[RWP] Jim, your scripts for Reaper

Fri Mar 30 04:45:25 EDT 2012

I have often found myself using Windows search to look for a particular file from my rather vast sound library, and wish that Reaper, like Garage Band, had an option to allow dragging and dropping, or copy/paste, directly to the project window. With Garage Band, you can literally copy a file from Finder, then drop it where you want on the timeline, and it creates a new track with that file on it. Usually, I have stuff buried in sub-sub-sub folders, so it's easier to just copy whatever I'm looking for into a temporary directory, import from there, then kill it later once it's been incorporated into the project directory. This, of course, assumes I don't know exactly where the thing I'm looking for is in the first place. There has to be a more efficient way of doing that.

On Mar 29, 2012, at 11:00 PM, Jim Snowbarger wrote:

> the nice thing about this dialog, once we get it to work, is that it is really fast.  If you check the autoplay checkbox, it's amazing, when you up and down arrow, how quickly the current file stops, and the new files starts.  It's damned near immediate.
> Of course, the advantage to the Winamp approach, is that you can also easily buzz through the file, looking for a piece you actually care about where as, with the reaper dialog, I think you just have to listen through it from the start.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "colin McDonald" <blulemon at telus.net>
> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 4:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [RWP] Jim, your scripts for Reaper
> 
> 
>> using JFW 10 here and I get the same results more or less...I can tab through all the various buttons and such, but I can't navigate within the explorer folders.
>> wow, something that isn't fully accessible in reaper, who'd have thunk it lol.
>> I didn't know it was there either I don't think.
>> I guess it's a quick and easy way to browse your files to select the one you want, but I'm so used to doing that in winamp or in regular explorer views in windows that I'm pretty quick at it now.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Colin
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "david hindmarch" <david.hindmarch1 at ntlworld.com>
>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 6:17 AM
>> Subject: Re: [RWP] Jim, your scripts for Reaper
>> 
>> 
>>> If you use the key commands alt plus control plus x, you will find your self in the media explore dialog.  If you press the back key you will find that there is no movement from one folder to another.  I have replaced the back key with the action control plus shift plus back, and this has proved successful.
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
>>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
>>> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 1:06 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [RWP] Jim, your scripts for Reaper
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Okay, so where is the Media Explorer, which is within Reaper, right, not a Mac feature?
>>>> 
>>>> On 3/29/2012 6:51 AM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
>>>>> Hang on a second... think you guys are comparing notes on different
>>>>> dialogs? Indigo is using the Insert Media entry from the Insert top
>>>>> menu which is indeed a standard open dialog, but David is trying to
>>>>> figure out the Media Explorer window, which isn't.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I don't really have a solution, just wanted to clarify that there are
>>>>> two approaches to pulling stuff into a project before things got too
>>>>> confusing.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 3/29/12, david hindmarch<david.hindmarch1 at ntlworld.com>  wrote:
>>>>>> Thanks for looking at this for me, it must be my configuration,  I'm using a
>>>>>> Mac book with windows XP in boot camp, so this might be the problem.
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "indigo"<33indigo at charter.net>
>>>>>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers"<rwp at reaaccess.com>
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 9:27 AM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [RWP] Jim, your scripts for Reaper
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Well, in Window-Eyes, I press the shortcut ctrl+insert key, the one above
>>>>>>> the arrow keys, but for some reason that didn't work in Jaws 13, so I went
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> to the Reaper menus, to the insert menu, arrowed down once to Insert
>>>>>>> Media, hit enter, and I got the last folder I was in, a bunch of midi
>>>>>>> files.
>>>>>>> I loaded one and it worked as expected.
>>>>>>> I didn't think to press enter on that midi file, but I bellieve if I did
>>>>>>> it would have played in Winamp, same with .wav and mp3's.
>>>>>>> I haven't tried that in the Reaper media dialog, but I will and get back.
>>>>>>> Sure I can hear their names and extensions, arrow up and down, go up to
>>>>>>> the parent folder and change it for another in my large midi files folder,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> all the stuff all Microsoft browse folders do, same inside Reaper as
>>>>>>> outside.
>>>>>>> I didn't notice anything about the backspace key.
>>>>>>>  Or, maybe you mean alt plus left arrow
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> If it's alt+left arrow,29/2012 4:02 AM, david hindmarch wrote:
>>>>>>>> Are you able to move up and down a list of files and listen to them? and
>>>>>>>> does jaws tell you what those files are when you up or down arrow?
>>>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "indigo"<33indigo at charter.net>
>>>>>>>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers"<rwp at reaaccess.com>
>>>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 7:30 AM
>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [RWP] Jim, your scripts for Reaper
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> David, No problems in Jaws 13 demo browsing for media in Reaper 4.21,
>>>>>>>>> with the latest available ReaAccess.
>>>>>>>>> I 'm even on Jaws 13 writing this email, sure feels funny after NVDA,
>>>>>>>>> but it's not the least bit sluggish on this old 2.2 GHZ machine on XP.
>>>>>>>>> Very impressive!
>>>>>>>>> On 3/29/2012 2:14 AM, indigo wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> No problem here browsing for media to insert into Reaper 4.21; either
>>>>>>>>>> with Wineyes 6.1 or NVDA on XP, on 2 different computers, 1 an old
>>>>>>>>>> pentium 4, the other a new Intel I7.
>>>>>>>>>> The media doesn't play as you arrow across it, like in Sound Forge,
>>>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>>>> would be nice, but not absolutely essential.
>>>>>>>>>> The Reaper media browse dialog is 100 percent standard Windows , and I
>>>>>>>>>> don't get how it can't work, if you can browse for files in other
>>>>>>>>>> browse
>>>>>>>>>> dialogs outside Reaper.
>>>>>>>>>> I'll try it in a minute with Jaws 13 demo.
>>>>>>>>>> Indigo L
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> On 3/28/2012 2:43 PM, david hindmarch wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Dear Jim, would it be difficult to make a script which would give
>>>>>>>>>>> focus to the cursor keys whilst browsing the media explore dialog. You
>>>>>>>>>>> can move to a file using key commands which is useful if you can
>>>>>>>>>>> remember the name of a poticular wave file you wish to preview. In
>>>>>>>>>>> Reaper version 3.7 with an early version of ReaAccess it was possible
>>>>>>>>>>> to arrow up and down files with in a folder but this is not possible
>>>>>>>>>>> with the current version of ReaAccess and Reaper.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> 
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