RotaryB1-B8, etc.)
Zone FXLayouts
MCUC4FXLayout A 8
MCUC4FXLayout B 8
MCUC4FXLayout C 8
MCUC4FXLayout D 8
MCUC4FXLayout+Shift A 8
MCUC4FXLayout+Shift B 8
MCUC4FXLayout+Shift C 8
MCUC4FXLayout+Shift D 8
MCUC4FXLayout+Option A 8
MCUC4FXLayout+Option B 8
MCUC4FXLayout+Option C 8
MCUC4FXLayout+Option D 8
The FXPrologue file gets used for any syntax you want to appear at the top of your AutoGeneratedFXZones. Example: if you want to set the X-Touch colors to Cyan whenever you enter an AutoGeneratedFXZone, you would add those instructions to the FXPrologue zone.
Zone FXPrologue
OnZoneActivation SetXTouchDisplayColors Cyan
OnZoneDeactivation RestoreXTouchDisplayColors
ZoneEnd
The FXEpilogue zone gets used for any syntax you want to appear at the end of your AutoGeneratedFXZones. Example: lets say you want Faders1-8 to be disabled whenever you enter an AutoGeneratedFXzone so you don't accidentally change the volume of a track...
Zone FXEpilogue
Fader1 NoAction
Fader2 NoAction
Fader3 NoAction
Fader4 NoAction
Fader5 NoAction
Fader6 NoAction
Fader7 NoAction
Fader8 NoAction
ZoneEnd
Once this is all setup, whenever you activate an FX for which CSI cannot find an FX.zon file, CSI will auto-generate an fx.zon file by assigning the FX parameters in order to the available widgets. Any widgets with no action will get a FXParam value of -1. The zone structure will follow what we setup above including the contents of the prologue and epilogue files. At the end of the zone, you will see the FXParams commented out for easy reference and future copy/posting in case you want to edit these files. CSI will also even try to auto-generate an alias for the fx by stripping out the plugin type and manufacturer name!
Did we mention these files can be very easily edited by copying and pasting the FXParams around to reassign them?
Zone "VST: UAD AMS RMX16 (Universal Audio, Inc.)" "AMS RMX16"
OnZoneActivation SetXTouchDisplayColors Cyan
OnZoneDeactivation RestoreXTouchDisplayColors
MCUFXLayout 1 FXParam 0 "Input Gain"
MCUFXLayout 2 FXParam 1 "Output Gain"
MCUFXLayout 3 FXParam 2 "Program"
MCUFXLayout 4 FXParam 3 "Pre-delay-A"
MCUFXLayout 5 FXParam 4 "Decay-A"
MCUFXLayout 6 FXParam 5 "DecayLO-A"
MCUFXLayout 7 FXParam 6 "DecayHI-A"
MCUFXLayout 8 FXParam 7 "Pre-delay-B"
MCUFXLayout+Shift 1 FXParam 8 "Decay-B"
MCUFXLayout+Shift 2 FXParam 9 "DecayLO-B"
MCUFXLayout+Shift 3 FXParam 10 "DecayHI-B"
MCUFXLayout+Shift 4 FXParam 11 "Wet/Dry"
MCUFXLayout+Shift 5 FXParam 12 "Wet Solo"
MCUFXLayout+Shift 6 FXParam 13 "Power"
MCUFXLayout+Shift 7 FXParam 14 "Bypass"
MCUFXLayout+Shift 8 FXParam 15 "Wet"
MCUFXLayout+Option 1 FXParam 16 "Delta"
MCUFXLayout+Option 2 FXParam -1 ""
MCUFXLayout+Option 3 FXParam -1 ""
MCUFXLayout+Option 4 FXParam -1 ""
MCUFXLayout+Option 5 FXParam -1 ""
MCUFXLayout+Option 6 FXParam -1 ""
MCUFXLayout+Option 7 FXParam -1 ""
MCUFXLayout+Option 8 FXParam -1 ""
Fader1 NoAction
Fader2 NoAction
Fader3 NoAction
Fader4 NoAction
Fader5 NoAction
Fader6 NoAction
Fader7 NoAction
Fader8 NoAction
ZoneEnd
/ 0 "Input Gain"
/ 1 "Output Gain"
/ 2 "Program"
/ 3 "Pre-delay-A"
/ 4 "Decay-A"
/ 5 "DecayLO-A"
/ 6 "DecayHI-A"
/ 7 "Pre-delay-B"
/ 8 "Decay-B"
/ 9 "DecayLO-B"
/ 10 "DecayHI-B"
/ 11 "Wet/Dry"
/ 12 "Wet Solo"
/ 13 "Power"
/ 14 "Bypass"
/ 15 "Wet"
/ 16 "Delta"
ToggleAutoFXMapping will toggle auto-FX mapping. AutoFXMapping is on by default. You can assign this to a button or run this OnInitialization in your home zone to disable AutoFXMapping.
ToggleAutoFocusedFXMapping will toggle automatic FX mapping for Focused FX. ToggleAutoFocusedFXMapping is on by default. You can assign this to a button or run this OnInitialization in your home zone to disable Automatic FX Mapping on focus.
Zone "Home"
OnInitialization ToggleAutoFXMapping // Turns off auto fx mapping
OnIntializiation ToggleAutoFocusedFXMapping // Turns off auto FX mapping on focused FX
CSI now has a new zone type that allows it to automatically map widgets to the TCP fx on the selected track. This has the benefit of allowing a single zone to control multiple FX on the same channel and automatically update as you navigate from track to track. If you've ever used Cubase's Quick Controls, this is a very similar workflow.
See the SelectedTrackTCPFX.zon below for an example of the new zone type and new actions. Note: the first two lines pertain specifically to an X-Touch universal.
Zone "SelectedTrackTCPFX"
OnZoneActivation SetXTouchDisplayColors Cyan
OnZoneDeactivation RestoreXTouchDisplayColors
DisplayUpper1 TCPFXParamNameDisplay 0
DisplayLower1 TCPFXParamValueDisplay 0
Rotary1 TCPFXParam 0
DisplayUpper2 TCPFXParamNameDisplay 1
DisplayLower2 TCPFXParamValueDisplay 1
Rotary2 TCPFXParam 1
DisplayUpper3 TCPFXParamNameDisplay 2
DisplayLower3 TCPFXParamValueDisplay 2
Rotary3 TCPFXParam 2
DisplayUpper4 TCPFXParamNameDisplay 3
DisplayLower4 TCPFXParamValueDisplay 3
Rotary4 TCPFXParam 3
DisplayUpper5 TCPFXParamNameDisplay 4
DisplayLower5 TCPFXParamValueDisplay 4
Rotary5 TCPFXParam 4
DisplayUpper6 TCPFXParamNameDisplay 5
DisplayLower6 TCPFXParamValueDisplay 5
Rotary6 TCPFXParam 5
DisplayUpper7 TCPFXParamNameDisplay 6
DisplayLower7 TCPFXParamValueDisplay 6
Rotary7 TCPFXParam 6
DisplayUpper8 TCPFXParamNameDisplay 7
DisplayLower8 TCPFXParamValueDisplay 7
Rotary8 TCPFXParam 7
ZoneEnd
Now, Sends, Receive, FXMenu zones can span multiple surfaces. Example: if you have two 8-channel surfaces and activate the SelectedTrackSend zone, you will see Sends1-8 on surface 1, and sends 9-16 on surface 2 and they will bank together.
To activate an associated zone, CSI now uses a single GoAssociatedZone action, followed by the name of the zone rather than distinct actions for each zone type.
Removed these...
GoMasterTrack
GoTrackSend
GoTrackReceive
GoTrackFXMenu
GoSelectedTrack
GoSelectedTrackSend
GoSelectedTrackReceive
GoSelectedTrackFXMenu
GoMasterTrackFXMenu
GoSelectedTrackTCPFX
Replaced with (just an example)...
GoAssociatedZone MasterTrack
GoAssociatedZone TrackSend
GoAssociatedZone TrackReceive
GoAssociatedZone TrackFXMenu
GoAssociatedZone SelectedTrack
GoAssociatedZone SelectedTrackSend
GoAssociatedZone SelectedTrackReceive
GoAssociatedZone SelectedTrackFXMenu
GoAssociatedZone MasterTrackFXMenu
GoAssociatedZone SelectedTrackTCPFX
Similar to the above GoAssociatedZone action, there is now a single "Bank" action, and you enter the zone name afterwards followed by the number of channels you want to bank.
Here's the new syntax in a typical Track zone...
BankLeft Bank Track -8
BankRight Bank Track 8
ChannelLeft Bank Track -1
ChannelRight Bank Track 1
And here's the full list of supported Bank zones/types...
Bank Track
Bank VCA
Bank Folder
Bank TrackSend
Bank TrackReceive
Bank TrackFXMenu
Bank SelectedTrack
Bank SelectedTrackSend
Bank SelectedTrackReceive
Bank SelectedTrackFXMenu
Bank MasterTrackFXMenu
A SelectedTracks zone type was added to have surface visibility follow the track selection in Reaper. As the track selection changes in Reaper, the surface visibility will follow. This is particularly handy when combined with scripts to select tracks by name for example.
Zone "SelectedTracks"
DisplayUpper| TrackNameDisplay { Track }
Touch+DisplayLower| TrackVolumeDisplay
DisplayLower| TrackPanAutoLeftDisplay
Shift+DisplayLower| TrackAutoModeDisplay
Toggle+DisplayLower| TrackPanAutoRightDisplay
Alt+DisplayLower| TrackInputMonitorDisplay
Control+DisplayLower| TrackRecordInputDisplay
VUMeter| TrackOutputMeterMaxPeakLR
Fader| TrackVolume
Flip+Fader| TrackPan
Rotary| TrackPanAutoLeft RingStyle=Dot
Toggle+Rotary| TrackPanAutoRight RingStyle=Dot
RotaryPush| ToggleChannel
Shift+RotaryPush| TrackPan [ 0.5 ]
Option+RotaryPush| TrackPanWidth [ 1.0 ]
Alt+RotaryPush| CycleTrackInputMonitor
RecordArm| TrackRecordArm
Shift+RecordArm| CycleTrackAutoMode
Solo| TrackSolo
Mute| TrackMute
Option+Select| TrackInvertPolarity
BankLeft Bank SelectedTracks -8
BankRight Bank SelectedTracks 8
ChannelLeft Bank SelectedTracks -1
ChannelRight Bank SelectedTracks 1
ZoneEnd
Here's the Buttons.zon showing how to activate the SelectedTracks.zon:
Zone "Buttons"
EQ GoAssociatedZone SelectedTracks
Global+EQ GoAssociatedZone Folder
ZoneEnd
And the Home.zon showing the SelectedTracks as an AssociatedZone:
Zone Home
OnInitialization ToggleEnableFocusedFX
OnInitialization ToggleEnableFocusedFXMapping
IncludedZones
Buttons
Track
MasterTrack
IncludedZonesEnd
AssociatedZones
SelectedTracks
SelectedTrackSend
SelectedTrackReceive
SelectedTrackFXMenu
MasterTrackFXMenu
TrackSend
TrackReceive
TrackFXMenu
VCA
Folder
SelectedTrackTCPFX
SelectedTrackTCPFXTemplate
AssociatedZonesEnd
ZoneEnd
CSI now has a MasterTrackFXMenu zone and FocusedFX mapping for Master Track fx. Note: monitor fx are still not supported at this time.
