[Rwp] some thoughts for the keymap development and things and stuff

[Chris Belle]

Some times simple ways are better than overly complicating things.
I got the idea for several reaper portable folders from a guy on you tube.
and since these kinds of things are apt to change, writing a script 
every time is would be a pain.
But that's the beauty of reaper, it let's you work the way you want most 
of the time,
so if you're the programmer type you can wallow in that, and if you're a 
sort of high tech red neck like me, get the job done,
then why not?
Reaper is small enough,
that a few megs of
dir space isn't gonna matter.
I am slowly getting in to sws and I'll learn the fancier stuff
as I go, but a lot of my students will appreciate the easier ways of 
doing things, they aren't gonna write scripts just to change a sound 
card out-put 'grin'.
Which brings me to another thought.
We can easily change inputs to sound cards with sws, and with the track 
comtext menus, but out-puts are another matter.
Unless I missed something, there's not a way to do that with sws I don't 
think.
and reapers crazy self populating tendencies when you hover on a control 
like in the combo boxes to select out-puts sometimes is not your friend.
I want to be able to use my hardware out-puts
on the mackie onyx sometimes so I can route things different places, and 
this is easy to do in sonar.
But in reaper, if you want to do something other than send to the 
default master bus, it's a bit more tricky.
I wonder if there's anything
that can be done with Osara to more easily select hardware out-puts?


On 2/26/2016 7:59 AM, Juan Pablo Bello wrote:
> I was thinking we need a better way to structure things.. on keymaps.
> THere is just no way I am ever going to be able to use the numeric
> keypad on this laptop, because it just does not even have an emulation
> built in. Its just unacceptable, but that is theway it came I I think
> i am not alone on that department. Or, I would just have to buy and
> use a separate keyboard..
>
> And, nice going with the portable installs, I think that is just a bit
> unnecessary since you are able to create and automate reaper things..
> its better to have just created a script and automate reaper to select
> your audiod evices ETC when you first launch it... ETC because having
> several installs of the program I think is a bit convoluted at best.
>
> 2016-02-26 3:22 GMT-05:00, Patrick Perdue <patrick at pdaudio.net>:
>> Chris:
>>
>> Just so you know, control win anything is not viable in Windows 10.
>> Windows does a lot more now with, go figure...  the windows key.
>>
>>
>> On 2/26/2016 3:19 AM, Chris Belle wrote:
>>> There's been a lot of talk about how we are running out of room on the
>>> keymap.
>>> I've noticed some duplications, first we should weed those out.
>>> I also have some very useful actions that I use all the time, depending
>>> on what you do you may not want these but these are some of the one's I
>>> bind.
>>> Actions to move fx up and down in the chain.
>>> I bind those to control win up and down arrows.
>>>    I also like the one for turning markers to regions for exporting
>>> chunks of a long project, like audio books and such.
>>> control win m
>>> When you do that you can set your render options to export regions, very
>>> useful.
>>> I think reaper lends itself especially well to long spoken word and
>>> audio book type projects, and I often have a couple of portable copies
>>> or reaper rendering out long jobs while another reaper copy is doing
>>> something else.
>>> Hence my  reasons for loving portable reaper because each can live on
>>> the same machine,
>>> \with it's own config doing tasks while your doing something else with
>>> another instance.
>>> You can of course, instantiate a reaper instance  by just typing the
>>> path to the executable in the run box with the - newinst
>>> switch, but if you copy the folder to a new place with another name,
>>> you can have another configuration like for dummy audio for those
>>> rendering jobs,
>>> or another sound card for recording, and leave it like that.
>>> So I have reaper1, reaper2, and so on and so forth
>>> not always that complex, but it's nice to know I can do that if I need
>>> to.
>>> There you go, for what it's worth.
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