[RWP] Record inputs menu

[Derek Lane]

The only way I think that kind of thing could work would be a means of extending autocomplete  functionality  where a question mark 



>  Which could provide a list of human readable options  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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