[RWP] SONAR to REAPER.pdf

[Scott Chesworth]

Sadly, nope. It's not a case of training VoiceOver to recognize
colours. The meters are currently invisible so there's nothing to
teach Vo, and no VO function to do so even if that weren't the case.
This one has gotta come from either the Reaper developers who could
expose the meters as part of the channel strip GUI for each track, or
via the same method ReaAccess uses which queries the API.

On 8/21/14, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:
> In Cockos Forums they say that, beginning in version 4, volume became a
> bar graph display, instead of the old-fashioned meters of previous
> versions.
> I think, as the bar creeps to the right it changes color, becoming red
> when recording levels become too hot.
> If voice over has color properties detection, turn that on and tell it
> to let you know when it sees red.
> Jaws and Window-eyes can do that, but I haven't configured that feature
> in eons.
> In the forums they said to get old-style meters, choose expanded theme
> in mixer.
> I'm not sure how that could be applied to your problem, but maybe look
> for an expanded theme somewhere.
> In Reaper I think I chose Classic Theme sometime way back, , but forget
> where those are chosen.
> Hope any of this helps,
> Indi
>
> On 8/21/2014 8:08 AM, TheOreoMonster wrote:
>> Either  Reaper's developers will have to make the meters visible to
>> voiceover or we'll have to find a way to grab it from the API and direct
>> it to some kind of speech output, Given what i know of the mac the latter
>> shouldn't be too difficult for someone who is fimilar with the process.
>> It's the one major thing that  VO doesn't read as it reads pretty much
>> every thing else considerably better than it does on windows.
>> On Aug 21, 2014, at 6:51 AM, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks again Scott, I forgot, shouldn't assume anything isn't from
>>> ReaAccess.
>>> I meant to google for straight Reaper's method for displaying the meters,
>>> for a clue how mac users could locate the meters.
>>> If you mac users knew where on the screen the meters are displayed, would
>>> you have a method to get Voice Over to read what the meters are showing,
>>> or does some script need to be written to convert the bit map image into
>>> speech?
>>> I mean, if the meters are pictures of old-fashioned VU meters, with a
>>> needle pointing to numbers, is that a complex problem to get translated
>>> into spoken numbers?
>>> I'm trying to get a handle onto how much difficulty it is to get more
>>> access with a mac, in case I decide to make my life more complicated one
>>> day by buying a mac.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Indi
>>>
>>> On 8/20/2014 7:53 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
>>>> Your meters being read in Windows is an API-based ReaAccess function,
>>>> so there's not a Mac equivalent for that yet.
>>>>
>>>> Scott
>>>>
>>>> On 8/20/14, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:
>>>>> When a track is recording or playing in Reaper's track view press
>>>>> either
>>>>> j or k key on your qwerty keyboard.
>>>>> On 8/20/2014 12:22 PM, David Eagle wrote:
>>>>>> No, the meter readings don't show on the Mac version with voice over.
>>>>>> Where do they show on the windows version?
>>>>>> So can anyone offer any clarification about triggering items with
>>>>>> midi
>>>>>> keys?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 20 Aug 2014, at 17:12, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You're on mac, and it isn't showing the left and right meters with j
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>> k keys, as it would with a PC?
>>>>>>>> On 8/20/2014 5:58 AM, David Eagle wrote:
>>>>>>>> Isn't there an equivalent to matrix in reaper? I'm sure I read
>>>>>>>> somewhere
>>>>>>>> that it is possible to trigger a part of a project and samples with
>>>>>>>> midi. I haven't played with midi yet. In fact, I'm sure I saw an
>>>>>>>> option
>>>>>>>> to trigger an item with a midi note. So far I'm finding editing in
>>>>>>>> reaper much quicker and easier than with sonar. And I've used sonar
>>>>>>>> for
>>>>>>>> ten years, and reaper for less than a month. I just wish there was
>>>>>>>> some
>>>>>>>> way of reading the db meter. I've sent an email to reaper, but no
>>>>>>>> response yet.
>>>>>>>> Thanks.
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