[RWP] Record inputs menu

[TheOreoMonster]

yeah you definitely need to know what you are doing with aggregate devices. But since my interface is a mixer, like patrick I find it easier to just use numbers and never bother with friendly names. Both have utility though.
On Jul 31, 2014, at 12:59 PM, Patrick Perdue <patrick at pdaudio.net> wrote:

> I have 32 inputs on one interface myself, although I'm used to, and would rather, work with channel numbers than friendly names. This is only my preference. I can see the utility for having both, especially when using things like aggregate devices, where names and  channel maps don't necessarily line up across multiple systems. I just recently ran into that when designing an audio distribution system for a museum for something like 30 Mac workstations.
> 
> On 7/31/2014 2:00 AM, Victor Tsaran 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 <mailto: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
>>    <mailto: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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