[RWP] SONAR to REAPER.pdf

Sat Aug 23 11:37:31 EDT 2014

PDF’s can be useful, especially it they have a table of contents easier to keep your place and jump around document. I actually stopped converting most PDF’s to text as for large documents its not practical to read that  way.
On Aug 22, 2014, at 10:09 AM, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:

> I just cllicked on the link provided here, then once it opened and displayed, I selected all with ctrl+a and copied the whole text to clipboard, with ctrl+C then pasted it with ctr+V into Jarte, my favorite word processer, and saved it as SonarToReaper.txt.
> 
> Unless you really want the links that jump quickly to topics, I think the time waiting to load PDF's  is a pain, and always convert them to text anyway.
> Indi
> On 8/22/2014 4:17 AM, Oriol Gómez wrote:
>> where can you get this sonar to reaper pdf?
>> 
>> On 8/22/14, Scott Chesworth <scottchesworth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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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