[RWP] OS X Reaper UI tweaks?

[Bryan Smart]

Patrick, that was me. Changing UI updates to "lazy always" is good, but, you're right, you need more you can do.

In appearance settings:

Turn off all tool tip options. (VoiceOver can still access them through VO-shift-h help tags).
Enable Fast Text Rendering.
Turn on Simplify timeline display.
Turn off all envelope fill routines.

In Peaks/Waveform prefs, turn off all visual rendering options.

In Vu Meter prefs, you can set them to slower updates, but this isn't probably needed.

There are other settings, but these should make the largest impact. If you see anything that looks like it is there to make things more comprehensible visually, you can turn it off. VoiceOver is a bit like NVDA in the sense that it matters little how the screen actually looks, as info about the controls comes from the UI object model. Drawing waveforms in real-time, drawing cues to pull attention to something that is being edited, smoothing out fonts and graphics, etc are all processor wasters that won't make any difference to what VoiceOver can tell you. The constant screen updating can overload VoiceOver a bit, though.

Bryan


On Dec 1, 2011, at 8:02 AM, Patrick Perdue wrote:

> Hi all:
> 
> Just getting around to playing with Reaper on OS X again. I remember someone said something about changing the UI refresh rate to make navigating the UI less sluggish, as it is pretty painfully slow by default. I went to preferences/appearance, and changed update to "lazy always," which didn't seem to do much. Is there another setting I should change?
> Thanks for help.
> 
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