CSI now asks for a specific FX Zone folder location. This is particularly useful if you have more than one surface sharing the same FX Zone folder.
There is a new JSFXParam type that's meant to help improve the mapping of JS FX. Note: some JS FX parameters still give CSI trouble, but most work just out of the box.
If you have a SelectedTrackTCPFXTemplate zone and create a parameter alias for a particular FX, it will be written to the FXParamAliasesCache.txt file and saved for future use in any zones.
To help facilitate easier use of stepped parameters with encoders, CSI includes a FXParamStepValuesCache.txt file which includes the parameter step values for approximately 1,000 common fx. You can manually add to this file if you run into trouble with stepped parameters mapped to endless rotary encoders.
Checking this option will always insure that the selected track is visible on your CSI surface when selected from within Reaper and vice-versa.
This option will ensure that the surface and Reaper's MCP are in sync when one is being scrolled/banked.
This display action will show the current input assigned in a track.zon.
SomeDisplay TrackRecordInputDisplay
The new AllSurfacesGoHome option is meant to tell all surfaces in the page to return to the Home zone.
SomeButton AllSurfacesGoHome
CSI now OSARA speaks modifier latching and unlatching -- e.g., it will speak "Shift locked" and "Shift unlocked".
CSI will automatically attempt to display feedback for a single action, or display the feedback for the first action in a CSI macro action (i.e. one button assigned to trigger more than action). There may be use-cases where you want to disable feedback (example: you have a button that's constantly lit because the action does not report a toggle state), or where you want CSI to report the feedback state of anything other than the first action in a macro list.
Example 1. I've got a single action assigned to a widget, but want to disable feedback on an action...
SomeButton SomeAction Feedback=No
Example 2. I only want feedback on the first action (default behaviour - no additional syntax required)....
SomeButton SomeAction
SomeButton AnotherAction
SomeButton YetAnotherAction
Example 3. I want feedback on the middle action only; so I use the new Feedback widget mode to specify which action gets it....
SomeButton SomeAction
SomeButton AnotherAction Feedback=Yes
SomeButton YetAnotherAction
Example 4. I want feedback on the last action only....
SomeButton SomeAction
SomeButton AnotherAction
SomeButton YetAnotherAction Feedback=Yes
Example 5. Erroneous definition. In this case only the 3rd Action gets feedback.
SomeButton SomeAction
SomeButton AnotherAction Feedback=Yes
SomeButton YetAnotherAction Feedback=Yes
The above referenced change to the feedback behavior should also resolve any problems with extraneous messages being sent or button flickering.
The CSI support files were updated to reflect some of the latest changes.
If you had a Reaper project where tracks that have been left as "last track in folder" when the original folder no longer exists (i.e. "orphaned folder tracks"), Reaper would crash when using CSI's GoFolder action. This crash condition has been resolved.
The code for EZFXZones has been removed in order to keep just a single way of creating FX.zon's. While the EZFXZones used less syntax in some instances, the benefit of the alternate syntax doesn't seem great enough to warrant maintaining.
Prior builds have CSI have had a workaround in the code to prevent runaway feedback when multiple actions were assigned to the same widget. The workaround was to impose a limitation that only the first action would provide feedback to the widget. Example:
SomeButton SomeAction // only this action would provide feedback to the widget
SomeButton AnotherAction // this action would not provide feedback
While this worked reasonably well, you were out of luck if you wanted SomeAction to occur before AnotherAction, but wanted the feedback from AnotherAction.
Now, with feedback available on a per Action basis you can do this:
SomeButton SomeAction Feedback=No
SomeButton AnotherAction
...or even something like this:
SomeButton SomeAction Feedback=No
SomeButton AnotherAction
SomeButton YetAnotherAction Feedback=No
As a result, that "only the first action provides feedback" constraint is no longer necessary.
To help facilitate troubleshooting of .zon files, particularly when you may have multiple zone folders or aren't sure which zone is currently active, the "CSI Toggle Show Input from Surfaces" action in Reaper will now show the full zone file path in addition to the action.
Example:
IN <- XTouchOne Play 1.000000
Zone -- C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Roaming\REAPER/CSI/Zones/X-Touch_One_FB/Buttons.zon
...looking at this, I can see the full path to the zone file that was active when I pressed the Play button.
Previously, WidgetMode was used to set the encoder ring style and FaderPort display types. In addition, Property+NoFeedback was used for disabling feedback. This old implementation required multiple lines for these additional commands.
New functionality has been implemented to replace WidgetMode and Property+NoFeedback, keeping everything on a single line. Because of this new syntax, existing .zon files will need to be updated to function properly.
For example, this [old syntax] has been replaced...
Rotary| TrackPanAutoLeft
Rotary| WidgetMode Dot
...with just this [new syntax]:
Rotary| TrackPanAutoLeft RingStyle=Dot
This [old syntax]...
Up Reaper _XENAKIOS_TVPAGEUP // Xenakios/SWS: Scroll track view up (page)
Property+Up NoFeedback
Has been replaced with this [new syntax]:
Up Reaper _XENAKIOS_TVPAGEUP Feedback=No // Xenakios/SWS: Scroll track view up (page)
The new functionality is similarly dependent on the type of feedback processor used in your .mst for a given widget.
If using FB_Encoder, then the available options are:
RingStyle=Dot
RingStyle=BoostCut
RingStyle=Fill
RingStyle=Spread
If using FB_FaderportValueBar, then the available options are"
BarStyle=Normal
BarStyle=BiPolar
BarStyle=Fill
BarStyle=Spread
If using FB_FP8ScribbleStripMode, then the available options are:
Mode=0
Mode=1
Mode=2
....
Mode=8
If using FB_FP8ScribbleLine1, etc., then the available options are:
TextAlign=Center
TextAlign=Left
TextAlign=Right
TextInvert=Yes
TextInvert=No
Code changes deployed to get the Select buttons working correctly on the X32/MIDAS series consoles. Thanks to forum user jacksoonbrowne for the code.
Using the new EZFXZones, you can now have fixed text appear in a display with no parameter assigned to it (FX Param -1). See the example below...
Zone "VST: UAD Fairchild 660 (Universal Audio, Inc.)" "Fairchild 660"
FXParams 1 2 3 7 4 6 9 8
FXParamNames "Input Gain" Threshold "Time Constant" "Output Gain" "SC Filter" "DC Thresh" Headroom Mix
FXValueWidgets RotaryA|
FXParamNameDisplays DisplayUpperA|
FXParamValueDisplays DisplayLowerA|
FXParams 5 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 12
FXParamNames Bal Meter "Fixed" "Text" "Example" "Here" "" Wet
FXValueWidgets RotaryB|
FXParamNameDisplays DisplayUpperB|
FXParamValueDisplays DisplayLowerB|
ZoneEnd
Removed string feedback for GoVCA and GoFolder, FXBypassDisplay and FXOfflineDisplay provide string feedback
Changes to feedback on OSC to prevent issues with two messages of different types being sent simultaneousy.
Small change to further improve negative measure display on TimeDisplay widgets in Measure mode.
GoMasterTrack was added to activate the MasterTrack zone for fader surfaces that do not have a dedicated master track fader. Be sure to include this as an AssociatedZone in your Home.zon.
Zone "Buttons"
SomeButton GoMasterTrack
ZoneEnd
Fix for TrackBank Not Updating Channel Count to Account for Hidden Tracks
After hiding a track in Reaper, CSI was not updating it's internal track count to adjust for hidden tracks. This has been resolved.
The Zoom modifier was broken in a recent build. This has been fixed.
The Touch modifier recently stopped working outside of Track Zones. So for example, Touch would do nothing when used as a modifier in an FX.zon. This has ben resolved.
Fix for the MCUTimeDisplay action incorrectly displaying negative measures when in Bars/Beats/Ticks mode. Thanks to Reaper forum user StereoDidi for the code contribution for this fix!
For visually impaired users, SpeakTrackSendDestination and SpeakTrackReceiveSource actions will now also speak the Track #.
There is a possible fix for an issue with CSI speaking twice when using certain screen readers.
The following new actions were added for OSARA users in order to allow CSI to speak the FX Menu Name of a plugin (SpeakFXMenuName) in the menu, or the track send destination (SpeakTrackSendDestination), or the receive source (SpeakTrackReceiveSource). These can be assigned to widgets to trigger when these actions take place.
Zone "SelectedTrackFXMenu"
RecArm SpeakFXMenuName
...
Zone "SelectedTrackSend"
RecArm SpeakTrackSendDestination
...
Zone "SelectedTrackReceive"
RecArm SpeakTrackReceiveSource
...
Users can now transmit colors to OSC surfaces using the standard Hex color format. These messages are transmitted to OSCAddress + "/Color" and formatted as #rrggbbaa. You will need to have your OSC widget setup to receive and respond to colors at that address. Note: as of the time of this writing, TouchOSC support for Hex colors with the hash characters is currently in beta (build 149).
Thanks to Reaper forum user Diesel, users of the MIDI Fighter Twister can turn off LED button lights on the device by sending RGB messages of 0 0 0 to the device. Thanks Diesel!
RotaryPushB5 FXParam 999 { 0 0 0 }
SendOSCMessage is designed to send arbitrary OSC messages to the address specified in the action. The syntax is [Widget/Virtual Widget] SendOSCMessage "[OSC address] [Value]" as shown in the examples below...
