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

Fri Feb 26 13:49:14 EST 2016

Sighted people have access to different screensets, which presumably 
allow them to use Reaper in multiple visual configurations. what we 
really need are keyboard sets, which would allow multiple shortcut key 
bindings for different scenarioes. We could start a thread on the 
feature requests forum asking for it, pointing out the benefits to 
sighted people and supporting one another in the request,

Justin

On 26/02/2016 18:42, Chris Belle wrote:
> 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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