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

[Jim Snowbarger]

Oh sure, true of course,  old dogs, and new, but equivalent tricks.  
It takes a while to retrain, and a bit of patience.  After a month or two of
annoyance, you soon get over it.  Hopefully, it was all for a good cause.
But, ergonomically, commonly pressed key strokes are not good candidates for
modifiers.  In my mind, that most critically pertains to arm and unarm.
Mute and solo are much less common for me.
But, what would be bad, are changes that would cause an old, innocuous
action, to translate to a new and more dramatic action.   That used to be
the solo command.  But, now, in the new world, it means delete all tracks
and reformat your hard drive.  Sorry about that.  Have a nice day.

  
 

-----Original Message-----
From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Scott
Chesworth via RWP
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 6:13 PM
To: Reapers Without Peepers
Subject: Re: [Rwp] [RWP] OSARA, an open-source ReaAccess replacement in
development

Fair point. I wouldn't go so far as to say that the whole key map was well
thought out, actually it's a bit of a mess in places. Think what's occurring
here in part is a case of old dogs and new tricks.
Myself included.

> On 3 Feb 2015, at 23:17, James Teh via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>
> Anyway, I didn't mean to start a debate on what is "best"; everyone has
their preferences. My point is that if even I (as the primary author) am
using something different to the ReaAccess key map, I'd be very reluctant to
include a ReaAccess based key map as the default. At the very least, that
key map is harder to learn initially. This is why I haven't included a key
map at all at this point. Perhaps we could include a ReaAccess key map as an
option, but I'm reluctant to make it a "default".
>
> Jamie
>
>> On 4/02/2015 7:19 AM, Scott Chesworth via RWP wrote:
>> 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.
>
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