OnInitialization SendOSCMessage "/Displays/UpperDisplay1 aString". // String
OnInitialization SendOSCMessage "/Displays/LowerDisplay1 -123" // 32-bit integer
OnInitialization SendOSCMessage "/Displays/ValueDisplay1 24.98". // Float
If you're using a MIDI surface with encoders, you can now define the default StepSize (resolution) and Acceleration in your .mst file and these settings will be carried into all Zone types. This allows you to define these values once, and avoid having to repeatedly define them in zone files.
A refresher on what this might look like in an .mst...
StepSize
RotaryWidgetClass 0.003
StepSizeEnd
AccelerationValues
RotaryWidgetClass Dec 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48
RotaryWidgetClass Inc 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08
RotaryWidgetClass Val 0.005 0.01 0.02 0.04 0.05 0.06 0.08 0.1
AccelerationValuesEnd
/...
Widget Rotary1 RotaryWidgetClass
Encoder b0 10 7f
FB_Encoder b0 10 7f
WidgetEnd
Widget Rotary2 RotaryWidgetClass
Encoder b0 11 7f
FB_Encoder b0 11 7f
WidgetEnd
Widget Rotary3 RotaryWidgetClass
Encoder b0 12 7f
FB_Encoder b0 12 7f
WidgetEnd
Widget Rotary4 RotaryWidgetClass
Encoder b0 13 7f
FB_Encoder b0 13 7f
WidgetEnd
Widget Rotary5 RotaryWidgetClass
Encoder b0 14 7f
FB_Encoder b0 14 7f
WidgetEnd
Widget Rotary6 RotaryWidgetClass
Encoder b0 15 7f
FB_Encoder b0 15 7f
WidgetEnd
Widget Rotary7 RotaryWidgetClass
Encoder b0 16 7f
FB_Encoder b0 16 7f
WidgetEnd
Widget Rotary8 RotaryWidgetClass
Encoder b0 17 7f
FB_Encoder b0 17 7f
WidgetEnd
If you're utilizing the new ZoneStepSizes feature, CSI will automatically create a tick-count list for comfortably cycling through stepped parameters so they're not going by too quickly to be useful or too slowly to be enjoyable. First, you need to define your encoders using the RotaryWidgetClass, StepSize, and DefaultAcceleration features in the .mst. Once you have that, you just need a .stp file (ZoneStepFile) for any fx you map. CSI does the rest!
Bug fixes for an EZFXZone crash when parsing an incorrect syntax and a fix for the DisplayMode "Spread" setting not working as expected.
Previously, modifiers such as Shift, Alt, Control, and Option were strictly "Global Modifiers": engaging the modifier on one surface, would enable that modifier on all devices. Now, a new CSI.ini preference has been added that will allow surfaces to set their modifiers locally (i.e. modifiers will not impact any other surface than the one where they were engaged). To make the change, add the word LocalModifiers prior to the surface name under each Page where you'd like to enable local modifiers.
Version 2.0
MidiSurface "XTouchOne" 7 9
MidiSurface "MFTwister" 6 8
OSCSurface "iPad Pro" 8003 9003 10.0.0.146
OSCSurface "TouchOSCLocal" 8002 9002 10.0.0.100
MidiSurface "CMC-QC" 23 24
Page "HomePage"
LocalModifiers "XTouchOne" 1 0 "X-Touch_One.mst" "X-Touch_One_FB"
"MFTwister" 8 0 "MIDIFighterTwisterEncoder.mst" "FXTwisterFocusedFX"
"iPad Pro" 8 0 "MCU-Pad.ost" "MCU"
"TouchOSCLocal" 8 0 "FXTwister.ost" "FXTwisterFocusedFX"
"CMC-QC" 0 0 "Stienberg_CMC-QC-2.mst" "Steinberg_CMC-QC-2"
Thanks to absolutely huge contributions from Reaper forum user jacksoonbrowne, the Behringer X32 is now supported in CSI via OSC. These devices have a very unique OSC implementation that required substantial code contributions.
The X32 implementation is an on-going work in progress and many more features will be added to the support files.
For these to work:
- Add a new OSC device as per the Installation and Setup instructions.
- In the CSI Device setup, the "CSI sends to port" and "CSI recieves on port" must both be set to port 10023 for the X32/M32 or port 10024 for the XAir series.
- If you're creating your own .ost, the .ost must contain either "X32" or "x32" somewhere in filename. Note: a set of files for the Behringer X32 has been added to the CSI Support Files.
Examples:
BehringerX32.ost
X32Surface.ost
SurfaceX32.ost
Surface_x32Intance1.ost
SurfaceX32Intance2.ost
An additional special thanks goes out to Patrick-Gilles Maillot for having documented the X32 OSC protocol here.
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// Reaper CSI X32/Xair/Midas32 support files installation notes.
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Go to the below URL to download and retrieve the most recent versions of support files and place them in the CSI file structure appropriately:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/upw6bjujgm8wp1gjz3bel/h?dl=0&rlkey=n3japvturdtzbeqjyob5e69d2
Having done that, load the X32 scene file from "CSI\Behringer X32 Scene\CSI-X32-Config.scn", and place it on a USB thumb drive that is 32Gbytes or less, and formatted as "FAT32".
Follow the instructions from Behringer web site for the X32 on how to download a scene from a USB stick and install the scene.
And then load that scene on the X32.
This scene will configure the "Assignable sections: rotaries and buttons" to control the "Transport" as per the current X32 .ost and .zon files.
If the number of channels in Reaper was fewer than the number of tracks on your surface, selecting a track on the surface would not scroll that track into view in Reaper. This should fix that problem.
Several enhancements in this build pertain to work happening around EZFXZones and helping build up to auto-mapping of FX. As a result, there are some changes that can be made to MIDI Surface Template (mst) files to streamline how encoders are used in EZFXZones, creating some default behaviors, and eventually help allow for auto-mapping FX. Note: these tweaks are optional and fully backwards compatible with prior .mst files so no changes are required.
RotaryWidgetClass is designed to help streamline how encoders are defined in .mst files and tell CSI which widgets are encoders. There are multiple elements to how this is used in an .mst file.
First, by putting the word RotaryWidgetClass after the widget name in the .mst file, you are telling CSI, "this widget belongs in the rotary widget class" (as shown below). In a moment, we'll show you what that allows for.
Widget RotaryA1 RotaryWidgetClass
Encoder b0 00 7f
FB_Fader7Bit b0 00 00
WidgetEnd
The same can be done with your JogWheel using the new JogWheelWidgetClass.
Widget JogWheel JogWheelWidgetClass
Encoder b0 3c 7f
WidgetEnd
Now that the RotaryWidgetClass and/or JogWheelWidgetClass is defined for our encdoers, we can set the encoder StepSize globally by adding this to the top of the .mst file. This represents how fine the resolution will be for each encoder "tick". A value of 0.001 will be very fine and move parameters one-tenth of one-percent, which is very fine. If you find that resolution a little too fine, resulting in slow encoders, you may have better luck with a value of 0.003 or some other higher value. It will really depend on your hardware surfaces and preferences.
Here is an example from the X-Touch.mst showing both class types, each using a StepSize of 0.003.
StepSize
RotaryWidgetClass 0.003
JogWheelWidgetClass 0.003
StepSizeEnd
The encoders on MIDI Fighter Twister are very sensitive, so I might use a StepSize of 0.001 for that surface.
StepSize
RotaryWidgetClass 0.001
StepSizeEnd
Next, we can then remove the Encoder Acceleration step values from each individual widget and just create a global set of acceleration values at the top of the .mst file. The benefit of this approach is that rather than being required to define the Encoder Acceleration in each EZFXZone, CSI can now use a default for all encoders in the RotaryWidgetClass.
Here we are defining the Decrease values ("Dec") from slowest encoder turns to fastest, and the same for the Increase ("Inc") values. Below that, you will find one encoder acceleration value ("Val") for each encoder acceleration step. The actual values used will depend on what your encoder transmits. The values below are from a MIDI Fighter Twister and my own personal acceleration curve.
AccelerationValues
RotaryWidgetClass Dec 3f 3e 3d 3c 3b 3a 39 38 36 33 2f
RotaryWidgetClass Inc 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 4a 4d 51
RotaryWidgetClass Val 0.001 0.002 0.003 0.004 0.005 0.006 0.0075 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04
AccelerationValuesEnd
So in the past, each of my MFTEncoder widgets looked like the this...
Widget RotaryA1
MFTEncoder b0 00 7f [ < 3f 3e 3d 3c 3b 3a 39 38 36 33 2f > 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 4a 4d 51 ]
FB_Fader7Bit b0 00 00
WidgetEnd
Now we've got this text at the top of the .mst
StepSize
RotaryWidgetClass 0.001
StepSizeEnd
AccelerationValues
RotaryWidgetClass Dec 3f 3e 3d 3c 3b 3a 39 38 36 33 2f
RotaryWidgetClass Inc 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 4a 4d 51
RotaryWidgetClass Val 0.001 0.002 0.003 0.004 0.005 0.006 0.0075 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04
AccelerationValuesEnd
And the encoder widgets look like this (Note: MFTEncoder has been replaced with the standard Encoder widget since all the instructions are now up top).
Widget RotaryA1 RotaryWidgetClass
Encoder b0 00 7f
FB_Fader7Bit b0 00 00
WidgetEnd
Here is an example from the X-Touch.mst where the step size is 0.003 and the AccelerationValues line up with MCU-style devices.
StepSize
RotaryWidgetClass 0.003
JogWheelWidgetClass 0.003
StepSizeEnd
AccelerationValues
RotaryWidgetClass Dec 41 42 43 44 45 46 47
RotaryWidgetClass Inc 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
RotaryWidgetClass Val 0.0006 0.001 0.002 0.003 0.008 0.04 0.08
JogWheelWidgetClass Dec 41 42 43 44 45 46 47
JogWheelWidgetClass Inc 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
JogWheelWidgetClass Val 0.0006 0.001 0.002 0.003 0.008 0.04 0.08
AccelerationValuesEnd
Another feature instituted now as part of the roadmap to auto-mapping FX is the addition of the "Ewidget" option in .mst files. This will eventually be used to tell CSI which widgets you'd like automatically included for automatic FX.zon mapping and which widgets you'd like excluded from that. Anything defined as an EWidget will be eligible for mapping. Here are some examples from an X-Touch.mst where we are using Displays, Rotarypush, Rotary, and Faders for FX mapping.
