Search Track Preset

Hi,

This would be for existing tracks right - not for creating new tracks from track presets?

Yes existing tracks.

To be clear, for example, you'd like to search all of your track presets with a search term like "Vocal" or "Channel Strip"?

Yes very similar to the script for searching an insert on a track or Audiosuite search, where SoundFlow populates a search window you can type the name of your track preset, or even work on the tags generated with most track presets.

@chrscheuer & @Chris_Shaw - I'd be curious to get your input on this script I'm working on! I believe it's roughly the same idea as what @Mixed_By_D_LLC was trying to accomplish with this post.

My goal would be to search, and select track presets for the currently selected track. I often load up my "LV Sends" on new vocal tracks, but there are dozens of track presets I'd like to be able to recall similarly. It would be nice to have a key command option to trigger a search in the same way I can search for audio suite plugins, inserts, I/O, memory locations, etc.

I have pieced together this rough script that I think is in the right direction. I believe I took a large portion of the bones of this script from @Chris_Shaw 's "search audio suite preset" script. Right now, the search menu populates with all of the options for the current track, but it seems like it's moving too fast after that point and errors out.

sf.ui.proTools.appActivate();

var selectedTrack = sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrack;
var btn = sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrack.titleButton;

var items = btn.popupMenuFetchAllItems({
    isRightClick: true,
}).menuItems.map(function (item) {
    return {
        name: item.names.join(' -> '),
        path: item.names
    };
});

var chosenPath = sf.interaction.popupSearch({
    items: items,
    title: 'Select Track Preset'
}).item.path;

btn.popupMenuSelect({
    isRightClick: true,
    menuPath: chosenPath,
});

Oooh. Okay, I added in that "get focus back" section from @Chris_Shaw 's audio suite search script and it seemed to solve the issue. The updated script is below.

Follow-up question, can anyone suggest a way to filter the menu items to only show me the "Recall Track Preset" results in the search?

sf.ui.proTools.appActivate();

// Declare selected Track
var btn = sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrack.titleButton;

// Fetch all menu items
var items = btn.popupMenuFetchAllItems({
    isRightClick: true,
}).menuItems.map(function (item) {
    return {
        name: item.names.join(' > '),
        path: item.names
    };
});

// Search for a Track Preset
var chosenPath = sf.interaction.popupSearch({
    items: items,
    title: 'Select Track Preset'
}).item.path;

//Get focus back
sf.wait({ intervalMs: 100 });
sf.ui.proTools.appActivate();
sf.wait({ intervalMs: 50 });

// Select Chosen Path
btn.popupMenuSelect({
    isRightClick: true,
    menuPath: chosenPath
});

I keep answering my own questions 🤪. I found some filtering examples on stack overflow and I think I cracked it. I'd still be curious if there is a better approach, but after hacking this together, it seems to be working!

// Search Track Presets
// This script will search and select Track Presets on the currently selected track.

sf.ui.proTools.appActivate();

// Declare selected Track
var btn = sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrack.titleButton;

// Fetch all menu items
var items = btn.popupMenuFetchAllItems({
    isRightClick: true,
}).menuItems.map(function (item) {
    return {
        name: item.names.join(' > '),
        path: item.names
    };
});

// Filter Results
var TrackPresets = 'Recall Track Preset', 
    chosenPathFiltered = items.filter(function (str) { return str.name.includes(TrackPresets); });

// Search for a Track Preset
var chosenPath = sf.interaction.popupSearch({
    items: chosenPathFiltered,
    title: 'Select Track Preset'
}).item.path;

//Get focus back
sf.wait({ intervalMs: 100 });
sf.ui.proTools.appActivate();
sf.wait({ intervalMs: 50 });

// Select Chosen Path
btn.popupMenuSelect({
    isRightClick: true,
    menuPath: chosenPath
});

https://soundflow.org/store/cw-pro-tools-utilities

I posted a little package to the store including the script to search Track Presets, as well as a second script to search existing folders and move tracks to the selected folder

The search existing folders and move tracks script are below. It's roughly the same as track presets, except filtering for the "Move to..." submenu.

// Move Tracks to Exisiting Folder
// This script will search for an exisiting Folder to move tracks into. 

sf.ui.proTools.appActivate();

// Declare selected Track
var btn = sf.ui.proTools.selectedTrack.titleButton;

// Fetch all menu items
var items = btn.popupMenuFetchAllItems({
    isRightClick: true,
}).menuItems.map(function (item) {
    return {
        name: item.names.join(' > '),
        path: item.names
    };
});

// Filter Results
var TrackPresets = 'Move to...', 
    chosenPathFiltered = items.filter(function (str) { return str.name.includes(TrackPresets); });

// Search for an existing Folder
var chosenPath = sf.interaction.popupSearch({
    items: chosenPathFiltered,
    title: 'Move to Folder'
}).item.path;

//Get focus back
sf.wait({ intervalMs: 100 });
sf.ui.proTools.appActivate();
sf.wait({ intervalMs: 50 });

// Select Chosen Path
btn.popupMenuSelect({
    isRightClick: true,
    menuPath: chosenPath
});

Last reply here! I made a quick video demoing how I'm using my most recent scripts outlined above. After making this video, I also made a script to create tracks from track presets - although it requires you first search your desired track preset folder, and then search your track presets.

The scripts are all up in the store now.

<3

Chad