[RWP] soft synths and FX

[Indigo]

That track options menu, which begins with Monitor input has all your 
input sources, whether midi or audio, whether mono or stereo, too many 
to list. Reaper's default is to record in mono, so always put a check 
mark onto stereo.
Yes, the versions earlier than 4 don't require ctrl+up arrow to be able 
to display that Track options menu with the applications key.

Reaper always has several ways to do things, so if 1 doesn't work, you 
can often find others.
You know, it's not such a bad idea to join the Cockos forums.
Registering only take seconds, there's no capcha invisible script to 
enter, and you can just ask those sighted users, who know a hell of a lot.
They love talking about Reaper, and though they may never have thought 
about running it blind, they can often find solutions to any way to run 
Reaper.
Worth a try.
Just google Cockos Reaper.
5/2012 3:17 PM, chris flatley wrote:
> 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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