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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I've been using reaper 3.78 for the last 3 years
due to the ease of routing, and other related features of both that interface,
and the working reaaccess.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>However, I was told that the latest version of
reaper offers a sends/receives/hardware output dialog which one could tab
through.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The problem in reaper 4 which annoyed me was that
the sends/receives menu, normally accessed with shift+applications, no longer
worked, and that I didn't want to spend time messing with a screen reader if I
didn't have too.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Now, as I said, pressing I gives you a dialog which
I find to be very easy to use. Sure, in projects where lots of routing
exists, tabbing through the options for the master and each send could be
tedious, but muscle memory will prevail, taking care of that issue.
Furthermore, it is possible to type values in the majority of the fields
presented in this dialog.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I don't know if the reaper developers actively made
these changes for sake of accessibility, or if it was one of those accidental
things, but for those who are in contact with the developers, encourage them to
keep going in the direction they seem to be heading.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Now the only standing issues for me are a way of
editing automation, and the little semantic issue where the reaccess preferences
are in the item menu, which didn't exist in reaper 3.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I'm guessing a trip to the menu editor would
fix that problem, but I haven't played with that
extensively.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>