dtormoen / axeactions

Control your Axe FX with actions and keyboard shortcuts in Reaper

Axe FX Reaper Actions

This project adds scripts which allow you to control your Axe FX with actions in Reaper. These actions can be mapped to keyboard shortcuts, midi commands from control surfaces, or chained together into Reaper scripts.

Let me know if there is any functionality you are interested in or even just let me know if you find this useful!

Setup

Pay close attention to the location of files so they can be run properly from Reaper. I tried to write this so it would work on different OS's and varying setups, but it has only been tested on my Windows machine.

Checkout or Download from Github

Checkout or download this repository so it is contained in the <Reaper Installation>/scripts folder. AxeMain.lua should have the path <Reaper Installation>/scripts/AxeActions/AxeMain.lua.

Add actions to Reaper

Press ? to bring up the actions menu. In the lower right corner select Reascript: Load. Select all of the files in the actions folder. These actions will now be available to be mapped to keyboard shortcuts or midi control surfaces similar to any other Reaper action.

Setup Axe FX

This has only been tested on an Axe FX III and is configured to search for that device's name. This basic idea should work for any other device which accepts midi messages with minimal tweaking.

In the Axe FX midi setup I could not get automatically learning parameters to work properly so I had to manually set the midi message in the Axe FX to the mapping at the top of AxeMain.lua.

For example, go to SETUP -> MIDI/Remote -> Other (farthest right page) -> Preset Increment and set Preset Increment to 8 to map that control.

axeactions's Issues

define bank before program change

Hi,
I adapted your code to the Axe FX 2 XL. There I had an issue with the SendPC function. The bank was set to 1 which results in always starting at 129 as the preset 0.
Sending a #CC n (n=1..3) for selecting a bank before sending the #PC solved the issue.
Thanks a lot for your work! Great!