Saving chunk in Reaper rpp format

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Hi,

I’m currently extracting the vsti chunk in a JUCE host and writing it to a SQLite db blob.

MemoryBlock chunk;
bool isPreset = true;
bool ret = VSTPluginFormat::getChunkData(plugin, chunk, isPreset);

rc = sqlite3_bind_blob(stmt, num_params + 1,
        chunk.getData(), chunk.getSize(), SQLITE_STATIC);

How can I, instead, write the chunk to a txt file in Reapers Base64 format? I mostly code in ocaml, my C++ is very shakey.

  <VST "VSTi: ACE (u-he)" ACE.vst 0 "" 1633895765
    VUVjYe5e7f4CAAAAAQAAAAAAAAACAAAAAAAAAAIAAAABAAAAAAAAAAIAAAAAAAAAnxUAAAEAAAAAABAA
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JUCE has the Base64 class to convert binary data into a Base64 encoded string, but that of course doesn’t help you with the Reaper specific portions that likely must be present in the data. If I recall right, those Reaper portions should contain at least the plugin channel routing, bypass and wet/dry mix values. They may also contain the floating point static (non-automated) parameter values for the plugin.

You will likely not be able to solve this without direct help from the Cockos developers…

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In experimenting with decoding reaper chunks in ocaml, I’ve noticed that the top line seems to contain the fx id input count routings etc. Parameter envelopes seem to be separated into text based <PARAMENV and <PT tags.

I posted in the Reaper dev forum a few weeks ago, but haven’t had much success in finding help: https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=195251

I saw the JUCE Base64 converter but my C++ chops wouldn’t let me get past the void* aspect of the chunk. If you could post a few lines demonstrating the conversion I would really appreciate it. My hope it to get the chunk into a similar format so I can hack it in ocaml.

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MemoryBlock chunk;
// fill chunk here…
String b64string = Base64::toBase64(chunk.getData(), chunk.getSize());

(So it’s pretty much the same what you already did with the Sqlite code…)

Note that string returned by Juce might not be directly compatible with Reaper’s rpp text format. (If I recall right, Reaper for example expects very long texts in the .rpp to be split into smaller lines.)

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Ahh, thank you for that. I’ll try it when I get home.

I encountered the long string limitation as well… Seeing how ad-hok vst chunks are in reality has been quite the surprise.