[RWP] ReaAccess Question.

Wed Feb 13 06:54:20 EST 2013

I don't find stumbling blocks in Reaper with ReaAccess, but that may 
come from how simple I work.
Sometimes there are awkward and not speedy actions I'm doing, maybe 
because I don't know the shortcuts I need.
Like; yesterday I had 10 tracks in a midi file.
I needed to assign each track's midi out to my hardware keyboard at the 
tab key's track recording options.
Why couldn't I assign 1 and have the others be assigned.
I like improvements like that, but I don't think there's anything I 
absolutely can't do.
Sonar takes a snapshot of current automation configurations, that would 
be a nice feature, I think there is an equivalent in reaper, but I tend 
to do automations, like pitch bend curves, or volume fades, on the fly, 
or apply them on a separate track after recording, until I get it right, 
an old fashioned way of working, but it give me exactly what I intend.
I'd do the same with opening or closing a filter, put that on a separate 
track, so that is a sort of snapshot of an automation that I can either 
keep or do over, without disturbing the track itself.
David Shortland found how to bring up Reaper's  built in midi editor, 
which provides very convenient and clearly labeled midi events per track 
item, couldn't be nicer or easier, I think.
Quantization works as expected.
I've heard requests in Cockos forums for more choices of swing settings 
in quantization, Jason Frankel will get round to that in time I imagine.
I suppose folks who feel the need for more access are used to what they 
get in Jaws from CakeTalking in Sonar, but I'm a Wineyes user, plus 
NVDA, so never had those scripts, and am used to encountering programs 
raw, and I'm blissfully ignorant of what I'm missing from scripts.

Here are the things I really appreciate in Reaper as it is.
I can take a first time encounter of a VST synth or effect, load it and 
immediately get all its parameters exposed at once.
Effects expose in the effects routing page, listed at either the tab 
key, or the parameters combo box.
If I tab to a parameter, like a equalizer high shelf band, there is the 
edit box with values waiting at the arrow keys.
The next tab down might be another equalizer frequency band, or maybe a 
Q setting.

In VST synths; by pressing shift+P at the track view, I get a vertical 
list of as many as 800 parameters, like in FM8,.
Yes, it's awkward to tab to the slider, to make changes, then tab back 
to the parameter list again; and values are only shown as 1 to 1000, 
but, if there is a  change, I usually hear it as it soon as it's made, 
no need to hit apply to hear the change.
Also, with Wineyes in effects routing page, I can sometimes immediately 
find parameters on the VST synths interface, like yesterday, in 
LinPlug's CronoX 3; screen scraping at the number pad; I found the 
catagory of presets, like ambiance, gators, sequences, etcetera, and 
clicking any division within that gets to the preset list in that 
subdivision.
I'm still looking for the word Load on CronoX's  interface, to load 
samples onto as many as 64 keyboard keys, it's there somewhere.
I never had that much immediate plug interface access in Sonar; where 
the interface's screen is cluttered with way more labels thatbelong to 
Sonar itself, and not to the plug.
So far, I believe we have found 3 or 4 workarounds that let us keep 
going as Reaper versions change and break what previously worked:
1. Jim Snowbarger found that hitting ctrl+down arrow, sometimes just 
Page Down, causes reluctant FX parameters to display in the FX routing 
page's parameter combo box.
Sorry, Jim, if I didn't get that right for use in Jaws, that's what 
works for me, once you showed the way.
Jim also wrote scripts to allow immediate auditioning of media as you 
arrow through them; Sound Forge style.

2. Roy Shtupler found ctrl+up arrow forces the reluctant applications 
key context menu for extended track recording options to display.
There again, for me, ctrl plus two presses of up arrow works better.
3. David Shortland showed us how to get at Reaper's built in midi event 
editor, when the previous ctrl+enter broke; and wouldn't displaying the 
Reaper inline midi editor.
The built in event editor is way better than Reaper's inline editor ever 
was.

So, it's a hodgPodge of workArounds, who cares, as long as it works?
I'm surprised that someone hasn't gone to Reaper's list of thousands of 
unused actions and added more actions, with shortcuts, to ReaAccess.
ReaAccess is partly a bunch of standard Reaper actions neatly collected 
in one place for us.
Of course, it's actually more than that; and I really value what Ivan 
did to give access to Reaper's IO routing matrix; which would have been 
impossible for us to use; and gave us a convenient dialog for IO routing.
Even without resorting to screenreader specific scripts, someone could 
create an addendum to ReaAccess with a collection of Reaper actions and 
shortcuts, maybe even default Reaper macros;  that would speed our work.

Indi

On 2/12/2013 8:06 AM, Steve Spamer wrote:
> What are the main stumbling blocks to accessibility with Reaper at the
> moment? What really needs to be done?  Cheers Steve.
>
>
> Visit:
> www.vipaudioaccess.com
> for audio access solutions, articles, demos, to showcase your music and  to
> basically get involved!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at reaaccess.com] On Behalf Of Indigo
> Sent: 12 February 2013 12:24
> To: Reapers Without Peepers
> Subject: Re: [RWP] ReaAccess Question.
>
> Yeah, we'll see version 2 of ReaAccess, about the same time folks see pigs
> flying through the air.
>
> On 2/12/2013 6:47 AM, Jim Noseworthy wrote:
>> Hi folks:
>>
>> Beeing out of the loop for a while: are we still expecting V2 of
> ReaAccess?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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