Arrowing cell by cell is right inside a dense bar and tedious across an
empty one. Three pairs of keys now jump straight to a note that is really
there, one pair for each axis:
Alt+Up/Down the column -- next pitch sounding in this cell
Alt+Left/Right the row -- next note at the cursor's pitch
Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right anywhere -- next note in the take, any pitch
plus Ctrl+Alt+Up/Down for whole-octave movement, which needs no scale
awareness because an octave preserves the pitch class.
All the jumps ignore muted notes, which are not audible content, and the
row and any-note jumps anchor on note starts, so a note held across eight
cells is one stop rather than eight. Landing in a chord takes whichever
note is nearest the pitch you came from rather than always the bottom one.
They sit on Ctrl+Alt rather than plain Ctrl because REAPER already uses
Ctrl+arrows to move between items.
The logic lives in the lib as usual, with four run* drivers following the
runShift pattern, so the eight new action scripts are seven lines each.
test_lib.lua previously dofile'd an absolute D:\ path and so could not run
outside one machine; it now resolves the lib relative to itself. Stubbing
MIDI_GetNote and the PPQ conversions reaches further than the old "pure
logic only" boundary, so the new tests cover the search functions and the
drivers' speech and cursor movement too.
StuffMIDIMessage feeds the virtual MIDI keyboard, which only reaches
tracks that are armed and monitoring -- normally not the track whose
item you are editing. Opening an item in grid mode therefore sounded
every preview through whatever instrument happened to be armed, which
is confusing when the notes you are writing come back in the wrong
voice.
Grid mode now borrows the record routing: the edited take's track is
armed and monitoring with all MIDI inputs (anything narrower can
exclude the virtual keyboard), and every other armed track is stood
down so it cannot answer as well. The prior arm, monitor and input of
each track touched is saved by GUID in transient ExtState.
routePreview re-points lazily, so moving the editor to an item on
another track costs nothing until the target actually changes. The
daemon hands the routing back when grid mode goes off, when the editor
closes, or on exit -- the same way it already restores the loop and
repeat state the loop-bar action borrows -- so the project is put back
even if grid mode is never toggled off.
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install.ps1 could never have worked outside Windows: it reads
%APPDATA% for the resource path, guards on Get-Process, and needs
PowerShell installed. install.sh mirrors it exactly -- same actions,
same key table, same idempotent rewrite and backup -- differing only
in resource-path discovery and --real-control, which exists because
modifier bit 8 means Ctrl on Windows but Command on macOS.
Also document installing by hand from the action list, for anyone who
would rather not run either script.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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