[RWP] soft synths and FX

Fri Oct 5 15:17:31 EDT 2012

Hi Indigo. Yes the menu you mention is the one I was accessing by right clicking. Now I have 3.78 installed I can just press applications on the track like you say and that menu opens. In Dimension Pro, I can't find the button you mention named program handler. Using the Jaws cursor, I only hear the title bar, and the line below, which reads a series of buttons that are accessible to the PC cursor, but none of them open the program browser list. With the help of a sighted person I've done a script for it. Like you I've found that having someone to look at the screen and tell me what is going on has helped to clear up a lot of stuff, especially to do with the FX window. I found sometimes it was on the screen, but jaws was reading the track view instead, but I think I'm on top of that now. It seems you can either close the FX window completely or have it docked on the right. This was really confusing me when I was trying to work out what was going on without someone who could see.
My big problem at the moment though is copying audio. Today I wanted to do a couple of hours of practice because I haven't done any in days while learning reaper. |I thought I knew enough to make a little drum and bass loop to use as a kind of tonal metronome, which is how I like to practice, but I spent the 2 to 3 hours just messing around with reaper trying to do stuff I thought I had already sussed out. Have to say, that was quite a big blow for Reaper. 

> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 12:51:46 -0400
> From: 33indigo at charter.net
> To: rwp at reaaccess.com
> Subject: Re: [RWP] soft synths and FX
> 
> 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.
> .
> 
> 
> 
> 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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