EWidget DisplayUpper1
FB_XTouchDisplayUpper 0
EWidgetEnd
EWidget Fader1
Fader14Bit e0 7f 7f
FB_Fader14Bit e0 7f 7f
Touch 90 68 7f 90 68 00
EWidgetEnd
EWidget RotaryPush1
Press 90 20 7f 90 20 00
EWidgetEnd
EWidget Rotary1 RotaryWidgetClass
Encoder b0 10 7f
FB_Encoder b0 10 7f
EWidgetEnd
The CSI Support Files now include a "ZoneStepSizes" sub-folder within the Zones folder. These files will be used by CSI in EZFXZones to determine which FX Parameters are stepped, how many steps each parameter has, and what the exact step values are. Again, this is another feature meant to simplify EZFXZone creation. Once a ZoneStepFile exists for a plugin, it shouldn't need to change (unless the developer adds new automation parameters) and can be shared. The CSI Support Files currently include ZoneFXFiles for almost 500 FX to get users started.
If you'd like to create some .stp files for your own use, you can add the below "AutoScan" line to your CSI.ini. The AutoScan process only attempts to create the .stp files for fx you already have a .zon for. It will not create .stp files for all FX. Note: this is an experimental feature and works better on Mac right now. If you run into issues, I'd encourage you to turn the AutoScan off by commenting out that line. When the AutoScan is complete and ZoneStepSize files created, you should also comment out (with a forward slash) or delete that line in your CSI.
Version 2.0
AutoScan
MidiSurface "XTouchOne" 7 9
MidiSurface "MFTwister" 6 8
OSCSurface "iPad Pro" 8003 9003 10.0.0.146
OSCSurface "TouchOSCLocal" 8002 9002 10.0.0.100
MidiSurface "CMC-QC" 23 24
Page "HomePage"
"XTouchOne" 1 0 "X-Touch_One.mst" "X-Touch_One_FB"
"MFTwister" 8 0 "MIDIFighterTwisterEncoder.mst" "FXTwisterMenu"
"iPad Pro" 8 0 "FXTwister.ost" "FXTwisterMenu"
"TouchOSCLocal" 8 0 "FXTwister.ost" "FXTwisterMenu"
"CMC-QC" 0 0 "Stienberg_CMC-QC-2.mst" "Steinberg_CMC-QC-2"
When a .stp file exists for a plugin, things like the below example are no longer required in EZFXZones. CSI will already know the step values and will automatically create a curve for your surface to move through each step if that parameter is assigned to an encoder.
FXParamStepValues 1 0.0 0.05 0.11 0.16 0.21 0.26 0.32 0.37 0.42 0.47 0.53 0.58 0.63 0.68 0.74 0.79 0.84 0.89 0.95 1.0
If you've got Step Files for your FX, and made the changes outlined above, EZFXZones get much easier. The block of text at the bottom dictating the default acceleration and FX Step sizes are no longer required.
Before...
Zone "VST: UAD Fairchild 660 (Universal Audio, Inc.)" "Fair660"
FXParams 1 2 3 7 4 6 9 8
FXParamNames "Input Gain" Threshold "Time Constant" "Output Gain" "SC Filter" "DC Thresh" Headroom Mix
FXValueWidgets RotaryA|
FXParamNameDisplays DisplayUpperA|
FXParamValueDisplays DisplayLowerA|
FXParams 5 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 12
FXParamNames Bal Meter "" "" "" "" "" Wet
FXValueWidgets RotaryB|
FXParamNameDisplays DisplayUpperB|
FXParamValueDisplays DisplayLowerB|
FXParams -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1
FXParamNames "" "" "" "" "" "" "" ""
FXValueWidgets RotaryPushA|
FXParamNameDisplays DisplayRotaryPushA|
FXParams -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 13 11
FXParamNames "" "" "" "" "" "" Delta Bypass
FXValueWidgets RotaryPushB|
FXParamNameDisplays DisplayRotaryPushB|
DefaultAcceleration 0.001 0.002 0.003 0.004 0.005 0.006 0.0075 0.01 0.02 0.035 0.04
FXParamStepValues 0 0.0 0.50 1.0
FXParamStepValues 1 0.0 0.05 0.11 0.16 0.21 0.26 0.32 0.37 0.42 0.47 0.53 0.58 0.63 0.68 0.74 0.79 0.84 0.89 0.95 1.0
FXParamStepValues 3 0.0 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 1.0
FXParamStepValues 9 0.0 0.17 0.33 0.50 0.67 0.83 1.0
ZoneEnd
After...
Zone "VST: UAD Fairchild 660 (Universal Audio, Inc.)" "Fair660"
FXParams 1 2 3 7 4 6 9 8
FXParamNames "Input Gain" Threshold "Time Constant" "Output Gain" "SC Filter" "DC Thresh" Headroom Mix
FXValueWidgets RotaryA|
FXParamNameDisplays DisplayUpperA|
FXParamValueDisplays DisplayLowerA|
FXParams 5 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 12
FXParamNames Bal Meter "" "" "" "" "" Wet
FXValueWidgets RotaryB|
FXParamNameDisplays DisplayUpperB|
FXParamValueDisplays DisplayLowerB|
FXParams -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1
FXParamNames "" "" "" "" "" "" "" ""
FXValueWidgets RotaryPushA|
FXParamNameDisplays DisplayRotaryPushA|
FXParams -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 13 11
FXParamNames "" "" "" "" "" "" Delta Bypass
FXValueWidgets RotaryPushB|
FXParamNameDisplays DisplayRotaryPushB|
ZoneEnd
CSI has added new "radio-button style" modifiers designed to allow for expanded functionality with MCU-style surfaces. By radio-button style, that means you cannot combine these modifiers like you can Global Modifiers (e.g. you can't combine Zoom+Scrub, but you can combine Zoom+Shift).
In the below example, Marker, Nudge and Zoom modifiers are being used with the arrow buttons to expand how they function in a logical way, without the need for separate sub-zones for these tasks. If you prefer to use SubZones in lieu of these modifiers, you may still continue to do so - the new modifiers are entirely optional. The new modifiers are also not limited to the arrow keys and could of course be used elsewhere.
Zone "Buttons"
Marker Marker
Nudge Nudge
Zoom Zoom
Up Reaper _XENAKIOS_TVPAGEUP // Xenakios/SWS: Scroll track view up (page)
Down Reaper _XENAKIOS_TVPAGEDOWN // Xenakios-SWS: Scroll track view down
Left Reaper _SWS_SCROLL_L10 // SWS: Scroll left 10%
Right Reaper _SWS_SCROLL_R10 // SWS: Scroll right 10%
Zoom+Up Reaper 40111 // Zoom in vertical
Zoom+Down Reaper 40112 // Zoom out vertical
Zoom+Right Reaper 1012 // Zoom in horizontal
Zoom+Left Reaper 1011 // Zoom out horizontal
Marker+Up Reaper 40613 // Delete marker near cursor
Marker+Down Reaper 40157 // Insert marker at current or edit position
Marker+Right Reaper 40173 // Go to next marker or project end
Marker+Left Reaper 40172 // Go to previous marker or project start
Nudge+Up Reaper 41925 // Item: Nudge items volume +1dB
Nudge+Down Reaper 41924 // Item: Nudge items volume -1dB
Nudge+Left Reaper 41279 // Item edit: Nudge left by saved nudge dialog settings 1
Nudge+Right Reaper 41275 // Item edit: Nudge right by saved nudge dialog settings 1
ZoneEnd
GlobalModeDisplay will display the current state of the new Global modifier. When the modifier is off, it will show "SE" for "Selected Track" and when the modifier is enabled, it will show "GL" for "Global". It is designed with MCU-style surfaces in mind so that when you see the Plugin button lit, indicating you are in an FXMenu zone, the SE/GL text will let you know if you're using the SelectedTrack or Track (aka "Global") variant.
In the example below we see the GlobalModeDisplay on the MCU AssignmentDisplay widget, and we also see how the new Global modifier can be used to load the "Track/Global" variants of the various zone types.
Zone "Buttons"
// Encoder Assign Buttons
Track GoHome
Pan GoVCA
EQ GoFolder
Send GoSelectedTrackSend
Global+Send GoTrackSend
Plugin GoSelectedTrackFXMenu
Global+Plugin GoTrackFXMenu
Instrument GoSelectedTrackReceive
Global+Instrument GoTrackReceive
GlobalView Global
AssignmentDisplay GlobalModeDisplay
Note: the new Global modifier is a "Global Modifier" like Shift, Control, and Alt, and not a "radio-button style" modifier like Marker and Zoom.
Below, we also see the Global modifier being used on the automation buttons to indicate whether you're changing the SelectedTrack (SE) variant of those actions or the Global Automation Modes.
Read TrackAutoMode 1
Write TrackAutoMode 3
Trim TrackAutoMode 0
Touch TrackAutoMode 2
Latch TrackAutoMode 4
Group TrackAutoMode 5
Global+Read GlobalAutoMode 1
Global+Write GlobalAutoMode 3
Global+Trim GlobalAutoMode 0
Global+Touch GlobalAutoMode 2
Global+Latch GlobalAutoMode 4
Global+Group GlobalAutoMode 5
This action was designed to allow a way to easily clear all CSI global modifiers (e.g. Shift, Alt, Option, Control) with a single button press or automatically based on a certain trigger using Virtual Widgets. This action will not clear the Toggle modifier (or Touch - which makes sense if you're currently touching something). One example use-case for this new action: a user may want to clear all modifiers whenever the Home Zone is activated as shown below...
Zone "Home"
OnZoneActivation ClearModifiers
IncludedZones
"Buttons"
"SelectedTrack"
"MasterTrack"
IncludedZonesEnd
AssociatedZones
"SelectedTrackSend"
"SelectedTrackReceive"
AssociatedZonesEnd
ZoneEnd
Zone
Now you can assign two different Reaper actions to a single encoder based on which way the encoder is being turned, Counter-Clockwise (CCW) or Clockwise (CW). We do this via the Decrease and Increase modifiers. Note: these modifiers only work with Encoders. The examples below all show the JogWheel but this functionality will work with any encoder.
