[RWP] Novation AutoMap

[Indigo]

Roy, I just tried installing thelatest automap 4.47 on this Windows 7 64 
machine, and I couldn't hear anything from pokeing  around the automap 
page after opening it.
Results may be different when the associated Novation Nocturne 
controller arrives and is plugged in, but there's another possible 
method I hadn't considered; if automap turns out to be an entirely 
non-talking  system.
If I have a plug brought up in Reaper; so I can play it from my midi 
keyboard, and have all of that plug's parameters assigned to the 
Nocturne controller, I could just shut off the screenreader, even shut 
off ReaAccess if that's disturbed by the automap running, and just play 
and tweak parameters of that plug as if I was playing a hardware 
keyboard synth.
There's a set of buttons on the Nocturne to bring up different pages of 
control assignments, and one of those pages can be the reaper transport, 
or I could just use the standard reaper shortcut for record; which is 
ctrl+R ; instead of R when ReaAccess is running.
You can't switch the Novation automap server software off  then back on 
at will, or you need to close and open Reaper so it can rescan the 
automap wrapped plugs, in order for automap to work
It may require some thought how to get around that one, if it can be 
gotten around.
I wish I knew enough about programming to devise a method of pausing the 
running state of AutoMap, then resuming it, without requiring closing 
and reopening Reaper.

Another possibility is to automap the parameters of all my plugs; then 
devise a scheme to transfer those assignments to another control 
surface, like the Edirol PCR; that has no associated software that 
disturbs the screenreader or ReaAccess.
I could then run the PCR  without the automap software going.
There's bound to be some scheme to utilize this automatic assignment of 
any plug's parameters.
Apparently; Novation's AutoMap is not just deriving the plug's 
parameters from Reaper's parameter list; shift+P from track view, 
because; for the sighted user; AutoMap puts a transparent overlay on the 
plug's interface, displaying all the mapped buttons and icons; at their 
usual coordinates  on the plug's interface.
AutoMap seems to be doing what an OCR does, plus assigning buttons and 
icons to hardware controls as it goes.
This would be so valuable, if we can find a way to intercept its 
mapping, or another scheme to utilize it.
I thought that maybe Tim Burgess's Surface Reder might be used with 
Novation Nocturne, since Nocturne has bi-directional communications with 
the computer, as does the Behringer BcCF2000.
Maybe Surface Reader could speak the Nocturne's assignments, including 
Reaper's transport and track arming, so the screenreader and ReaAccess 
wouldn't be needed at that moment.
Just brainStorming, hoping for ideas to emerge,
Indi

Indi