[RWP] Possible keyboard for power users

[Indigo]

I've been giving this some thought, and wonder if, when I finish 
assigning all the possible shortcuts on the normal qwerty keyboard, 
including using the windows key as a modifier, maybe one could run a 
second USB keyboard set up with shortcuts made with ctrl, shift, alt, 
windows, plus all the extended ascii set, I think another 127 
characters; you know; smiley faces; clock; accents from European 
languages; etcetera?
I realize programmers use those extended ascii symbols, so wonder if 
using them as shortcuts might somehow screw with the code within Reaper
I don't know how they work these days, but many users of older Cubase 
would set up a second keyboard just for shortcuts.
One company even supplied labels to stick on keys, to keep track of the 
purpose of shortcuts
I especially like that these neat little Logitech USB keyboards, like 
the one I'm typing on right now, only cost $10 online.
It doesn't have a USB bus, but it has volume control keys; also a mute 
key that shuts speech off, causing a panic when one accidently presses 
it. smile.
I think, with alt, ctrl, windows and shift, that would provide over 400 
new shortcuts.
I seem to remember that Reaper can use the left and right ctrl keys as 
separate modifiers; maybe also separate left and right shift keys.
How many shortcuts can we remember?
Indi


On 6/7/2013 1:44 PM, Monkey Pusher wrote:
> Since reaper seems to be able to take shorcut keys from anything that
> can send a  *pulse* to the computer via USB a gamimg  keyboard like
> this may be a good idea for some of  the power users out there. Anyone
> Brave enough to take a chance? lol
>
> http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=109&cp_id=10828&cs_id=1082808&p_id=9181&seq=1&format=2&cl=res&utm_source=130607_dadsgrads&utm_medium=email&utm_content=9181&utm_campaign=dadsgrads_q2_2013
>
> THey have others as well some with out the backlit and may be cheaper.
> I need to verify these keyboards can work with a mac before trying it
> myself but you windows guys shouldn't have a problem as these gaming
> keyboards are usually windows compatible out of the box.
>
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