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

[Patrick Perdue]

I have an old Dell laptop from 2009 that I have upgraded a bit. It's a 
core2 duo T9600. I stuck 8GB of ram, a 240GB SSD and an 802.11AC 
wireless card in it, all of which I had lying around, believe it or not, 
and it runs pretty good as a casual stuff machine. It even has a 
firewire controller if I need that. That one has a virtual numpad, but 
my main laptop doesn't.

Given that I've been primarily using laptops or Mac desktops for the 
past few years, it's kind of strange to see a full desktop keyboard.

I'm all like "Oh, right... that extra bunch of keys over there... Forgot 
about those..."

On 2/26/2016 11:14 AM, Chris Belle wrote:
> Ah, I'm the neanderthal here, I just insist on an old style keyboard,
> even when using a laptop, I found out long time ago it was just too much
> of a pain to deal with the limitations of not having those extra keys,
> and I have a couple of USB numeric key pad thingies
> which are a good compromise when I just can't haul around a keyboard.
>
>
> On 2/26/2016 8:20 AM, Patrick Perdue wrote:
>> Yep. No numpad either, so I have mapped a bunch of the most common
>> numpad things I use to other keys that would probably not make much
>> sense to anyone but me.
>>
>> On 2/26/2016 8:59 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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