[RWP] soft synths and FX

[Indigo]

Input for recording is selecting by either of two methods.
The simplest is to select the desired track, then press your tab key 
until you hear Record Input, then arrow to your choice, which might be 
one of your sound card's outputs, or maybe your midi keyboard.
Press enter after making your selection to save it.
For a more complete recording input dialog, select the desired track, 
then press ctrl+up arrow, to unlock a little issue that keeps the dialog 
from displaying, then press the applications key.

The recording input dialog list begins with the words Input Monitor.
If you get another dialog, try the previous instructions again, and 
you'll get there.

As for going to the proper effects routing page, remember to select the 
track which has the effect before pressing F, so that you go to the 
correct effects page
Also, before pressing I for the IO routing dialog, select the track you 
want to configure sends and receives for.
Think of sends as an arrow from the selected track pointing to another 
track, and returns as an arrow pointed from another track back to the 
selected track.
The dialog you're getting when you stop a recording is the save dialog.
You should hear the various save options if you tab down.
You need to select the item name for the recording you just made to 
change its name, and other choices for that item.

As to finding presets in plugIns, If a soft synth has a preset loader, 
you might only hear the words factory Default, or some such announcement 
when you are in the presets list, and maybe you'll only hear an 
oscillator like sound for the number 1 preset, or maybe no sound at all, 
  and.
Sometimes the interface is just unfriendly, and presets aren't 
automatically listed.
That doesn't mean that you can't get at them, but it may take some 
sighted help to locate either the preset load dialog button, or even the 
preset inc dec buttons.
Rapture and Dimension Pro, for example, have a button marked Program 
Handler, in text,  whichI hear spoken somewhere along the top line of 
the interface, by beginning at the upper left screen corner at my number 
pad and moving the cursor to the right.
Left clicking that opens the dialog where you find the programs, or 
presets, and it's a reasonably standard dialog once it is open.
I use several VST synths in which I found, with sighted help, the preset 
increment decrement buttons, which may be graphical up and down pointing 
arrows on the plug's screen.
Once I get to those I can at least move through the presets and play them.
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On 10/4/2012 12:49 PM, chris flatley wrote:
> Couple of issues with the FX window. Having trouble accessing the
> presets in some of the FX plugins, particularly the soft synths. When I
> tab to the presets combo, if I up down arrow I get no preset or factory
> default but nothing else. If I press page down I sometimes get into the
> list where I can up down arrow. But in the soft synths, e.g, rae synth,
> I get nothing no matter what I do. how do I access the presets for soft
> synths? I also have dimension pro installed and it is in the list, but
> again I don't seem to be able to figure out how to access the presets.
> Another issue I'm having is that sometimes after I choose a preset and
> go back to the track view, if I then change my mind and want to choose a
> different effect, pressing F sometimes reopens FX window, but sometimes
> I just stay in the track view, and so tabbing just takes me through the
> track buttons instead of the FX controls. If I do a jaws cursor to read
> the screen, it appears as if the FX window is still open but I just
> can't tab through anything.
> Off topic, but another issue I'm having is how to set ins. Pressing I
> opens the i/o window but there doesn't appear to be any way to select
> inputs from there, just sends, receives and outputs etc. The only way I
> can do it is to use jaws cursor to find the word, in 1, which is just
> after the track title, then right clicking it to bring up a menu. Is
> there a better way than this because it seems so clumsy. One last thing,
> what's that dialogue that appears when you press spacebar to stop
> recording, asking to save files? Is it correct to just hit enter on that
> or what?
> Any help would be great thanks.
>
>
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