[Rwp] ditching ReAccess for good?

[Chris Belle]

Hey Rubens?

Send me a message when you get up, and I'll come over.


On 3/3/2015 3:32 PM, Chris Belle wrote:
> 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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