[Rwp] My! Lord! am I impressed!

Christopher-Mark Gilland clgilland07 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 5 19:59:54 EDT 2015 

So, I am still very confused what SWS is.  I'm so sorry!  Really, I swear 
I'm not trying to be a pest about this.

Chris.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "theoreomonster--- via RWP" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2015 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Rwp] My! Lord! am I impressed!


> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *** *** ***
>>> Find me on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/vick08
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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