[Rwp] ditching ReAccess for good?

[Chris Belle]

When I was messin about with some gnome and orca based stuff, I was 
messing with audacity a little bit.

Pretty primitive
compared to sonar,
now if you're an audio guy primarily, reaper is sweet, but if you love 
midi, then reaper I don't think is quite there yet.

It's getting better though,
and now I am a fully licensed member of the reaper
gang, i've screwed around with it enough so I just bought it.
I'll say one thing, they sure make it easy to license.

I love the we're gonna trust our customers atitude too,
I mean 60 bucks is chump change.
So
we shall see what the future brings.


On 3/3/2015 2:33 PM, Rusty Perez via RWP wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> I used NAMA a command-line based multi-track recorder with some
> editing and effects features.
> It is built on a very robust audio engine, but the interface is,
> primarily, command-line based. You must enter commands at each step of
> the process.
> they've begun to implement a key command interface but it was in its
> infancy when I last tried it.
> Now, admittedly I last used it, ummm, fall of 2013 I believe.
> For what it's worth, I got some relatively respectable results,
> considdering I had NEVER recorded and mixed my own album in the past.
>
> there are all kinds of work-arounds and outboard applications which
> must be used for midi, and, though there are some ways to use midi
> compatible control surfaces the process is by no means very
> transparent.
> I was able to use a foot pedal to start and stop recording and rewind ETC.
>
> I don't want to denigrate the project. It let me record my music, and
> there are some for whom it is really easy to use. Part of that is
> fueled by an anti-windows mentality.
>
> anyway, I think reaper will be my DAW of choice just because it's a
> bit more straight forward and easier for this musician to understand.
> :)
>
> Rusty
>
>
> On 3/3/15, Chris Belle via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>> Hi Rusty, this is Chris Belle.
>>
>> Good to see you over here.
>>
>> I'm slowly becoming a reaper guy, having been so solidly rooted in sonar
>> land for so long, it's surely a different way of doing things, but some
>> things I like better, and some things I hate.
>>
>> But it'll be another useful tool to add, you don't necessarily have to
>> pick one or the other, I'm curious about which linux option you found to
>> be useful as I have played some with linux distros, and the new ones are
>> pretty amazing with what you can do right out of the gate.
>>
>> For the ordinary human that is.
>>
>> Because reaccess is abandon ware,
>> and there's no way to fix the bugs in it, or make it work better with
>> newer versions of reaper, I think that osara is the future,
>> and I have a lot of confidence in Jamie, who has done work for me before,
>> and I love NVDA anyway, so it's a win, win situation.
>>
>> yes, there were some things I liked about how reaccess did things,
>> the training mode, and some things voiced better, but it's early days
>> for osara, and I think especially if we cough up donations and keep
>> Jamie busy, he'll improve it for us, and since it's open source, anyone
>> can grab the source code and improve it.
>>
>> So that's another win, win situation.
>>
>> Since reaccess will never be developed any more, you're stuck with what
>> it is, so if it does everything you want, fine, but if you want anything
>> else, then I say out with the old, and in with the new.
>>
>> I'm not necessarily
>> a guy who always goes for the latest and greatest,
>> I'm a firm believer in if it ain't broke, don't fix it, but there comes
>> a time when you have to change the tires or slide off the street 'grin'.
>> So, act accordingly to your needs.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/3/2015 12:32 PM, Rusty Perez via RWP wrote:
>>> Hi guys,
>>> Well, I'm diving in to Reaper.
>>> Just for background. I recorded a solo holiday project two years ago
>>> using an accessible multi-track recorder on Linux. while I love the
>>> idea of the freedom and availability of accessible software on Linux,
>>> it is clear that Reaper offers many more readily available features
>>> and it's a lot more accessible to the less technical--like myself--in
>>> more ways than just blind accessible. No disrespect meant in the least
>>> to the application I used before. I just think I can be more
>>> productive using Reaper.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have Reaper and reaccess which I installed last year.
>>> Is there ANY REASON to keep Reaccess on my system, or should I just
>>> ditch it and run with OSARA?
>>>
>>> thanks!
>>> Rusty
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