[RWP] Mobius looper results

[Indigo]

In the Youtube on controlling Mobius, the sighted user configured a midi 
pedal to change the tracks.
Mobius is controllable from midi, plus it has a script.
I don't want to spend a lifetime on it, though, if I can't puzzle out 
how to select its tracks, select whether to record, play or overdub, 
select when to punch in and out with a footpedal plugged into my midi 
control surface, I have several.
So far, in Reaper's effects routing page, I know how to find these 
parameters, input and output track volumes, feedback volume, secondary 
feedback volume, all for the selected track 1 in Mobius.
I'll try to get a recording going in it, then an overdub.
So much easier with a pedal, but so much more limited, in bit depth and
recording rate.
The TV says we'll have computer-controlled cars soon, so blind folks can 
drive ourselves around, and yet we still have plenty of inaccessible 
computer apps, and a complicated hash of partial solutions.
I hope to give Mobius a look on XP, with Wineyes today.
Indi

On 6/23/2014 9:16 PM, Jes wrote:
> Hi Indigo and list,
>
> Having just been playing with Mobius for a few minutes, I can already
> tell you that setting things up must be done in the stand alone
> application, and it requires that you be familiar extensively with your
> screen reader's review cursor or mouse pointer--whatever your screen
> reader calls it, because although you have a nice standard menu bar at
> the top of the screen that you can get to with your traditional alt and
> arrow keys, that's about all you can do with the keyboard as far as
> navigating. Once you get into the dialogues to set stuff up, you will
> have to do a lot of mousing around and clicking and all that crap. There
> is no way to get any list of the hotkeys that Mobius uses, the only
> thing I got to work was R to record. When you hit R to record, assuming
> you've set your audio devices correctly, you should be able to record
> something and then hear a loop played over and over again. But when you
> press R to overdub, what you have recorded gets overwritten, and there
> is no way to check if overdubbing is turned on or off without trial and
> error. I'm going to see if I can make Mobius be the looper it was
> created to be by loading it on its own track in Reaper and sending other
> audio tracks to it but I'm guessing it won't deliver. So for now, this
> is all I've got to report. The plugin cannot be configured in Reaper it
> must be configured in the stand alone application, even selecting the
> tracks that Mobius should record from is not accessible. So, to recap,
> I'm not saying for certain, but right now it looks like we're going to
> have to try something else, as you will be spending most of your time
> dancin and prancin with your review cursor around the main application.
> The initial configuration of the software is a pain in the butt, and the
> program is already complex to use as it is, without all these pathetic
> accessibility barriers which don't need to be there in the first place.
> But hey, I'm going to try the Reaper trick like I said, and maybe that
> will give us something to work with after all, it will be awesome if
> this plugin works for us!
>
>
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