[RWP] soft synths and FX

[Indigo]

I never messed with docking in Reaper, just left it set to default.
As far as I know, I never got any advantage from docking toolbars or 
menus or whatever in any program.
Doesn't seem to help Window-Eyes or NVDA, not sure if Jaws benefits from 
changing docking position on the screen.


On 10/5/2012 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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