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

Fri Feb 26 13:42:04 EST 2016

Yeh, it's funny about that stuff, and what we get used to.
I'm kind of just the opposite on the IPad,
I thought I'd really want a bluetooth keyboard, but with the short time 
I've spent on iOS,
I've become quite comfortable flipping and swiping my way around and 
typing on a virtual keyboard.
I wouldn't want to write
my memoirs
on it 'grin', but hey, for modest data entry it's not so bad.
But getting back to reaper,
I wonder if there's a way to make it distinguish between different 
keyboards as separate devices.
Probably not,
but if it could, then that's a big possibility for a whole other layer 
of action bindings.

On 2/26/2016 10:30 AM, Patrick Perdue wrote:
> 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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