[Rwp] I have installed Reaper, let the dumb questions begin!

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Also, you should be able to press alt and F to get to the file menu, and use the right arrow to skip to the other menus. I am also planning on exploring Reaper in windows in the next couple of weeks, so I'm currently watching this list with interest. from my iPhone

> On 31 Aug 2015, at 13:09, Matej Golian via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi John, I'm pretty new to Reaper myself and therefore I'm afraid that
> I can't give you much advanced advice, but you can press alt+f to open
> the file menu. Pressing F10 works as well. Than you can also try the
> following:
> alt+e - open the edit menu
> alt+v - open the view menu
> alt+i - open the insert menu
> alt+o - open the options menu
> alt+a - open the actions menu
> alt+h - open the help menu
> I don't know whether there are any podcasts made specifically for
> Osara, but as far as I know the keymap Gianluca provided (the one you
> are using) is very similar to the one that comes with ReaAccess by
> default and so I suspect that much that has been done for ReaAccess
> will work with Osara as well (if not all of it).
> Hope that helped.
> 
> 2015-08-31 9:58 GMT+02:00, John Schucker via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>:
>> Hey all. As the subject line indicates, I have finally installed Reaper,
>> 5.01, just downloaded today, 64-bit on 64-bit Windows 10. OSARA 64-bit,
>> SWS extension 2.8.0.0. I've imported the latest keymap from the OSARA
>> website. Running NVDA 2015.3. So here we go with the dumb questions.
>> 
>> Do menus work in Reaper? Because hitting alt doesn't seem to bring
>> anything up for me, I have to go into screen review and route with
>> nvda-num-slash and then click with num-slash to get into the menus. For
>> a while the actions list was being weird and not appearing, I had to
>> restart Reaper a couple of times to import the keymap, but now f4 brings
>> it up, so that's fixed at least.
>> 
>> I'm pretty sure the new keymap is working correctly because I hit ctrl-t
>> and it inserted a new track and put up an edit field for me to type in
>> the name, and the track had that name, or at least, it read that name
>> and some values when I hit up and down arrow. Obviously I haven't messed
>> with it much, that's all I've done, though it did seem to save my
>> settings from installing it under 8.1 since it referenced my pro sound
>> card in the newly inserted track. I hope to begin working my way through
>> the manual this week, that's the recommended course of action to get
>> started right? I take it nobody's done any podcasts on OSARA? I know
>> somebody here did some on reaccess and I have those, e.g. on recording
>> midi, so I'll try checking those out as well, I assume the general ideas
>> will be helpful.
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