[Rwp] Control Surfaces: I'm about ready to pull my hair out!

[Scott Chesworth]

Hurrah, glad it worked man.

There are some articles up on the Cavi wiki yeah. Justin does a killer
job of writing those, but I don't believe he has a surface. It's
something that'll likely get a mention in the OSARA training material
though. That doesn't exist yet, but we're getting close to the dreaded
time when I'll have to buckle down and create such a thing.

Scott

On 2/16/16, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgilland07 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Scott?
>
> You! my friend, are a genious!  That worked absolutely perfectly!  Who would
>
> ever have known about those in and outs!  This is exactly why I'm so honored
>
> to be on this list.  Things like this, I  never would have figured out
> without your help.
>
> Are there any blind resources online out there, like wiki's etc. where
> someone on the list here could update them to reflect this info about the IO
>
> needing to be set with your screen review?
>
> Now that I did that, it's working perfectly.
>
> Chris.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Chesworth" <scottchesworth at gmail.com>
> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 5:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rwp] Control Surfaces: I'm about ready to pull my hair out!
>
>
>> Hey Chris,
>>
>> There's a step in setting up control surfaces when using Reaper in
>> Windows that's not intuitive. I haven't read Oreo's instructions on
>> the Reaper Access site, but seeing as he's on Mac, he might not have
>> known that there's an extra bit of jiggery-pokery Windows users have
>> to perform.
>>
>> In Preferences, navigate down the tree until you get to Control
>> Surfaces (it's second from last at the time of writing). If you were
>> adding a surface for the first time, you'd want to tab until you reach
>> the Add button. Seeing as you've already started setting yours up, you
>> could choose it from the first combo box and hit tab until you reach
>> the edit button. In this new window, you'll need to select your
>> surface protocol (which I'm betting you've already done). Then, here's
>> the part that's a bit tricky. Before you hit the ok button, you'll
>> need to use your screen readers virtual cursor, because there are two
>> important bits of configuration that need to be taken care of that
>> don't appear in the tab order. How these are presented changes
>> depending on which screen reader you're using, but if you poke around
>> in that window you'll find two controls which allow you to choose the
>> input and output ports of the surface you're adding. Seeing as we're
>> using virtual cursor, you'll need to choose your ports using whatever
>> the command to simulate a left click is with your screen reader. Once
>> you set both of those ports, hit ok, and you'll be back in the
>> Preferences window. One more ok out of that, and you should be good to
>> go.
>>
>> Remember that if you get an error about Reaper not being able to
>> communicate with the surface or similar, the first thing to check in
>> your case will be that you've gone back into Preferences and disabled
>> the surface under MIDI Devices.
>>
>> Hth, let us know how you get on.
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> On 2/16/16, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgilland07 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Actually, neither is working, even when both done together, I'm not
>>> getting
>>> any error, or anything.  It just flat out won't work.
>>>
>>> Chris.
>>>
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