I am so glad I found this group. Kevin, I apologize for posting this question on your blog....I had not found this google group yet. This is exactly the problem I have been having....I have been almost banging my head against the desk trying to figure out how to get this to work. I also have some vision so I was playing around with selecting the actual waveforms which seemed to change the active track. I had even looked at that setting wondering whether or not I should change it. When I get home I am going to try this out. Also, I don't know if anyone has tried this but if you get a magic trackpad and enable the trackpad commander you can quickly jump to different parts of the window. I can use my finger to immediately jump to the upper left corner where the track list is or move my finger across the top of the pad to see all the different clusters that are available. In conjunction with the keyboard shortcuts I have found it very easy to jump around the UI, and you get a contextual idea of the layout of the screen too when dealing with sighted colleagues. Again, thank you very much for finding out this issue solution.
Gary Readfern-Gray wrote: > Great, thanks tim. > > On 7/15/11, Tim Burgess <tim...@raisedbar.net> wrote: > > OK, I'll do some more fiddling. I'm using V9, so that might be the > > difference. I have Omnisphere kicking around here on my PC rig, but haven't > > had time to install and try it on a Mac yet. Will report back as and when > > (grin). > > > > Best wishes. > > > > Tim Burgess > > Raised Bar Ltd > > Phone: +44 (0)1827 719822 > > > > Don't forget to vote for improved access to music and music technology at > > > > http://www.raisedbar.net/petition.htm > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > > Of Gary Readfern-Gray > > Sent: 15 July 2011 15:20 > > To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com > > Subject: Re: From joy to frustration - important tip > > > > Hi tim, well that's weird. > > > > Well, what happend for me was that I found that I was in the track list and > > regardless of the track I was on, even if I pressed vo space to select it, > > When I pressed shift m, for example, a seeming random track got muted and it > > was always that track, regardless of what I did with the keyboard focus > > buttons. > > > > I have some vision, so had been playing around with the selector tool and > > clicking on track ets. > > > > When I looked through the keyboard shortcuts manual, the shift +s m and r > > keys apply to the selected track. I'm not sure what Pro Tools classifies as > > being the selected track but here's what I noticed. > > > > When I uncheck link track and edit selection, If you click on a track, solo, > > mute and arming works for that track, however, if you select a different > > track by using vo in the track list, those keys will still apply to the > > previously selected track. > > > > If you select that menu option, When you select a different track in the > > track list, the insertion point moves to the newly selected track and the > > keys work correctly for that track. > > > > That's the long version of the polava I went through to get it working for > > me. I'm using the very first version that became accessible last June, so > > there may be a more recent update that works differently, but I'm glad we've > > both got it working. > > > > I was playing around with xpand 2 yesterday, that's very accessible as well, > > though not as good as Omnisphere which I really want to get, does anyone > > know if any of that is accessible with VO? > > > > Gazza > > > > On 7/15/11, Tim Burgess <tim...@raisedbar.net> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've finally had a chance to play with this. Slau's Command+Option+1 > >> made the difference for me. Enabling Link Track and Edit Selection > >> just meant that the Shift+Letter combinations would only be applied to > >> tracks that were actively selected. Unchecking this option allowed me to > > mute, solo, etc. > >> whatever track I was positioned on within the table, regardless of its > >> selection state. > >> > >> Best wishes. > >> > >> Tim Burgess > >> Raised Bar Ltd > >> Phone: +44 (0)1827 719822 > >> > >> Don't forget to vote for improved access to music and music technology > >> at > >> > >> http://www.raisedbar.net/petition.htm > >> > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On > >> Behalf Of Gary Readfern-Gray > >> Sent: 14 July 2011 00:36 > >> To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com > >> Subject: Re: From joy to frustration - important tip > >> > >> OK Guys I finally figured it out. Tim I think this will sort out your > >> problem. with the Shift + r M or s keys. > >> > >> To get these keys to work, you have to go to the options menu and > >> check the item labeled "Link track and edit selection" > >> > >> Enjoy. > >> > >> Gazza > >> > >> On 12 Jul 2011, at 21:28, Slau Halatyn wrote: > >> > >>> In the Digidesign folder, go to the Documentation folder, then into > >>> the > >> Pro Tools subfolder and you'll find a pdf document with all of the > >> keyboard shortcuts. Also, right in the Help menu you'll find the same > > document. > >>> > >>> To copy an entire section across all tracks, enable the "All" Group. > >>> Then > >> scrub anywhere in the song. Go to the beginning of your desired > >> section and then select the range, copy, move to the place you wish to > >> paste and press Command-v. Pro Tools will paste all the regions to their > > respective tracks. > >>> > >>> That's