[RWP] Creating functions?
Chris Belle
cb1963 at sbcglobal.net
Mon Sep 16 20:08:44 EDT 2013
Cool, will have a look around.
----- Original Message -----
From: Monkey Pusher
To: Reapers Without Peepers
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: [RWP] Creating functions?
I am sure if you look around hard enough you can still find copies of
the jam pack disc that apple put out that are now all in GB. Then you
wont even need the mac lol.
On 9/16/13, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Glad your getting some grease on in the mac world.
> with reaper.
>
> If I ever get a mac, I'll probably slave it to a sequencer on windows, and
> just use the content and sounds out of gb, there's some pretty good stuff in
> there.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: TheOreoMonster
> To: Reapers Without Peepers
> Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 11:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [RWP] Creating functions?
>
>
> Yeah, as Scott says, drag and drop, and more specifically the mouse down
> and mouse up controls tends to yield better results and allow us to drag
> and drop the way sights usually do on the mac.
>
> Reaper on the mac - it's a challenging work in progress. Honestly if Scott
> hasn't turned me onto Reaconsole I'd probably still be living in a solely
> Pro TOols and Garage Band world. Yes the mac version doesn't have the
> toolbars and other elements contained in their own containers like most
> proper mac apps so there is a lot to navigate through on screen. Also It
> doesn't properly *see* the UI so unlike in the Reaccess world you can't just
> up and down arrow from track to track automatically selecting them as u go.
> You pretty much navigate through most of the track elements like I/O FX,
> Volume, Pan etc. Also a lot of the shortcut you guys use were brought to
> reaper with ReaAccess. So i had to go in and create a lot of those shortcuts
> like all the time selection ones myself. That being said Between
> ReaConsole, Assigning shortcut keys to actions, Making my custom actions,
> and having a control surface at my disposal, I manage to make it work for
> me. Also knowing the mac and VoiceOver the way you know Windows and your
> Windows screen Readers inside out helps.Understanding the Mac's Conventions
> and Paradimes has helped me a lot with making my way around apps like Garage
> Band and Reaper, as i use things like HotSpotting and item Chooser to save
> on all the navigating and interacting and stop interacting you would Do
> otherwise in some of these apps. Also understanding the differences between
> drag and drop, and mouse down and mouse up, and when to use which helps a
> lot also. Also a physical mouse or track pad is needed as i said before, VO
> doesn't *see* the interface properly, so the VO double click gesture doesn't
> work. Though sometimes VO+Space automatically acts as a double click on
> certain elements, like highlighting a track. I don't know that i would use
> reaper on the mac for a 24 track mix project just yet, but for a few tracks
> like podcast or mixing vocals/other instruments in with an already mixed
> backing track, its a great time Save over Pro TOols at the moment, and
> ReaConsole has a lot to do with that. SO seriously, ReaConsole is available
> on windows too as part of the SWS Extensions. Learn to use it. It will make
> you love reaper even more. Me personally, I don't have a modern windows
> machine in the house, and can't really for sea every buying another one, and
> don't have eyes around to help me boot camp. So it was worth the couple days
> of time it took me to make shortcuts and custom actions, and i can now do my
> loop based productions with the same efficiency i had on windows without
> using Garage Band. If only Pro TOols allowed you to import loops and
> honored the loop meta data when using the standard import dialogue, I would
> of never even dug in to reaper like this. But alas, all the ways to use
> loops the way i like to are not efficient with VO in PT.
>
> On Sep 13, 2013, at 2:11 PM, Goldfinga Productions <goldfingas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > How accessible is this thing on the mac? I really didn't understand how
> it worked with voice over. there were so many things on the screen… I got
> lost!
> >
> >
> > On Sep 12, 2013, at 1:21 PM, Monkey Pusher <monkeypusher69 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On the mac, i had to click and drag. Think Indie said it was similar
> >> for windows screen readers.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 9/12/13, Goldfinga Productions <goldfingas at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> now to move them, do I just hit enter on the action I want to add to
> the
> >>> list?
> >>> On Sep 10, 2013, at 9:32 PM, TheOreoMonster
> <monkeypusher69 at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> It sounds like what you are looking to do is create a custom action.
> You
> >>>> can say create new actions as in add functionality that isn't there
> yet,
> >>>> sans having doe programming chops perhaps. What you can however do
> is
> >>>> chain to gather actions that are already available to you. for
> example I
> >>>> have one that will set the end point and automatically select all
> items on
> >>>> selected track in time selection with just one keystroke. Sorry i am
> on
> >>>> the mac so can't give you reaaccess keyboard shortcuts and windows
> screen
> >>>> reader specific directions, but the basic just is this. Bring up the
> >>>> actions list, navigate to where it says custom action and click the
> new
> >>>> button. You will then get an empty box to the right of a box with all
> your
> >>>> available actions in it. An edit field to name the action and an
> edit
> >>>> field to search through the available actions so u don't have to
> scroll
> >>>> through that massive list. Find the actions u want and move them
> into the
> >>>> empty box in the order in which you want the actions performed. once
> done,
> >>>> navigate to where you can assign a keyboard shortcut and choose
> whether it
> >>>> shows up in the regular actions list or not. Search the group for
> custom
> >>>> actions as i did a fairly long and more in-depth write up on this a
> couple
> >>>> months ago.
> >>>> On Sep 10, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Goldfinga Productions
> <goldfingas at gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> As the subject says, how do I go about creating functions to add to
> the
> >>>>> functions list? is there a way to also automate functions together
> to
> >>>>> make a type of batch process? I am tryinng to cut down on the
> keystrokes.
> >>>>> I think Keven Reeves was asking something like this a while back,
> but I
> >>>>> don't remember if anyone came up with anything. lol. I think that
> was the
> >>>>> three that got kind of long. I do remember something like that
> though. I
> >>>>> was just wondering how easy or hard it is to create custom
> functions?
> >>>>> Thanks for any help…
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> GF
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Check me out on twitter
> >>>>> http://www.twitter.com/goldfingas
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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