Osara parameter plugin dialog - ability to lock parameter range

[HenriNH6]

Hey there,
I’d like to ask if it would be possible to add an option to the OSARA Plugin Dialog that allows setting a parameter slider's range.
Here’s an example:
When cleaning a specific area using an EQ, I might need to find the most prominent resonance in the lower mids, say between 200 Hz and 800 Hz. It would be great to be able to lock the lower and upper boundaries of the slider within this range, and once I find the exact frequency, I could unlock the slider again to work across the full range.
Thanks a lot!
Best regards,
Henry

[HenriNH6]

If possible, I suggest the following shortcuts for the parameter dialog:
• Control + 1 – Set the lower boundary of the slider range
• Control + 2 – Set the upper boundary of the slider range
• Control + ` (or Control + 3 or Control + Backspace) – Reset the range to default values
Thank you very much! I look forward to your response. Have a great day!

[jcsteh]

A few questions/issues:

1. Would you want this to apply just while that parameter has focus in the dialog or are you wanting it to be saved, for example, when you exit the parameters dialog? Saving it is much more complicated and I don't think this would be worthwhile.
2. Would you want this to apply to all kinds of parameters (track parameters, etc.) or just FX parameters? Track parameters, etc. can have different types, so this gets a lot more complicated there.
3. I'm not keen on adding keyboard shortcuts for this. Using control+numbers in a dialog like this isn't standard in any way. Also, they wouldn't be discoverable. Finally, users have previously requested that we try to pass as many keyboard shortcuts as possible through to the main section of REAPER and this would break that rule for a feature that perhaps not many would use. That said, I think we could put these commands in the context menu, which would only be an extra keystroke.

@ScottChesworth , thoughts?

[HenriNH6]

Hello,
Thank you for your clarification.
What you're saying makes perfect sense. I believe this feature could apply only to the focused parameter and wouldn't need to be saved. If it’s possible to set the lower and upper boundaries of the focused parameter via the context menu in the plugin parameter dialog, that would be wonderful!
I completely understand your concern about adding new keyboard shortcuts due to potential conflicts, the context menu works fine.
I would greatly appreciate having this feature in the plugin parameter dialog, though I don’t necessarily need it in other parameter dialogs, such as the track parameter dialog or the item dialog, at least for now.
That being said, I may find it useful in other contexts in the future, so I will leave it to your discretion as to how and where it might be best implemented.
Thank you again for your time and consideration. I truly appreciate it and would be delighted if this could be incorporated.
Best regards,
Henry

[ScottChesworth]

@ScottChesworth , thoughts?

I'm not understanding how this is helpful yet. Is it that you can turn speech off and be sure you're not moving outside of a given useful range? Or is it that you're hoping the full length of the slider then adjusts inside the boundaries you've chosen, IE you'd have finer control available within the given range?

[HenriNH6]

    Hello Scott, I'll try to explain it. For example, I want to walk through the EQ frequency band from 500 Hz to 800 Hz, and here I would like to be able to determine the slider of the lower limit of 500 Hz and the upper limit of 800 Hz. Then I would turn off the speech on the NVDA and the up arrow and down arrow I could only pass the specified frequency range and I would never get below or above the limit. I like it very much, because this is how I could find resonance in the lower middle zone from 200 Hz to 800 Hz and I could only focus on this frequency area. I see the seeing sound engineers do it, but they see and know where the imaginary frequency ends. Of course, if I want to go through a frequency area, I have to dim the speech in NVDA, because I can't concentrate so when I tell me, for example, e-SPEAK. It is clear that I can around the frequency area, but it would be great to have such a gadget. Maybe for me it only makes sense with my use of EQ, but I believe that someone will find another way, for example, when moving panoramas for automation from 30 l to 30 r in some Panner. I believe that I have explained it a little and I know that it is nothing groundbreaking, but I would be very pleased with such a seemingly unnecessary gadget. Have a beautiful day, best regards Henry.

[ScottChesworth]

Thanks for explaining. Yep that sounds useful!