[Rwp] My! Lord! am I impressed!

[Chris Belle]

I see the can of worms Jamie could get in to trying to make everything 
work on both sides of the fence.

If it comes down to it, I'd rather see him sticking with windows and
NVDA,
as that is the base line.




On 4/5/2015 9:04 PM, Patrick Perdue via RWP wrote:
> I primarily use Reaper in Windows. I've looked at it a bit on OS X, 
> but for me, it's way more efficient to get work done in Windows, which 
> is one of the reasons I stay there. And, yes, my primary computer is 
> currently a bootcamped Mac. Another being access to plugins. The 
> built-in Reaper stuff works great on OS X, but so many other things 
> don't, generally being written with cross-platform tools. And, let's 
> not even talk about softsynths and midi stuff in general.
>
> I'll be the first to admit that I'm not the best person to ask about 
> Mac access, but I, for one, would be interested in any improvements 
> that could be made.
>
> On 4/5/2015 9:55 PM, James Teh via RWP wrote:
>> FWIW, I ask all of this only because, as Scott noted, we're looking 
>> into porting OSARA to Mac. However, if Mac users are already entirely 
>> happy with what they have with REAPER (i.e. you can access everything 
>> you need and you believe it's sufficiently efficient), there may not 
>> be much point in investing much effort into it. So far, I get the 
>> impression existing Mac users are happy with the workflow as is. 
>> Personally, from what I have heard from others and understand on a 
>> technical level, I don't think it's sufficient, but I'm also not a 
>> Mac user and therefore my opinion is irrelevant.
>>
>> Sent from a mobile device
>>
>>> On 6 Apr 2015, at 10:40 am, theoreomonster--- via RWP 
>>> <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes meters are a non starter. However there is a inexpensive third 
>>> party meter in the app store. Use Sound flower to send a copy of the 
>>> audio from your maker track to that meter app and monitor it with 
>>> the hot key assigned to the app and enter speaks with system voice. 
>>> crude work around but it works for now.  Vic did address meters with 
>>> his plug in but i never got it working. would be curious if others 
>>> try it and have success with it.  the master track can’t be the last 
>>> touched track but it is nice to have access t all the options on the 
>>> channel strip minus meters
>>>> On Apr 5, 2015, at 8:34 PM, James Teh via RWP 
>>>> <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 6/04/2015 10:25 AM, theoreomonster--- via RWP wrote:
>>>>> Yes neither of those plug ins give you full access in the same way 
>>>>> you can make it the last touched track
>>>> I could be wrong, but I suspect you can't actually make it the last 
>>>> touched track on the Mac either. As far as I know, REAPER doesn't 
>>>> allow the master to ever be the last touched track. You can 
>>>> certainly navigate it, though. Also, you don't have full access 
>>>> with what REAPER natively exposes in the sense that you can't 
>>>> access meters, for example.
>>>>
>>>>> I don’t know if this has since been solved but it was tricky at 
>>>>> one point to get to the master I/O button on windows
>>>> It's tricky in Windows, but I did manage to create an action to do 
>>>> this in OSARA, which is somewhat faster than finding the button 
>>>> manually.
>>>>
>>>> Jamie
>>>>
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