[Rwp] My! Lord! am I impressed!

Sun Apr 5 19:03:48 EDT 2015

One thing to note here. From what i understand Reaper has no API’s for the master track so neither SWS nor any or the reaper access plug ins can access the master track. However VO sees it and i can use VO keys to do stuff on the master track 
> On Apr 5, 2015, at 5:10 PM, Scott Chesworth via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> 
> Definitely take what Vic's done so far for a spin if you're of a
> curious mind, it's bear bones, but saved a lot of VO-ing around when I
> tried it.
> 
> FWIW, for anyone who doesn't know, I recently submitted an application
> that'd secure some funding for the more labour intensive less fun
> areas of OSARA development. No news on whether my bid has been
> accepted just yet, but one of the things that was included based on
> some consultation with Jamie is some hours to investigate what'd be
> involved in a Mac port of the project. There's a further bunch of
> hours blocked and accounted for if that research goes well. Please
> understand that it's mostly speculation at this stage, and the Mac
> stuff doesn't even begin to come into play until next year on the
> roadmap we cooked up, so this isn't a commitment that OSARA will be
> cross platform next week, it's merely someone saying that there's
> interest that will be explored if the money arrives.
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> On 4/5/15, Victor Tsaran via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>> Hi Christopher.
>> While I agree that by default Reaper seems to be more accessible on the Mac
>> when you open it up, the current flow is very inefficient for a serious
>> production work where speed and time is important. THis is why both Windows
>> and Mac version do need enhancements in order to to be comparable to
>> something like Sonar with either JSonar or Caketalking scripts.
>> I started writing a Mac OS plugin for Reaper, but just can't find the time
>> to jumpstart this and move the code from the "noodle" state into something I
>> would not be ashamed to share with the public! <grin>
>> If you wish, I would be happy to share with yu the  Dropbox where you can
>> download and try out the plugin.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Victor
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>>> On Apr 4, 2015, at 6:51 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland via RWP
>>> <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Jamie, in answer to your question, I just opened it up, hit command+T to
>>> create a track, then went into the track strip, found the volume,
>>> vo+shift+down arrowed to interact with it, and then did a vo+up arrow.
>>> Yes.  I was able to increment and decrement the slider with absolutely no
>>> issue at all.
>>> 
>>> The only querk so far I have seen is when you get to the text box for the
>>> track name, you can't just start typing the name into it.  Routing the
>>> mouse then doing vo+shift+space to literally click doesn't work either.
>>> The trick is, when you get to the text field, hit vo+space.  Then, you'll
>>> hear Voiceover say, "Double click name."  Then, you type the name of the
>>> track, then hit return to apply the change.
>>> 
>>> Aside this though, I haven't yet found anything not to work.  Granted,
>>> I've not really opened much of anything in it, or played much yet with it
>>> on the mac side, but from what very little I can see on the outer core of
>>> things, it looks extremely doable!
>>> 
>>> Hey, do we actually have another e-mail list for the discussion of Reaper
>>> with Voiceover on the Mac?  If we don't, and you all are at all
>>> interested, I'd be more! than willing to set up a list for this purpose
>>> through my hosting provider.
>>> 
>>> You guys just let me know if you'd like me to proceed with setting it up.
>>> It probably wouldn't take me but about 30 minutes at most to create the
>>> list, and get it all configured on the back admin end, so it's totally
>>> totally conveniently something I can do, and am extremely willing to do.
>>> You all just let me know.
>>> 
>>> Chris.
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: James Teh via RWP
>>> To: Reapers Without Peepers
>>> Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2015 9:17 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Rwp] My! Lord! am I impressed!
>>> 
>>> Out of interest, can you actually adjust the sliders for volume, etc. in,
>>> say, the track view? I ask because I realised the other day that the base
>>> accessibility code for the UI toolkit REAPER uses for these controls is
>>> actually open source. I took a look at the code and, like on Windows, I
>>> couldn't see any code for making adjusting these controls accessible, even
>>> though it does indeed make the values readible. Of course, I could just be
>>> missing something, hence my curiosity...
>>> 
>>> Jamie
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sent from a mobile device
>>> 
>>>> On 5 Apr 2015, at 10:47 am, Christopher-Mark Gilland via RWP
>>>> <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Guys, I'm going to keep this e-mail, unlike my normal nature, very terse,
>>>> and incredibly short/sweet to the point, as it probably won't effect a
>>>> lot of you.  It's Reaper related yes, but only somewhat indirectly.  I
>>>> think though you should read this.  If it's over 2 paragraphs long, I'll
>>>> vbe shocked, so  just go ahead and read it.  I think you'll be glad that
>>>> you did.
>>>> 
>>>> So, as a lot of you know perhaps, I am both a Windows as well as a mac
>>>> user.  Well, I decided today, what the heck, let me install Reaper on my
>>>> Yosemite machine and check it's accessibility out, if there be any at
>>>> all.  I must say that I was not very hopeful.
>>>> 
>>>> Folks?  I? am! blown away!  It is flawless!  I have yet to find a screen
>>>> that doesn't read!  All the buttons are seeming to be completely properly
>>>> labeled, all the preferences screens read correctly, even the actions
>>>> screen is totally! totally! accessible.  These developers really! really!
>>>> deserve a huge! amount of credit.  This is wonderful!  Cockos just gained
>>>> even more! respect from me.  Not that I didn't have it before, but now, I
>>>> really! have very high hopes for this DAW!  I know one thing:  I
>>>> definitely! am e-mailing their support and congratulating them on such a
>>>> fantastically accessible recording sollution.  This is absolutely
>>>> awesome!
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for letting me share my utter joy!
>>>> 
>>>> Chris.
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