[Rwp] Focusing problems with reaper and Osara

[James Teh]

I don't think REAPER allows you to insert a stretch marker at the start 
of an item. If you want to move the start, you'd move the item start 
itself and then stretch as needed within the item. Stretch markers work 
*within* an item, not outside of it.

Jamie

On 28/11/2015 10:13 PM, Tor Tollhag wrote:
> It's hard to know how to tell it to other people developing Reaper
> that I have this problem cause most people that can see don't use
> these special scripts, so not sure exactly what breaks.
> Another interesting problem I also had a few Days ago was when I had a
> Project with an item that started at the beginning of the Project.
> For some reason I couldn't add a stretch marker there. Or if it was
> added it didn't show.
> So what I did to work around that was to scrub to about 1% after the
> Project start, add a stretch marker there and then I simply moved it
> to the beginning.
> Oh well we need to experiment more with this and figure out the best
> ways to work around these problems for now.
>
>
>
> 2015-11-28 12:59 GMT+01:00, James Teh <jamie at nvaccess.org>:
>> OSARA just asks REAPER to find stretch markers at the cursor position,
>> so more likely, it breaks the REAPER API in some way. I do have this
>> feeling REAPER is keeping track of stretch marker times and not updating
>> them correctly. I can't be 100% sure there isn't a bug in OSARA, but I
>> have a nasty suspicion this is a REAPER bug, in which case whether or
>> not it gets fixed is anyone's guess. :)
>>
>> Jamie
>>
>> On 28/11/2015 8:51 PM, Tor Tollhag wrote:
>>> Hi there. Well I just figured something out.
>>> It seems to lose focus on stretch markers if I put the Project
>>> timebase to beats position length rate, and change the Project bpm
>>> Before I do anything else.
>>> The default settings is to have the timebase at time since I sometimes
>>> try to do dj mixes in reaper, so I load an audio file in, get the bpm
>>> right and then I switch the timebase so I can then change the Project
>>> bpm.
>>> I'll experiment some more with this but I wonder if the fact that the
>>> bpm with the length and rate of an item Changes effects Osara in some
>>> way so it can't see stretch markers correctly?
>>>
>>>
>>> 2015-11-28 2:23 GMT+01:00, James Teh <jamie at nvaccess.org>:
>>>> I've seen cases where REAPER doesn't seem to fetch stretch markers
>>>> correctly. I haven't seen item issues though.
>>>>
>>>> Regarding the item issue, note that the item navigation commands will
>>>> only
>>>> move in the correct direction; they never wrap. So, if there's only one
>>>> item
>>>> on the track and it starts before the cursor, going next won't move
>>>> there.
>>>> This is probably obvious, but I mention it because ReaAccess confusingly
>>>> did
>>>> wrap back on itself in certain cases.
>>>>
>>>> In order to have any chance of diagnosing this, I need to be able to
>>>> reproduce it, which means I need clear steps or a project it is
>>>> occurring
>>>> with. I realise that's not easy to achieve in some cases, but that's
>>>> unfortunately what is needed.
>>>>
>>>> Sent from a mobile device
>>>>
>>>>> On 28 Nov 2015, at 7:40 AM, Tor Tollhag <tortollhag at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi.
>>>>> It's a bit late but today I've started to have some serious problems
>>>>> with reaper. It could have to do with Osara I'm not sure but here's
>>>>> the problems.
>>>>> Early today at work I was messing with stretch and tempo markers and
>>>>> Everything worked fine.
>>>>> Then I had a recording session with some people, and here's where the
>>>>> problems started.
>>>>> I had 8 tracks in the Project and added a 9th one.
>>>>> I recorded on it but the guy playing messed up so I had to go and
>>>>> remove that item and start over.
>>>>> The problem was even though I was on the right track, suddenly when I
>>>>> pressed Control Arrow keys reaper couldn't focus on the item, it's
>>>>> like if it weren't there.
>>>>> In the end I had to remove the track, add it again, record again and
>>>>> this time it worked.
>>>>> Later on I'm having another problem now using stretch markers.
>>>>> I add a marker with Control M, I know it's there cause when I move
>>>>> with the other hotkeys reaper moves to the posisions where the stretch
>>>>> markers are.
>>>>> However Osara doesn't announce that there's a stretch marker there
>>>>> even though I know I added them.
>>>>> This also means that I can't move the stretch markers, cause even
>>>>> though it goes to where they are, Osara suddenly Thinks that there's
>>>>> no markers there.
>>>>> I've tried this with both Jaws and Nvda, even restarting my laptop,
>>>>> and still I get this same problem.
>>>>> Would like to get some help here.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Tor
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