Zone "Zoom"
Decrease+JogWheel Reaper 41326 // Decrease track height
Increase+JogWheel Reaper 41325 // Increase track height
ZoneEnd
Important Note: for this to work on your JogWheel, you will need to update your .mst file. If you're coming from a prior version of CSI, you probably have two or more separate JogWheel widgets, and those widgets probably are defined using Press instead of Encoder. So replace your JogWheel widgets to look like this (assuming MCU-style surface):
Widget JogWheel
Encoder b0 3c 7f
WidgetEnd
The following native CSI actions support this same syntax:
TrackBank
VCABank
FolderBank
SelectedTrackSendBank
SelectedTrackReceiveBank
SelectedTrackFXMenuBank
TrackSendBank
TrackReceiveBank
TrackFXMenuBank
Example:
Zone "Buttons"
Decrease+JogWheel TrackBank -1
Increase+JogWheel TrackBank 1
ZoneEnd
Note: consider this feature extra-experimental. This is not ready for production projects yet. Also, some actions described below are currently still being coded.
EZFXZones are a new way of writing FX Zones that uses far fewer lines, and saves a lot of the tedious repetition of the legacy fx.zon format (which is not going away). These new FX zones follow a spreadhseet-like format where you read both across and down.
Diving right into a real-world example, the first and last lines of any fx.zon remain unchanged. After that, the first block of text starting with "FXParams" is saying FXParam 9, which, reading down, we are giving the alias "HeadRoom", gets assigned to Rotary1. You will see the FXParamName on DisplayUpper1, and you will see the FXParamValue on DisplayLower1. Reading across on line 2 again, FXParam 1, "Input", will get assigned to Rotary2 (we're reading down again), with the FXParamName name showing up on DisplayUpper2 and FXParamValueName on DisplayLower2. And on and on.
Zone "VST: UAD Fairchild 660 (Universal Audio, Inc.)" "Fair660"
FXParams 9 1 2 3 6 7 0 8
FXParamNames HdRoom Input Thresh Ratio Knee Output Meter WetDry
FXValueWidgets Rotary|
FXParamNameDisplays DisplayUpper|
FXParamValueDisplays DisplayLower|
ZoneEnd
Note: using the legacy FX.zon syntax, this simple mapping would've required something like 40 lines of code. The new EZFXZone syntax accomplishes all the same functionality in only 5 lines! If you wanted, you could stop right there; that could be an entire fx.zon!
Now, if we want to add a modifier, we add the next block of text shown below. Very similar layout, except there is one more row, with the addition of the FXWidgetModifiers Shift line. This says, show FXParam 5, "DC Bal", on Shift+Rotary1 and the corresponding Shift-Displays. Also note that "DC Bal" is in quotes - these are only required because there is a space in what we want to appear on the display. Next, if you continue reading across, you see a series of -1 entries in the FXParams row and double quotes in the corresponding FXParamNames rows. This tells CSI, "No Action here and clear out the displays".
Zone "VST: UAD Fairchild 660 (Universal Audio, Inc.)" "Fair660"
FXParams 9 1 2 3 6 7 0 8
FXParamNames HdRoom Input Thresh Ratio Knee Output Meter WetDry
FXValueWidgets Rotary|
FXParamNameDisplays DisplayUpper|
FXParamValueDisplays DisplayLower|
FXParams 5 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 4
FXParamNames "DC Bal" "" "" "" "" "" "" SidChn
FXValueWidgets Rotary|
FXParamNameDisplays DisplayUpper|
FXParamValueDisplays DisplayLower|
FXWidgetModifiers Shift
ZoneEnd
Now, let's say I want RotaryPush8 to toggle the FX Bypass state, but it's the only toggle-style action I need and I don't necessarily need to see that on a display. You can simply add another block with that specific instruction on the one widget:
Zone "VST: UAD Fairchild 660 (Universal Audio, Inc.)" "Fair660"
FXParams 9 1 2 3 6 7 0 8
FXParamNames HdRoom Input Thresh Ratio Knee Output Meter WetDry
FXValueWidgets Rotary|
FXParamNameDisplays DisplayUpper|
FXParamValueDisplays DisplayLower|
FXParams 5 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 4
FXParamNames "DC Bal" "" "" "" "" "" "" SidChn
FXValueWidgets Rotary|
FXParamNameDisplays DisplayUpper|
FXParamValueDisplays DisplayLower|
FXWidgetModifiers Shift
FXParams 11
FXValueWidgets RotaryPush8
ZoneEnd
Now, how do we deal with stepped params, encoder acceleration, step sizes, colors, etc.? We simply add those to a new block of text at the bottom and define them on a per-parameter basis (except DefaultAcceleration, which is not at a per-parameter level).
Zone "VST: UAD Fairchild 660 (Universal Audio, Inc.)" "Fair660"
FXParams 9 1 2 3 6 7 0 8
FXParamNames HdRoom Input Thresh Ratio Knee Output Meter WetDry
FXValueWidgets Rotary|
FXParamNameDisplays DisplayUpper|
FXParamValueDisplays DisplayLower|
FXParams 5 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 4
FXParamNames "DC Bal" "" "" "" "" "" "" SidChn
FXValueWidgets Rotary|
FXParamNameDisplays DisplayUpper|
FXParamValueDisplays DisplayLower|
FXWidgetModifiers Shift
FXParams 11
FXValueWidgets RotaryPush8
Left FXParamsBank -1
Right FXParamsBank 1
DefaultAcceleration 0.001 0.002 0.003 0.004 0.005 0.006 0.0075 0.01 0.02 0.035 0.05
FXParamAcceleration 7 0.001 0.002 0.003 0.004 0.005 0.006 0.0075 0.01 0.02 0.025 0.03
FXParamStepSize 0 0.5
FXParamStepValues 1 0.0 0.05 0.11 0.16 0.21 0.26 0.32 0.37 0.42 0.47 0.53 0.58 0.63 0.68 0.74 0.79 0.84 0.89 0.95 1.0
FXParamStepValues 3 0.0 0.20 0.40 0.60 0.80 1.0
FXParamStepValues 9 0.0 0.17 0.33 0.50 0.67 0.83 1.0
FXParamTickCounts 3 3
FXWidgetModes 1 BoostCut
FXWidgetModes 7 BoostCut
FXParamColors 11 #ff0000 #00ff007f
ZoneEnd
So let's look at the new additions: what happens if you have more than 8 FXParams you want to assign to your 8-channel unit? You can continue adding additional FXParams in lines 2 and 3, then CSI will allow you to bank to the next FXParam via the FXParamsBank actions. Banking will also allow for mapping fx on 1-fader surfaces.
DefaultAcceleration is optional but allows you to set a custom acceleration curve to all encoders (there are per-parameter curves as well).
The next set of actions are all on per-parameter basis. Notice how the syntax is the action type, the FXParam #, then the instructions with no need for brackets as used in traditional fx.zon files. So you can further still create parameter-level custom acceleration curves using the FXParamAcceleration action. FXParamStepSize is used to set the step size for an encoder tick on a FX Param. FXParamStepValues is used for stepped params. FXParamTickCounts sets the number of encoder ticks CSI must receive before advancing the FXParamValue. FXWidgetModes allow you to set display WidgetModes on a per-parameter baseis. Lastly, FXParamColors can be used by supported surfaces to send RGBA colors (in hex format) to a supported widget. Note: CSI will be moving away from RGB to Hex everywhere.
At the time of this writing, the following actions have been implemented
FXParams
FXParamNames
FXValueWidgets
FXParamNameDisplays
FXParamValueDisplays
FXParamAcceleration
FXParamRange
FXParamStepSize
FXParamStepValues
FXParamTickCounts
FXParamColors (now uses Hex colors)
DefaultAcceleration
The following actions are coming soon.
FXParamsBank
FXWidgetModes
There is a new implementation and set of corresponding zones (see the X-Touch folder in the CSI Support Files for examples), of Folder and VCA modes. Track is your basic Track.zon, there's no change there. When you use a GoFolder action to activate Folder mode, only Reaper's Folder tracks become visible, and you can press the Select [or any user-defined] button to drill down into the folder. After drilling down, the parent folder track is the first track on the left, and child tracks are on the right. There's an identical implementation for VCA leaders and followers via the GoVCA navigation action.
The new actions for these modes are:
GoTrack
GoVCA
GoFolder
TrackVCALeaderDisplay
TrackFolderParentDisplay
TrackToggleVCASpill
TrackToggleFolderSpill
And here is an example of the new Folder.zon:
Zone "Folder"
DisplayUpper| TrackNameDisplay
Fader|Touch+DisplayLower| TrackVolumeDisplay
DisplayLower| TrackFolderParentDisplay
Shift+DisplayLower| TrackAutoModeDisplay
Toggle+DisplayLower| TrackPanAutoRightDisplay
Alt+DisplayLower| TrackInputMonitorDisplay
VUMeter| TrackOutputMeterMaxPeakLR
Fader| TrackVolume
Flip+Fader| TrackPan
Rotary| TrackPanAutoLeft
Rotary| WidgetMode Dot
Toggle+Rotary| TrackPanAutoRight
Toggle+Rotary| WidgetMode Dot
RotaryPush| ToggleChannel
Shift+RotaryPush| TrackPan [ 0.5 ]
Option+RotaryPush| TrackPanWidth [ 1.0 ]
Alt+RotaryPush| CycleTrackInputMonitor
RecordArm| TrackRecordArm
Shift+RecordArm| CycleTrackAutoMode
Solo| TrackSolo
Mute| TrackMute
Select| TrackToggleFolderSpill
Shift+Select| TrackRangeSelect
Control+Select| TrackSelect
BankLeft FolderBank -8
BankRight FolderBank 8
ChannelLeft FolderBank -1
ChannelRight FolderBank 1
ZoneEnd
And here's a sample VCA.zon:
Zone "VCA"
DisplayUpper| TrackNameDisplay
Fader|Touch+DisplayLower| TrackVolumeDisplay
DisplayLower| TrackVCALeaderDisplay
Shift+DisplayLower| TrackAutoModeDisplay
Toggle+DisplayLower| TrackPanAutoRightDisplay
Alt+DisplayLower| TrackInputMonitorDisplay
VUMeter| TrackOutputMeterMaxPeakLR
Fader| TrackVolume
Flip+Fader| TrackPan
Rotary| TrackPanAutoLeft
Rotary| WidgetMode Dot
Toggle+Rotary| TrackPanAutoRight
Toggle+Rotary| WidgetMode Dot
RotaryPush| ToggleChannel
Shift+RotaryPush| TrackPan [ 0.5 ]
Option+RotaryPush| TrackPanWidth [ 1.0 ]
Alt+RotaryPush| CycleTrackInputMonitor
RecordArm| TrackRecordArm
Shift+RecordArm| CycleTrackAutoMode
Solo| TrackSolo
Mute| TrackMute
Select| TrackToggleVCASpill
Shift+Select| TrackRangeSelect
Control+Select| TrackSelect
BankLeft VCABank -8
BankRight VCABank 8
ChannelLeft VCABank -1
ChannelRight VCABank 1
ZoneEnd
With the addition of the GoTrack, GoVCA, GoFolder actions, the CycleTrackVCAFolderModes was removed. Please transition to using the new zones and zone activation actions.
