[RWP] Mobius looper results

[Jes]

Let us know how you get along!

Original message:
> 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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