[RWP] the latest reaper is worth a look.

[Derek Lane]

By the way, once you've gotten to that view, pressing the applications key will give you the correct menu as well. So, if you have an applications key, things are almost as fast as they  used to be.



> On Jul 27, 2014, at 10:38 AM, Tor Tollhag <tortollhag at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> Not sure if this works with multiple tracks and with the latest
> version of reaper, but here's how I find that recording input menu
> using my laptop that doesn't have an applications key.
> If you're in the trackview, press Control and up errow.
> That will change the view. From the track view, if I press Control up
> errow twice, for me with jaws it will say the Word "left"
> If you're using jaws, you can then route jaws to pc curser and right
> click, and the correct menu should appear. I haven't tested this with
> other screen readers yet, but I hope this helps somewhat at least.
> 
> 
> Tor
> 
> 2014-07-27 15:53 GMT+02:00, Nick Giannak <Nick at hkcradio.com>:
>> The applications key not working is a problem. I can't figure out how
>> I'm supposed to set which stereo or mono input goes with which track,
>> which I used to do fromt he track context menu. Can anyone help?
>>> On 7/27/2014 7:58 AM, Tor Tollhag wrote:
>>> Wow that sounds interesting.
>>> I've recently got reaper 3.78 64 bit installed here with reaaccess
>>> scripts on my new laptop.
>>> Of course I have to learn to use it diferently since I don't have an
>>> applications key, but I guess the applications key partly doesn't work
>>> anyway in reaper 4, I still might check this latest version out.
>>> I know they've now updated to a later version of the elastique time
>>> stretching, I know I tried that out on my other xp machine that I now
>>> don't have anymore and I honestly couldn't tell any diference.
>>> But this sounds interesting.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 2014-07-26 20:28 GMT+02:00, Derek Lane <derek at pdaudio.net>:
>>>> 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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