CSI has been expanded to support Hex colors on actions. One can currently use RGB (legacy) or Hex (do not mix and match). For instance, if you wanted a particular button on your OSC surface to change colors based on whether or not the new VCA zone was active, you could do that as shown below.
ButtonM31 GoVCA { #6437017f #FA95017f }
The AnyPress Message Generator is now available to be used in .ost files for OSC surfaces such as the Behringer X32/Midas series.
There were some recent fixes to Zone on/off colors on OSC surfaces, as well as fixes to track selection and ScrollLink introduced due to recent changes to Track Visibility.
OSARA is described as "a Reaper extension that aims to make Reaper accessible to screen reader users." CSI has added preliminary support for OSARA with the goal of improving CSI with these screen readers. A new "Speak" action was added that can be triggered in various scenarios. See the example below which would speak the phrase "UAD Fairchild 660 Compressor" when the FX.zon was activated.
Zone "VST: UAD Fairchild 660 (Universal Audio, Inc.)" "Fair660"
OnZoneActivation Speak "UAD Fairchild 660 Compressor"
DisplayUpper1 FixedTextDisplay "HdRoom"
DisplayLower1 FXParamValueDisplay 9
Rotary1 FXParam 9 [ 0.0 0.17 0.33 0.50 0.67 0.83 1.0 ]
...
ZoneEnd
New Virtual Widgets: OnPlayStart, OnPlayStop, OnRecordStart, OnRecordStop, OnZoneActivation, OnZoneDeactivation
A slew of new virtual widgets have been added to allow you to automatically fire off actions based on Play or Record state, or when Zones are activated or deactivated. This adds a LOT of flexibility to Zones and can create a "smarter" experience.
Here are some example use-cases:
Zone "Home"
OnRecordStart SendMIDIMessage "B5 0F 04" // Makes button B8 strobe on record start
OnRecordStop SendMIDIMessage "B5 0F 00" // Makes button B8 stop strobing on record stop
OnPlayStart SendMIDIMessage "B5 0E 04" // Makes button B8 strobe on play start
OnPlayStop SendMIDIMessage "B5 0E 00" // Makes button B8 stop strobing on play start
...
ZoneEnd
Zone "SelectedTrackSend"
OnZoneActivation SetXTouchDisplayColors Cyan
OnZoneDeactivation RestoreXTouchDisplayColors
...
ZoneEnd
Zone "SelectedTrackFXMenu"
OnZoneActivation SetXTouchDisplayColors Yellow
OnZoneDeactivation RestoreXTouchDisplayColors
...
ZoneEnd
SetXTouchDisplayColors and RestoreXTouchDisplayColors are highly specialized actions for the X-Touch Universal and X-Touch Extenders to set the colors of all displays at once. When combined with the new OnZoneActivation, OnZoneDeactivation virtual widgets, these allow you to set all of the surface displays to the same color when you enter a SelectedTrackFXMenu zone, and restore the prior colors when you exit that Zone...
Zone "SelectedTrackFXMenu"
OnZoneActivation SetXTouchDisplayColors Yellow
OnZoneDeactivation RestoreXTouchDisplayColors
...
ZoneEnd
On the X-Touch, you can also set all 8 colors to any arbitrary value you'd like, but it MUST be all 8 colors. You include the color name for each of the 8 channels in a string with quotes. The syntax for that is shown below:
OnZoneActivation SetXTouchDisplayColors "Red Red Magenta Blue Yellow Green Cyan Red"
See FB_XTouchDisplayUpper for a list of available X-Touch colors.
SendMIDIMessage allows you to send arbitrary MIDI message to any CSI device based on whatever conditions you'd like to setup. This is great for devices like the MIDIFighterTwister, the Launch Pads, and other MIDI surfaces that will change colors or functionality based on MIDI messages they receive. For example, I'm doing this in my Home.zon to turn on strobing and change colors of buttons on my MIDI Fighter Twister based on the playback and record states in Reaper.
Zone "Home"
OnRecordStart SendMIDIMessage "B1 0F 50" // Makes button B8 red on record start
OnRecordStart SendMIDIMessage "B5 0F 04" // Makes button B8 strobe on record start
OnRecordStop SendMIDIMessage "B1 0F 5F" // Makes button B8 pink on record stop
OnRecordStop SendMIDIMessage "B5 0F 00" // Makes button B8 stop strobing on record stop
OnPlayStart SendMIDIMessage "B1 0E 2D" // Makes button B8 green on play start
OnPlayStart SendMIDIMessage "B5 0E 04" // Makes button B8 strobe on play start
OnPlayStop SendMIDIMessage "B1 0E 5F" // Makes button B8 pink on play stop
OnPlayStop SendMIDIMessage "B5 0E 00" // Makes button B8 stop strobing on play start
IncludedZones
"SelectedTrack"r
"Buttons"
"SelectedTrackFXMenu"
"SelectedTrackSend"
"SelectedTrackReceive"
IncludedZonesEnd
ZoneEnd
You can, of course, assign this to a button.
Zone "Buttons"
SommeButton SendMIDIMessage "B5 0E 04" // Makes button B8 strobe on play start
ZoneEnd
Due to changes in track visibility, Reaper state, etc., saving the banking information in the Reaper .rpp could lead to issues and was eliminated.
To improve Track Visibility and update behavior, CSI now recalculates the Track list on every Run, about 33 times a second -- don't worry, the recalculation takes microseconds.
By default CSI will follow Reaper's MCP view. ou can override this behavior if you add FollowTCP to the line in the csi.ini with the page name as shown below.
Version 2.0
MidiSurface "XTouchOne" 7 9
MidiSurface "MFTwister" 6 8
OSCSurface "iPad Pro" 8003 9003 10.0.0.146
Page "HomePage" FollowTCP
"XTouchOne" 1 0 "X-Touch_One.mst" "X-Touch_One_SelectedTrack"
"MFTwister" 8 0 "MIDIFighterTwisterEncoder.mst" "FXTwisterMenu"
"iPad Pro" 8 0 "FXTwister.ost" "FXTwisterMenu"
Page "MixPage"
"XTouchOne" 1 0 "X-Touch_One.mst" "X-Touch_One_SelectedTrack"
"MFTwister" 8 0 "MIDIFighterTwisterEncoder.mst" "FXTwisterFocusedFX"
"iPad Pro" 8 0 "FXTwister.ost" "FXTwisterFocusedFX"
If you wanted to dedicate a display to showing the global auomation mode within Reaper (example: on an OSC device), there is now a CSI action that will display that.
Zone "Buttons"
AutoModeDisplay GlobalAutoModeDisplay
ZoneEnd
TrackVCAFolderModeDisplay, ToggleFXOffline, and ToggleFXBypass Now Display String and Integer (Based on Feedback Processor Type)
Depending on what type of Feedback Processor these actions are assigned to, CSI will either return the surface an integer (e.g. 0 for off, 1 for on) or return a string value (e.g. 'Offline'). Example: on an OSC surface, you may want ToggleFXBypass to return "Bypased/Active" if using the FB_Processor, or 0/1 if using the FB_IntProcessor.
ToggleFXBypass would return the incorrect status if the plugin was enabled by the entire FX Chain was bypassed. This has been corrected.
Use OSCTimeDisplay for displaying Reaper's time, including the various modes, on an OSC surface. This is basically the OSC equivalent of MCUTimeDisplay. Use the same, pre-existing, CycleTimeDisplayModes action to change modes.
Zone "Buttons"
TimeDisplay OSCTimeDisplay
SomeButton CycleTimeDisplayModes
ZoneEnd
Use ToggleFXOffline to change the FX status to "offline" in Reaper. Offline FX is similar to Bypass, but it removes the plugin from memory and additional processing. In the below example, it's assigned to Shift+Mute. The corresponding display action is FXOfflineDisplay.
Zone "SelectedTrackFXMenu"
DisplayUpper| FXMenuNameDisplay
DisplayLower| FXBypassDisplay
Shift+DisplayLower| FXOfflineDisplay
Rotary| NoAction
RotaryPush| GoFXSlot
Mute| ToggleFXBypass
Shift+Mute| ToggleFXOffline
Left SelectedTrackFXMenuBank -1
Right SelectedTrackFXMenuBank 1
RecordArm| NoAction
Solo| NoAction
Select| NoAction
Fader| NoAction
ZoneEnd
Broadcast and Receive has been expanded with some additional functioanlity:
- ToggleEnableFocusedFXMapping is automatically included if ToggleEnableFocusedFXMapping is in Broadcast/Receive list
- SelectedTrackSendBank is automatically included if SelectedTrackSend is in Broadcast/Receive list
- SelectedTrackReceiveBank is automatically included if SelectedTrackReceive is in Broadcast/Receive list
- SelectedTrackFXMenuBank is automatically included if SelectedTrackFX is in Broadcast/Receive list
Use CyleTrackInputMonitor to cycle through the input monitoring modes in a Track or SelectedTrack zone. The corresponding display action in TrackInputMonitorDisplay.
Zone "Track"
Alt+RotaryPush| CycleTrackInputMonitor
Alt+DisplayLower| TrackInputMonitorDisplay
ZoneEnd
In prior CSI builds, a SubZone called from a Track context with a | character could not inherit the full track context with all the channels (example: channels 1-8). Now they can. For instance, here's a basic use-case using a DualPan SubZone that wasn't possible prior to this build.
Zone "Track"
SubZones
"DualPan"
SubZonesEnd
RotaryPush| ToggleChannel
DisplayLower| TrackPanDisplay
Rotary| TrackPan
Rotary| WidgetMode Dot
Toggle+Rotary| TrackPanWidth
Toggle+Rotary| WidgetMode BoostCut
Toggle+DisplayLower| TrackPanWidthDisplay
Shift+RotaryPush| GoSubZone "DualPan"
ZoneEnd
And the DualPan zone itself...
