[Rwp] My! Lord! am I impressed!

[James Teh]

On 7/04/2015 5:24 AM, Scott Chesworth via RWP wrote:
> This is another factor that contributed to my "surfaces in Reaper
> suck" outburst. In Pro Tools (the DAW I've worked with most
> extensively using a surface), it seems like keyboard, mouse and
> surfaces are all keeping track of each other, so it's easy to switch
> to a different input method half way through a task if that's what
> makes you the most efficient.
So let's say your surface is displaying 8 tracks. Which one does the 
keyboard follow? Is it the one you most recently manipulated; e.g. if 
you press mute on track 3, the keyboard will then be dealing with track 
3? That's certainly something I could try to enhance.

> Haven't seen enough to know whether it's
> the same in Sonarville, but given that JSonar implements a fake
> surface to get a lot of it's stuff done, I'd imagine it would be.
There is a way for Sonar surfaces to go to tracks, yes. Whether that 
actually happens is probably dependent on the particular surface driver.

> I
> keep expecting Reaper to behave the same way, but instead find myself
> burning time trying to figure out where each input method was left the
> last time I used it.
It does seem very strange that REAPER still doesn't have a way via the 
API to set the last touched track to an arbitrary track. You can manage 
it in various hacky ways, but it can't be done cleanly.

Jamie

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