[RWP] Possible keyboard for power users

[Indigo]

Oh I see what you mean, with a USB qwerty keyboard assigned as a reaper 
joystick device.
You could do that, but you'd have to rewrite the default.txt script that 
assigns what the buttons do on the device that's plugged in, and I don't 
think it's currently written to assign 101 or more buttons.
I wouldn't bring in another keyboard through the joystick assignment 
feature, just plug the second keyboard into a USB port.
I've never had any problem in windows with 2 keyboards plugged in.
I've had 2 USB keyboards, 1 USB and 1 PS2, any combination.

I'll give the experiment a try, with 1 USB keyboard set to the standard
ascii set and another set to the extended ascii set.
I don't think windows cares, you can run up to 128 USB devices
simultaneously; and windows tries to scan each of them.
I never experimented to learn what happens if you; say; hit an F on both 
keyboards simultaneously.
I'll bet you get FF, because the scanning of each keyboard is very fast, 
and you're not likely to actually hit the F on both keyboards at the 
same exact instant.
If you did press the keys exactly simultaneously, I'll bet you'd only 
get a single F.
Windows probably would accept only 1 of the same input from 2 sources.
Indi

On 6/7/2013 7:09 PM, TheOreoMonster wrote:
> Windows didn't when i last used it, but the app in question could of
> supported that feature. The Mac however does tend to see two
> keyboards as different keyboards, though don't know if it would work
> in the sense of having extra shortcut keys On Jun 7, 2013, at 6:59
> PM, "Chris Belle" <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> I don't think windows differentiates between two keyboards plugged
>> in in windows unless the second keyboard has other keys that aren't
>> standard. that are different than the other keyboard.
>>
>>
>> I mean different controler keyboards use different ports, but I
>> think the keyboard input is a shared resource.
>>
>> It's not like splitting monitors or other input devices with
>> multiple channels.
>>
>> But I could be wrong.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com> Sent: Friday,
>> June 07, 2013 1:16 PM Subject: Re: [RWP] Possible keyboard for
>> power users
>>
>>
>>> 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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