Zone "DualPan"
RotaryPush| ToggleChannel
DisplayLower| TrackPanLDisplay
Rotary| TrackPanL
Rotary| WidgetMode Dot
Toggle+DisplayLower| TrackPanRDisplay
Toggle+Rotary| TrackPanR
Toggle+Rotary| WidgetMode Dot
Shift+RotaryPush| LeaveSubZone
ZoneEnd
ToggleChannel allows you to define a widget, such as RotaryPush, to toggle functionality assigned to that action. Example: this allows you to toggle between TrackPan + TrackPanDisplay and TrackPanWidth + TrackPanWidth display on the same channel. To do this, first you would define "RotaryPush|" to the ToggleChannel action. Next, you would use Toggle+as a modifier.
RotaryPush| ToggleChannel
Rotary| TrackPan
Rotary| WidgetMode Dot
DisplayLower| TrackPanDisplay
Toggle+Rotary| TrackPanWidth
Toggle+Rotary| WidgetMode BoostCut
Toggle+DisplayLower| TrackPanWidthDisplay
You can now also modify your .mst files and remove the Toggle part of a rotary definition. So this...
Widget Rotary1
Encoder b0 10 7f [ > 01-0f < 41-4f ]
FB_Encoder b0 10 7f
Toggle 90 20 7f
WidgetEnd
Becomes...
Widget Rotary1
Encoder b0 10 7f [ > 01-0f < 41-4f ]
FB_Encoder b0 10 7f
WidgetEnd
TrackPanAutoLeft will control TrackPan or TrackPanL (if using Dual Pans). TrackPanAutoRight will control TrackPanWidth or TrackPanR (if using Dual Pans). This adds considerable convenience in that you can use Stereo Balance Pans or Dual Pans even in the same Reaper project and control them in CSI without having to change zones. The one difference is that the WidgetMode for TrackPanAutoRight must be fixed (i.e. you can't use the Spread mode for PanWidth and Dot mode for PanR - you have to pick one).
Zone "Track"
RotaryPush| ToggleChannel
Rotary| TrackPanAutoLeft
Rotary| WidgetMode Dot
Toggle+Rotary| TrackPanAutoRight
Toggle+Rotary| WidgetMode Dot
DisplayLower| TrackPanAutoLeftDisplay
Toggle+DisplayLower| TrackPanAutoRightDisplay
ZoneEnd
Note: When using Dual Pans, TrackL and TrackR automation does not get written from a control surface. This appears to require a change to the Reaper API's.
WidgetMode is designed to send additional, specific, instructions to a given widget. For instance, on a typical MCU-style device, you can set the Rotary encoder feedback to vary between Dot, BoostCut, Fill, and Spread modes.
Rotary| TrackPan
Rotary| WidgetMode Dot
DisplayLower| TrackPanDisplay
Toggle+Rotary| TrackPanWidth
Toggle+Rotary| WidgetMode BoostCut
Toggle+DisplayLower| TrackPanWidthDisplay
SetWidgetMode exists because you may want to set a Faderport display ScribbleStripMode, therefore, you will need SetWidgetMode since there is no other Action that updates the Widget, as there would be with, say, Rotary values and LED ring style.
FPDisplay SetWidgetMode
FPDisplay WidgetMode SomeWidgetMode
The MCUTrackPan actions have been removed in favor of the new, more flexible, "ToggleChannel" functionality.
Encoder7Bit was created to address 7-Bit absolute encoders that continue to transmit 00 values when turned counter-clockwise after the minimum has been reached, and send 7f values when turned clockwise even after the maximum value has been reached. The X-Touch Compact and X-Touch Mini encoders can be configured to behave this way.
CSI supports all the display functionality of the Presonus FaderPort8 and FaderPort16. The FaderPorts have multiple (9) display types to choose from, contains a ValueBar and can, depending on the display type, show the VU Meter.
Display type is a per display setting and consists of a widget and an action to set the actual display type. In your .mst file this will look like:
// ===========================================
// SCRIBBLE STRIP MODE
// ===========================================
Widget ScribbleStripMode1
FB_FP8ScribbleStripMode 0
WidgetEnd
Widget ScribbleStripMode2
FB_FP8ScribbleStripMode 1
WidgetEnd
etc.....
The image below shows all the display types and the Id
The default scribble strip mode is id 2 This is a version with 4 lines and in most cases the most versatile one.
For implementing the scribble strip mode you need to add 2 lines of code. The first one is adding the scribblescript widget to the file. It's value should be SetWidgetMode. This tells CSI the only value to use will be the WidgetMode. The second line sets the WidgetMode value. In this case that is the Scribble strip mode. The value is the ID of one of the layouts shown above.
In your zone file this will look like this:
Zone "Track"
ScribbleStripMode| SetWidgetMode
ScribbleStripMode| WidgetMode 8
Each of the 4 scribble lines requires it’s own widget in the .mst file. For your .mst, here are the names for the FB generators that correspond to each line on the surface.
| FaderPort 8 | FaderPort 16 | |
|---|---|---|
| Line 1 | FB_FP8ScribbleLine1 | FB_FP16ScribbleLine1 |
| Line 2 | FB_FP8ScribbleLine2 | FB_FP16ScribbleLine2 |
| Line 3 | FB_FP8ScribbleLine3 | FB_FP16ScribbleLine3 |
| Line 4 | FB_FP8ScribbleLine4 | FB_FP16ScribbleLine4 |
And here is an example of how the .mst would be mapped out for Display 1 on the Faderport8.
// ===========================================
// SCRIBBLE LINES CHANNEL 1
// ===========================================
Widget ScribbleLine1_1
FB_FP8ScribbleLine1 0
WidgetEnd
Widget ScribbleLine2_1
FB_FP8ScribbleLine2 0
WidgetEnd
Widget ScribbleLine3_1
FB_FP8ScribbleLine3 0
WidgetEnd
Widget ScribbleLine4_1
FB_FP8ScribbleLine4 0
WidgetEnd
Per scribble line you're able to set ythe text align and you can set a line to inverted (changing back and foreground colour). These values are set with a WidgetMode.
- TextAlign: Possible values are Center, Left and Right. The default when not set is Center
- Invert: Pass the value Invert to invert. It will be normal when not passed.
Using this in a zone file will look like this:
Zone "Track"
ScribbleLine1_| TrackNameDisplay
ScribbleLine1_| WidgetMode "Left"
ScribbleLine2_| TrackNameDisplay
ScribbleLine2_| WidgetMode "Center Invert"
ZoneEnd
In this example line 1 in the scribble text will be left aligned. Line 2 will be right aligned and inverted.
The FaderPort 8 and FaderPort 16 have a Valuebar available in the scribble display. The ValueBar can be used for a visual representation of pan value, volume, pan width, etc. The valuebar has 5 different modes.
In the mst file it looks like:
// ===========================================
// VALUE BAR
// ===========================================
Widget ValueBar1
FB_FPValueBar 0
WidgetEnd
Widget ValueBar2
FB_FPValueBar 1
WidgetEnd
Setting the mode is the zone file is handled by a property. For this reason it is not possible changing this with a modifier key. In the zone file it looks like:
Zone "Track"
ValueBar| TrackPan
ValueBar| WidgetMode BiPolar
Reaper forum user Navelpluisje has made some contributions to improve FaderPort8/16 functionality in this build, including developing a TrackNumberDisplay action. Thanks to Navelpluisje for the additions!
Anyone using an existing set of files for the Presonus Faderport8 or Faderport16 will need to update their .mst files to rename FB_FaderportRGB7bit to FB_FaderportRGB.
This new display action will show the Reaper track number on a display. This can be useful for multi-line displays like the Faderport8/16 or SCE24 where you may want to spare a line for the track number as well as OSC surfaces.
FB_FaderportTwoStateRGB is used to allow two different colors for the Select buttons on the Faderport8/16 (track selected, track not selected), and FB_FPVUMeter allows one of the lines on the Faderport8/16 to function as a VU meter.
The 'Custom Delta' functionality for Encoders was not working previously working and fixed in this build.
Color support for the X-Touch Universal and X-Touch Extender has been added. See FB_XTouchDisplayUpper for details.
The ForceScrollLink action has been removed.
The ToggleScrollLink action now defaults to Off. Previously defaulted to on.
Standardizing CSI to consistently utilize US spelling. The FixedRGBColourDisplay action is now FixedRGBColorDisplay.
Name changed to clarify this widget is specific to the Softube Console One.
Name changed to clarify this widget is specific to the Softube Console One.
CSI version 2.0 made a number of under-the-hood changes to zone loading to improve results and simplify some processes, while also expanding capabilities and improving features in various areas. This page is designed towards users with familiarity with CSI v1/1.1 authoring and is meant to assist in migration to version 2.0 by summarizing and consolidating the changes.
In order to simplify .zon creation, the concept of Navigators have been removed (at least from the .zon files), and CSI inherits the Zone type based on a fixed set of Zone names. The fixed Zone names are:
Home
Buttons
Track
SelectedTrack
MasterTrack
SelectedTrackFXMenu
SelectedTrackSend
SelectedTrackReceive
TrackFXMenu
TrackReceive
TrackSend
CSI version 2 introduced the concept of AssociatedZones. These are zones like Sends, Receives, and FX Menus that are not activated as part of the home.zon, but will be called from this zone.
Below is an example of a typical MCU-style home.zon. The "Track" zone will use the displays and widgets when the Home zone is active, but if you want to call up an FX menu, Sends, or Receives to then takeover over some of the widgets, they need to be listed as AssociatedZones as shown below. When configured like this, the AssociatedZones function as "radio-button" style zones, where only one can be active at a given time (example: SelectedTrackSends or SelectedTrackReceives - not both simultaneously).
Zone Home
IncludedZones
"Buttons"
"Track"
"MasterTrack"
IncludedZonesEnd
AssociatedZones
"SelectedTrackFXMenu"
"SelectedTrackSend"
"SelectedTrackReceive"
"TrackFXMenu"
"TrackSend"
"TrackReceive"
AssociatedZonesEnd
ZoneEnd
Fixed zone names mean we no longer need the GoZone action. Instead, users can activate fixed zones directly from the following list of actions:
- GoHome
- GoSubZone
- LeaveSubZone
- GoTrackFXMenu
- GoTrackSend
- GoTrackReceive
- GoSelectedTrackFXMenu
- GoSelectedTrackSend
- GoSelectedTrackReceive
- GoSelectedTrack
Now, active zones will send feedback to surfaces that support this like the Behringer X-Touch, X-Touch One, etc. Example: if the Home zone is active, the button dedicated to this zone on these types of surfaces will light up. Same for the Send/Receive/FXMenu type zones.
