[RWP] Just getting started with Reaper, many questions.

[Christopher Bartlett]

Hello everyone.  I am coming here starting up my recording/mixing hobby
after a couple years out of the game.  I used Sonar, both with the Jsonar
scripts and the Dancing Dots Cake Talking scripts.  I am pretty familiar
with many of the basic concepts behind using a DAW.  I was getting
discouraged by the upgrade costs of that platform.

 

And lo!  I discovered reaper and ReAccess, and am all excited to dive in and
learn how to use this program and accessibility solution.  But either I'm so
rusty that the documentation is going over my head, or I'm not finding
documentation written with keyboard users in mind and am having trouble
getting my brain wrapped around the interface.

 

So, a few question to get me started.

 

I have downloaded the user guide and looked at the wiki.  Both seem to be
written from the perspective of sighted users.  Is there any documentation
written from our perspective, explaining work flow and basic interface
concepts like how to move from the track view to other views in Reaper?  How
accessible does ReAccess make Reaper?  Are there things we can't do?

 

The user guide mentions some sample projects, but the URL it gives appears
to be out of date, and the samples shown on the wiki are either no longer
there, or a project file with no media associated with it.  I'd love to be
able to work with a full-fledged Reaper project as I go through the
documentation, rather than having to create my own from scratch.  Is there a
repository of such data?

 

Are there any audio tutorials done for screen reader users anywhere?

 

Finally, I'm coming from Sonar, a DAW I understood at least at an
intermediate level.  What concepts translate?  What will I have to relearn
in order to make efficient use of Reaper?

 

Do we have access to the routing matrix I've seen references to?

 

Has anyone used NVDA's audible mouse tracking to do things like draw
automation envelopes?

 

I saw reference to a generic interface for plug-ins that one can use.  Does
this give us the holy grail of access to any arbitrary plug-in?

 

Ok, you can see I'm eager.  I think that's enough questions for the moment.
Gods below, I can't wait to get through this move and set up my work station
again to use this seemingly lovely software.

 

                Chris Bartlett

 

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