[RWP] the latest reaper is worth a look.

[Derek Lane]

I've been using reaper 3.78 for the last 3 years due to the ease of routing, and other related features of both that interface, and the working reaaccess.
However, I was told that the latest version of reaper offers a sends/receives/hardware output dialog which one could tab through.
The problem in reaper 4 which annoyed me was that the sends/receives menu, normally accessed with shift+applications, no longer worked, and that I didn't want to spend time messing with a screen reader if I didn't have too.
Now, as I said, pressing I gives you a dialog which I find to be very easy to use.  Sure, in projects where lots of routing exists, tabbing through the options for the master  and each send could be tedious, but muscle memory will prevail, taking care of that issue.  Furthermore, it is possible to type values in the majority of the fields presented in this dialog.
I don't know if the reaper developers actively made these changes for sake of accessibility, or if it was one of those accidental things, but for those who are in contact with the developers, encourage them to keep going in the direction they seem to be heading.

Now the only standing issues for me are a way of editing automation, and the little semantic issue where the reaccess preferences are in the item menu, which didn't exist in reaper 3.
I'm guessing a trip to the menu  editor would fix that problem, but I haven't played with that extensively.
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