In CSI, you can instruct one surface to "broadcast" zone changes to another surface to keep them in sync, as long as that other surface is set to "receive" and listen to those broadcast changes. This is not new functionality, however, rather than having a bunch of separate actions for this behavior, you can now list all your broadcast message types on a single row in the Home.zon, and same for Receive messages.
Broadcast/Receive only works for "Home" and "Associated Zones". If you have SelectedTrackFXMenu or FXMenu set to broadcast/receive, that includes the GoFXSlot messages that activates those zones.
The below example shows what Broadcast/Receive would look like with all currently supported options:
Zone Home
OnInitialization Broadcast Home SelectedTrackSend SelectedTrackReceive SelectedTrackFXMenu TrackSend TrackReceive TrackFXMenu
OnInitialization Receive Home SelectedTrackSend SelectedTrackReceive SelectedTrackFXMenu TrackSend TrackReceive TrackFXMenu
IncludedZones
"Buttons"
"Track"
"MasterTrack"
IncludedZonesEnd
AssociatedZones
"SelectedTrackFXMenu"
"SelectedTrackSend"
"SelectedTrackReceive"
"TrackFXMenu"
"TrackSend"
"TrackReceive"
AssociatedZonesEnd
ZoneEnd
The elimination of navigators mentioned above applies to FX.zon files too! By default, CSI version 2 will have FocusedFX mapping enabled. This means if you have a fx.zon file for a particular FX/instrument plugin, and open the GUI in Reaper, that mapping will become activated by default. You can toggle this behavior off and on by assigning a button to the ToggleEnableFocusedFXMapping action as shown below:
SomeButton ToggleEnableFocusedFXMapping
But what if you don't want FocusedFXMapping on by default? Since the default toggle state is "on", you can add "OnInitialization ToggleFocusedFXMapping" to flip it to off when CSI starts up as shown below:
Zone Home
OnInitialization ToggleEnableFocusedFXMapping
OnInitialization Broadcast Home SelectedTrackSend SelectedTrackReceive SelectedTrackFXMenu TrackSend TrackReceive TrackFXMenu
OnInitialization Receive Home SelectedTrackSend SelectedTrackReceive SelectedTrackFXMenu TrackSend TrackReceive TrackFXMenu
IncludedZones
"Buttons"
"Track"
"MasterTrack"
IncludedZonesEnd
AssociatedZones
"SelectedTrackFXMenu"
"SelectedTrackSend"
"SelectedTrackReceive"
"TrackFXMenu"
"TrackSend"
"TrackReceive"
AssociatedZonesEnd
ZoneEnd
Big improvements have been made to the Rewind and FastForward actions. They will now latch and seek the play/edit cursor. The first press of either button will result in a slower rewind/forward speed. If you press the button again, you get a second, faster speed. In addition, feedback has been added to these actions for use in OSC surfaces or any MIDI surfaces that can provide rewind/fastforward feedback.
A new modifier called "Flip" has been introduced with the intention of being assigned to the Flip button on MCU-style control surfaces. A common use-case for this would be to temporarily put track pans onto the faders for quick panning adjustments. And because it's a modifier, a quick press of the button this is assigned to will allow for latching.
Here's how you'd define the modifier in a Buttons zone.
Zone "Buttons"
Flip Flip
ZoneEnd
And an example of the intended use-case can be seen here where Flip gets used as a modifier to put TrackPan on the faders....
Zone "Track"
DisplayUpper| TrackNameDisplay
Fader|Touch+DisplayLower| TrackVolumeDisplay
DisplayLower| MCUTrackPanDisplay
VUMeter| TrackOutputMeterMaxPeakLR
Fader| TrackVolume
Flip+Fader| TrackPan
Rotary| MCUTrackPan
RotaryPush| ToggleMCUTrackPanWidth
RecordArm| TrackRecordArm
Solo| TrackSolo
Mute| TrackMute
Select| TrackUniqueSelect
Shift+Select| TrackRangeSelect
Control+Select| TrackSelect
ZoneEnd
SubZones are custom zones (i.e. they don’t have a fixed, pre-defined name) that can be called up from other zones. Common use-cases for SubZones would be create a custom Zoom zone, or a custom Marker zone that can re-purpose some widget assignments and change the functionality of the surface. They are also commonly used FX SubZones, which existed in CSI version 1.1. Think of an example of a Mastering Suite that may have more parameters than you have controls for on your surface. With FX SubZones, you could create one zone for the compressor section, another for the limiter section, then activate those different surfaces via button presses.
In CSI v1.1, using a SubZone on Mac would cause CSI to crash Reaper [there was a workaround]. These now work as intended without crashing.
In CSI v1.1, Send, Receive and FX Menu banking actions needed to exist in those zones. In CSI v2, there are unique banking actions for each type. Those banking actions are no longer constrained to the Send, Receive, FX Menu zone files…you can use those in the buttons.zon
Track pinning has been removed [as of now] from CSI v2 in order to clean up and simplify the code behind the scenes.
To accommodate some under the hood changes how to surfaces get assigned to Pages, the CSI preferences screen has been redesigned. It now has a left to right flow where first you configure Surfaces on the left, then create one or more Pages in the middle, then use the Assignments section to assign surfaces to each page. See Setting up CSI for the first time for more details.
In the CSI Device Preferences, you'll no longer see the Send/Receive channel count fields. They inherit the count from the channel count.
Version 2.0 introduces changes to the file CSI.ini file format. Additionally, now CSI will check for an incorrectly formatted CSI.ini and warn users when Reaper starts, notifying users of the version mismatch (rather than crashing Reaper). In general, CSI will warn users if there's a missing folder or incorrectly formated CSI.ini and should not crash Reaper.
If the Rotary encoders in your .mst file contained the toggle line that was required for the MCUTrackPan action, that line can now be removed.
So if you previously had this in your .mst file...
Widget Rotary1
Encoder b0 10 7f [ < 41-48 > 01-08 ]
FB_Encoder b0 10 7f
Toggle 90 20 7f
WidgetEnd
You can delete the toggle row so it looks like this...
Widget Rotary1
Encoder b0 10 7f [ < 41-48 > 01-08 ]
FB_Encoder b0 10 7f
WidgetEnd
Reaper handles RGB colors differently between Mac and PC. A bug in CSI has been fixed to correct the RGB behavior on both platforms.
You can now use the TouchOSC [mk II] application running on your local machine as a control surface in CSI.
Mac users with M1 [or more recent] can now use CSI natively in the Reaper ARM version. The .dylib is now a universal binary that includes ARM and Intel versions. You will need to allow the CSI .dylib to have access within Security and Privacy settings in Mac OS, then restart Reaper.
The minimum version of MacOS supported is 10.15. This was changed in order to support new processors.
CSI no longer includes 32-bit builds on Windows and Mac. This was dropped in order to support new processors.
Here’s a list of new actions introduced in CSI v2:
- SaveProject
- Undo
- Redo
- MCUTimeDisplay (previously existed and named TimeDisplay)
- CycleTrackVCAFolderModes
- TrackVCAFolderModeDisplay
- Broadcast
- Receive
- GoHome
- GoSubZone
- LeaveSubZone
- ToggleEnableFocusedFXMapping
- ToggleEnableFocusedFXParamMapping
- GoSelectedTrackFX
- GoTrackSend
- GoTrackReceive
- GoTrackFXMenu
- GoSelectedTrackSend
- GoSelectedTrackReceive
- GoSelectedTrackFXMenu
- TrackSendBank
- TrackReceiveBank
- TrackFXMenuBank
- SelectedTrackSendBank
- SelectedTrackReceiveBank
- SelectedTrackFXMenuBank
- Flip
- ToggleFXBypass
- FXBypassDisplay
Here’s a list of legacy actions that have been removed. Many of these actions had to do with how zones were activated.
- TimeDisplay (still exists - was renamed to MCUTimeDisplay)
- MapSelectedTrackSendsToWidgets
- UnmapSelectedTrackSendsFromWidgets
- MapTrackSendsSlotToWidgets
- UnmapTrackSendsSlotFromWidgets
- MapSelectedTrackSendsSlotToWidgets
- UnmapSelectedTrackSendsSlotFromWidgets
- MapSelectedTrackReceivesToWidgets
- UnmapSelectedTrackReceivesFromWidgets
- MapTrackReceivesSlotToWidgets
- UnmapTrackReceivesSlotFromWidgets
- MapSelectedTrackReceivesSlotToWidgets
- UnmapSelectedTrackReceivesSlotFromWidgets
- FXParamRelative
- MapSelectedTrackFXToWidgets
- UnmapSelectedTrackFXFromMenu
- MapSelectedTrackFXToMenu
- UnmapSelectedTrackFXFromMenu
- MapTrackFXMenusSlotToWidgets
- UnmapTrackFXMenusSlotFromWidgets
- GoCurrentFXSlot
- SendSlotBank
- ReceiveSlotBank
- FXMenuSlotBank
- TogglePin
- GoZone
- SetBroadcastGoZone
- SetReceiveGoZone
- SetBroadcastGoFXSlot
- SetReceiveGoFXSlot
- SetBroadcastMapSelectedTrackSendsToWidgets
- SetReceiveMapSelectedTrackSendsToWidgets
- SetBroadcastMapSelectedTrackReceivesToWidgets
- SetReceiveMapSelectedTrackReceivesToWidgets
- SetBroadcastMapSelectedTrackFXToWidgets
- SetReceiveMapSelectedTrackFXToWidgets
- SetBroadcastMapSelectedTrackFXToMenu
- SetReceiveMapSelectedTrackFXToMenu
- SetBroadcastMapTrackSendsSlotToWidgets
- SetReceiveMapTrackSendsSlotToWidgets
- SetBroadcastMapTrackReceivesSlotToWidgets
- SetReceiveMapTrackReceivesSlotToWidgets
- SetBroadcastMapTrackFXMenusSlotToWidgets
- SetReceiveMapTrackFXMenusSlotToWidgets
- ToggleVCAMode