[RWP] Record inputs menu

[Patrick Perdue]

Another thing to change is UI Update in preferences/appearance. Change 
it to "lazy always," and VoiceOver is a bit more responsive with Reaper 
in the foreground.

  On 7/31/2014 8:43 AM, TheOreoMonster wrote:
> About the sluggishness. Under the view menu make sure the docker window is unchecked. For whatever reason this window being open makes reaper runs sluggish with VO. Secondly ReaConsole is just quicker than navigating the track panels  for making selection, setting input or outputs, changing volume and pan etc. I agree we need to figure out why the input menu isn’t consistently visible, but over all for most work it won’t be the main way of getting to things.
> On Jul 31, 2014, at 2:49 AM, Scott Chesworth <scottchesworth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Shoot Tim at SWS a mail, see whether he can cook improve the
>> functionality. Off the top of my head, I'm imagining something that
>> ties in with those friendly names or whatever they're called in the
>> input mappings would be a pretty productive way to handle it from the
>> end user perspective, because it'd be easy to remember syntax that
>> way.
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> On 7/31/14, Victor Tsaran <vtsaran at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I agreee. IT's a work-around. However, I'd rather work with human-readable
>>> device names; I have a lot of inputs, you know! Seriously...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Scott Chesworth <scottchesworth at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just a quick note that you can already select inputs using ReaConsole.
>>>> The syntax is i1 for the first input, i2 etc. Outputs are o1 o2 etc.
>>>>
>>>> Hth
>>>>
>>>> Scott
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 7/30/14, David Eagle <onlineeagle at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>> OK, so I opened Reaper and inserted ten tracks. Reaper suddenly went a
>>>> lot
>>>>> more sluggish, and the layout was a lot more cumbersome, but
>>>>> essentially
>>>> I
>>>>> could see the record input menu for every single track.
>>>>>
>>>>> But it's not quite as simple as that. It doesn't seem plausible to
>>>> navigate
>>>>> through tracks using the arrow keys, as it takes too long and the
>>>>> information can be sporadic and confusing. Instead, I used the item
>>>>> chooser. Interestingly, I was able to see the record input option for
>>>>> the
>>>>> first five tracks, but not the next five. Similarly, I was only able to
>>>> see
>>>>> the record monitoring button for the last five tracksand not the first
>>>>> five. However, when I escaped the item chooser and pressed
>>>>> Options-command-down a few times then went back into the time chooser,
>>>>> I
>>>>> was able to see the record input menu for the last five tracks, but not
>>>> the
>>>>> first five, and similarly the record monitoring button for the first
>>>>> five
>>>>> but not the last five. Does this make sense, and are you able to
>>>>> recreate
>>>>> this? If so, it may help us navigate a lot more reliably and quicker.
>>>>> Thoughts welcome.
>>>>>
>>>>> On a slightly different topic: I wonder however whether it would be
>>>>> possible to have a theme for Reaper that is more straight forward, less
>>>>> visual and more text based. Apparently there are different themes that
>>>>> people create for Reaper. Might this give us an opportunity to have a
>>>> more
>>>>> accessible, straight forward Reaper theme? Also, is there anyway that
>>>>> we
>>>>> could extend the functionality of the RE-console? This would mean that
>>>>> we
>>>>> could select record inputs and such using the console.
>>>>>
>>>>
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