Hackey-Machines

A LUA modular interface plugin for REAPER 5.9x and up. Designed to mimick the machine editor in Jeskola Buzz.

Recording status handling

Highlight signal chain

Importing templates.

Manipulation of volume, panning, name, solo/mute status, to/from channel.

Deleting machines

Installation

With Reapack

Add it in your Reapack repository list: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joepvanlier/Hackey-Machines/master/index.xml.

Without

• Press ? or select Actions > Action List
• click the ReaScript: Load button

Install SWS extensions

Hackey Machines require the SWS extensions for REAPER, which can be found here

Signal analysis

If you want the signal analysis button to work, you will need to install the spectral analyzer from this repo as well.

Configure which machines to see in the "Insert machine" window.

On Windows F10 opens the config file, where you can set which machines you would like to see in the insert machine dropdown window. On other OS-es, look for the file FX_list.lua in your %APPDATA%/REAPER/Scripts/Routing tools/MachineView. Edit the file according to the same format.

Usage

Hackey Machines provides an alternative way for visualizing and manipulating the routing in REAPER.

Clicking a machine with the outer mouse button or a signal cable with the inner mouse button opens context dependent options.

Clicking anywhere with the outer mouse button opens a window to insert new machines.

Connecting two machines can be done by holding shift, clicking the source machine and then dragging the line over to the target machine. Scrolling with the mousewheel zooms, while clicking with the middle mouse button and dragging pans the field of view. Middle mouse on a connection disconnects the two machines. Doubleclicking a machine opens its GUI (if it has one).

If the wiring turns messy, hit ENTER to simulate the force-based rearranger for a few more steps. It combines spring forces between connected machines and repelling forces between all machines to try and optimally layout the machine graph.

Key	Action
F1	Help
F2	Enables and disables visualization of signals
F3	Toggles between track and machine names
F4	Toggle showing all machines versus hiding some
F5	Switch to night mode
F8	???
F10	Open file with machine (VST/FX) list
Shift + Drag to other machine	Connect machines
Left mouse button on connection arrow	Open subwindow to manipulate volume, panning or disconnect machines
Right mouse button on machine	Open window to solo, mute, rename, duplicate or remove the machine
Middle mouse button	Disconnect machine
Middle mouse button + Drag	Shift field of view
Scrollwheel	Adjust zoom level
Doubleclick machine	Opens machine GUI (if present)
Enter	Simulate forces
Delete	Delete selected machine
H	Hide selected machine
CTRL + S	Save Project
CTRL + Z	Undo
CTRL + Shift + Z	Redo