Protools automation shortcut

[jimc]

There’s a long thread (see link) - but I can’t work out what actually needs to be done from it. How do you enable the protools automation shortcut for controls in a JUCE plugin? Can someone point at the right instructions? Is it baked into SliderAttachment now and I just need to copy it - or do I need to patch JUCE.

ProTools automation menu

You’ve raised a lot of concrete concerns. Indeed the current AAX Wrapper JuceAAX_GUI makes it hard to implement something without a lot of refactor to JUCE. So I’ve kept the less elegant ‘global flag’ patch. just because it’s a smaller patch and provides out-of-the-box support without special classes. If you use your own parameter<>slider attachments you’ll need to add those nasty returns in your begin/end parameter changes.

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AAX automation shortcut key "CMD+CTRL+Click" doesn't work problem

We are developing AAX/VST Plug-in for Mac using JUCE Framework. (3.0.5) After opening up the Pro Tools Automation Window within the plug-in, using the Automation shortcut key combination of ‘CMD + CTRL + Click’ should change TRACK as shown in the attached screenshot however, it does not operate properly. [image] We also tired ‘Audio Plug-in Demo (3.0.5 and 4.2.3)’ from JUCE, but it does not function. Could you please give us advice on how to use the shortcut key combination?

[moritzsur]

You have to override getControlParameterIndex in your processoreditor. I created a static method that sets a specific component property (access them with component::getProperties). In getControlParameterIndex I check the provided component and its parents for this property.
This also enables focussing this parameters automation lane in Pro Tools (but I don’t remember that shortcut).

[refusesoftware]

@moritzsur

This also enables focussing this parameters automation lane in Pro Tools (but I don’t remember that shortcut).

That “focus lane” shortcut is Control + Command + click (click on the control in the plugin window), in macOS anyways.

The other shortcut, to arm a parameter for automation, is all 3 modifier keys + click, aka the 3-fingered salute.

[daniel]

Sorry for the resurrection:

I tried this, overriding the getControlParameterIndex():

int AnimatorEditor::getControlParameterIndex (juce::Component& component)
{
    return component.getProperties().getWithDefault ("paramID", -1);
}

And set for the component:

fooSlider.getProperties().set ("paramID", apvts.getParameter ("foo")->getParameterIndex());

But when I run in pro-tools, nothing happens when I do CMD+Ctrl+click, nothing happens.

Did I miss anything?

[AdamVenn]

I think it might be ctrl + windows + alt click??

[daniel]

Ok, thanks @AdamVenn !
It is indeed CMD+Ctrl+Option+click (one more modifier and I need my big toe )

This opens now the menu to add the parameter to the automation.