Newby to Scripting, and I just don't know where to turn to

I've been manually handling the 'post production' of our church's sermons and CD creation for a few months using Reaper. During those months I have been learning a LOT from these forums, and I think that I have been doing fairly well considering I've only been at it for a short while. Currently I am recording our entire church service from our Behringer X32 board via USB using a template that I created, starting from before the first piano note to the last note after the invitation (close to about 1hr 45mins sometimes). (Can this be automated to start recording on the first note? Perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself.) Steps that I take to produce things: 1) During the services I place markers and color code them depending on the source (tracks) (Announcements / Sermon are yellow, vocal mics are orange, instruments are green, and choir are violet). Each 'start' marker gets a title such as "Hymn 456 - In The Name Of Jesus" or "Sermon - Jesus, The Miracle", and then I add an 'End' marker using the same number as the start (to keep things simple) so that every beginning has an end for quickly creating regions in the next step. 2) After the service is over and I can then zoom / expand the waveform vertically so that I can see it, I go back to the markers and verify that they are in the correct places (making adjustments as needed), then create regions out of that, setting their colors according to their primary focus. 3) Next I apply FX Chains to each track as desired (a HUGE time saver), 4) Split all of the tracks up according to regions, and apply Mute, Pan, and Volume Envelopes (this is costing me time since there are a lot of points to do this, 20 tracks across 6-10 regions... it adds up). 5) Then I create an MP3 of just the sermon for our website and immediately upload it, 6) And finally an entire CD of all of the song specials plus the sermon (and announcements if there is enough room). 7) Afterward I try to clean things up in my files and folders so as to preserve as much space as I can, deleting tracks that didn't get used (do I really need to save the ReaPeaks?). Why am I posting this? To ask where to go so that I can learn scripting in order to automate a lot of this. Hopefully some of this can be done in a fashion that a script can poll the soundboard for the Scenes being used during the recording (Hand Mic 1 on channel 8 is used by person X (set up for an alto) for song special #1, and person Z (set up for a bass) for song special #2, etc., Hand Mic 2 on channel 9 is used by person Y (set up for a tenor) for song special #1 only)... that kind of thing so that the FX Chains can be manipulated easily (hopefully via an API call). Our sound system's post-fx is set up for our auditorium's single speaker (everything is mono and centered), but the produced recordings take advantage of the stereo and other useful effects for the MP3 and CD. THANK YOU, REAPER!! I look at all of the things that Reaper can do and I read these forums, and I just have to believe that some, if not all of this is possible via scripts. I have looked into lua and eel, but at first glance I had to admit to myself that I ain't no spring chicken anymore. I believe that I'm in the right area for what I need, but... Am I really? If so... where do I turn to next? (It has been a long time since I programmed anything, and that was in Assembly language on a 286DX computer using DOS 3.5 (guess the year), so please, be gentle. lol)

Try here: See the link in the first post.

It's the JSFX documentation for making effects. For scripts, you should probably start by learning vanilla Lua. Then have a look at the ReaScript documentation in the Help menu. Note that it's also possible to write scripts in EEL (the language of JSFX) and Python (buggier/slower). Check out the "JSFX and ReaScript Discussion" section on this forum. These links might also help: