Well, I finally took the plunge and downloaded Reaper. Listening to posts in the music thread and thinking, hmm, wonder if I can do anything like what I’m hearing or perhaps something much different. For now, the answer is no. I’m slogging through the over 400 pages of the Up and Running manual and so far, I can’t see any useful way for a blind person to use this thing. I tried recording something and I couldn’t even figure out how to arm a track. So, after my sixty-day trial, or perhaps before then, I’ll be deleting this program, resigned to the fact that I can’t use Reaper, QWS, or any program that requires smarts of any kind. I will stick to doing simple audio editing and whatever else I can do besides that.
In other, unrelated news, this old computer now has the sluggish typing bug plaguing other users of Elten. Thanks, technology, for being so wonderful to me, *drips withsarcasm*.
I’m back on my Lenovo computer too, which had been sent off for repair, under warranty thank goodness.
Oh cool, congrats on your new keyboard 🙂
Oh, I know one can edit while recording, so I think we’re talking about the same thing, or roughly so.
I’m typing on my new keyboard by the way, yay!
I’m not sure if the thing I’m explaining is called immediate feedback since you have to stop recording to move through the recorded item.
Some people can edit using GoldWave and such, but I rely too much on the default pixels in Studio Recorder. Immediate feedback is the way to go. I’m glad to see someone else agrees with me.
Yeah, wasapi works and you can rewind the audio by the arrows, but it’s rather slow. There’s definitely a shortcut to zoom out of the audio waveform, that enables moving by larger chunks. Still it’s not so effective way to edit that way.
Not that its important but I’m recording with WSAPI, not wave out.
Okay, selected wave out and that seems to work, and got it recording in stereo. I wonder if I’ll be able to edit in Reaper. I’m so used to Studio Recorder’s immediate audio feedback when I move the left and right arrows. What a relief, though, to finally be able to record stereo audio.
Thanks, I’ll try this once I get a keyboard with a working down arrow key. All this assumes I can actually discern what I’m to do. I mistakenly selected ASIO and I don’t have an ASIO device, so that’s why I need a down arrow key, so I can fix my stupid mistake.
f12 enablesshortcut help, you can press any key and hear what it is doing.
To get stereo:
1. press shift f10 on the track
2. search for input, stereo
3. right arrow and then Input 1 / Input 2
Probably my last update about Reaper. I found the record button quite by accident, so now I can happily, not, record in mono.
Osara and SWS have both been installed. Now, though, I have no idea how to start my mono recording, still can’t make it stereo. Progress, I guess.
Thanks, I’ll give these a look.
Hi, before giving up, check out this site:
https://reaperaccessibility.com
I’ll link some articles from there that might be useful:
https://reaperaccessibility.com/index.php/Special:MyLanguage/Getting_Started
https://reaperaccessibility.com/index.php/Special:MyLanguage/Keyboard_Shortcuts
Btw, after the license expires, you still will be able to use the program without any limitations, though it’s gonna throw a warning every time you open it.
$60 isn’t bad for a private license that I know I’d qualify to get, but it just isn’t proving to be usable to me.
Just an update. Yesterday, after posting this blog entry, I did figure out how to get a track to arm automatically. I don’t know if it disarms when I stop recording but yeah. It’s a mono track and there’s no way that I can see to make it stereo. I’m so ready to go back to Studio Recorder.