[Rwp] [RWP] OSARA, an open-source ReaAccess replacement in development

[Scott Chesworth]

I have alien length fingers, so this might not work for everyone, but
I've found non-separated F keys a lot easier since I started treating
them as an extra row rather than counting along them. The experience
is a little different from laptop to laptop, but with a wee bit of
practice to get the muscle memory locked in I can comfortably hit
mute, solo, arm, phase etc without leaving the touch typing position
or counting. This is coming from someone who fought pretty hard
against those keys being used for those functions in the first place,
so I guess you could say I'm converted now.


On 2/3/15, James Teh via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> On 3/02/2015 10:43 PM, Patrick Perdue via RWP wrote:
>> I very much like having single-key access to mute, solo, phase, track
>> arm, etc. especially on a laptop, where I do most of my work these days.
> I agree that single key access is ideal. My problem is the function
> keys. On many laptops (including the one I use), the function keys
> aren't separated at any point, so you have to count them if you want to
> hit a particular key.
>
>> I sort of look at it as if it were a mixing console. You don't have to
>> press several buttons to mute or solo a single channel on a physical
>> board...
> Totally agree. But you also don't have to count potentially 13 keys to
> manage it and the buttons are arranged more optimally for mixing.
>
> Jamie
>
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