HOW TOs, Tips & Tricks • REAPER Macros

A useful trick I learned over the REAPER discord.

I'm talking about macro in a sense of a knob that controls mulitple parameters at once, so you can quickly automate mulitple elements, or easily control them via a midi. Basically a macro parameter from a synth plugin.

First use this JSFX plugin:

desc:Macro Controllerin_pin:noneout_pin:noneslider1:0<0, 100, 0.1>Macro 1

This just gives you a plugin with 1 slider that currently does nothing - it will be our macro. You can add as many macros as you want, by repeating the final line.

Then in any plugin that you want, touch a parameter you want to control via a macro and then open the Param menu and select "Parameter modulation/MIDI link".

From there you will get a menu for controlling the parameter and you can tick the "Link from MIDI or FX parameter" box and then select a Macro slider of your chosing in the JSFX plugin in the plugin chain.

Statistics: Posted by CabalCrow — Thu Apr 17, 2025 6:11 pm