the short version of the story. Depending upon whether you're > >>> in > >> bars/beats or minutes:seconds, your needs might be a little different. > >> I'm not going to get into the minutiae without knowing precisely what > >> you're doing but that's the idea. Remember to turn off the All group > >> when you're done or else you might run into trouble. > >>> > >>> HTH, > >>> > >>> Slau > >>> > >>> On Jul 12, 2011, at 4:11 PM, Gary Readfern-Gray wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> Thanks so much all for the help. I didn't quite get to the bottom of > >>>> why > >> it wasn't working before now but it's working great now regardless it > >> seems of selecting or otherwise the keyboard focus buttons. maybe > >> because I've shut and reopend the session since I last tried. So, back > >> to joy again. I'm already more productive after 24 hours than I was in > >> Logic after about 9 months and being able to find and set my EQ > > paramaters, at long last!! > >>>> > >>>> So, at risk of becoming boring with my enthusiasm, Where can I get a > >>>> list > >> of shortcut keys for PT 8? I particularly want to be ableto select and > >> copy audio around. > >>>> > >>>> One question, is it possible accessibly to copy, let's say a verse > >>>> of a > >> song across all the tracks and paste it in the next verse along and > >> have all the music placed in the correct tracks? I never figgured out > >> how to do that in Sonar and doing that track by track gets very old, very > > quickly. > >>>> > >>>> P.S > >>>> > >>>> Kevin, I also have Superior drummer, so if there's anything I can > >>>> help > >> with on a preset front, just mail me, though of course, I'm still new to > > PT. > >>>> > >>>> Gazza, > >>>> On 12 Jul 2011, at 19:38, Tim Burgess wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Hey Slau, > >>>>> > >>>>> I think you've stopped me going crazy - I was also having problems > >>>>> with the > >>>>> Shift+Letter combinations in the Mix window. I'll give this a try > >>>>> Shift+and see > >>>>> if I can do the mute, solo and arm functions now. > >>>>> > >>>>> Best wishes. > >>>>> > >>>>> Tim Burgess > >>>>> Raised Bar Ltd > >>>>> Phone: +44 (0)1827 719822 > >>>>> > >>>>> Don't forget to vote for improved access to music and music > >>>>> technology at > >>>>> > >>>>> http://www.raisedbar.net/petition.htm > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> -----Original Message----- > >>>>> From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] > >>>>> On Behalf Of Slau Halatyn > >>>>> Sent: 12 July 2011 13:06 > >>>>> To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com > >>>>> Subject: Re: From joy to frustration! > >>>>> > >>>>> Hi Gazza, > >>>>> > >>>>> Use Command-Option-1 to use Commands focus mode. There are two > >>>>> other modes which are, if I remember correctly, Audio Regions and > >>>>> Groups focus mode and they are Command-Option-2 and > >>>>> Command-Option-3 respectively. There's also a keyboard focus button > >>>>> right in the window but, if the tracks list isn't displayed, you > >>>>> can't access that button. what Kevin mentioned about the Mix window > >>>>> display buttons should help you get it to be visible. I think > >>>>> there's also a > >> menu item to display the tracks list. > >>>>> > >>>>> HTH, > >>>>> > >>>>> Slau > >>>>> > >>>>> On Jul 12, 2011, at 3:49 AM, Gary Readfern-Gray wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> Hi Listers, > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Well, I bought a mac about a year ago because I wanted to start > >>>>>> using Pro > >>>>> Tools, but when the accessible version finally arrived, I found > >>>>> getting around a session so clunky and horrible to use, I bought > >>>>> Logic and have been using that, I have a little sight so I was > >>>>> stumbling > >> along with it. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Then, after months and months of using Logic, I come across > >>>>>> Keven's > >>>>> tutorial and discover that, once you've got more than one track in > >>>>> the session, the track list is usable by VO and that's what I > >>>>> wanted to do initally, quickly find a track, mute, solo and arm. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> However, whilst I can select the tracks in the track list, Shift m > >>>>>> r and s > >>>>> are not working for me regardless of what I seem to try. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> So I googled around and found that this seems to have something to > >>>>>> do with > >>>>> keyboard focus mode? I'm using PT 8.4 by the way, and these keys > >>>>> apparently are available in 8.4? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> So, How, in the name of sanity, do I get that functionality to > >>>>>> work where > >>>>> I can sit in the track list and mute, solo and arm and unarm? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> My other question is, How do I get the track list to be displayed > >>>>>> in the > >>>>> mix window? PT is only letting me cursor over there if I'm in the > >>>>> edit window but Kevin seemed to be able to get there whilst in the > >>>>> mix > >> window? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Finally, for now, what's the quickest way to get to the track list? > >>>>>> I'm > >>>>> often using vo i to bring up the items list and typing table to > >>>>> filter the list and selecting track list table, however if you've > >>>>> got a gazillion tracks in your session, it takes a while for the > >>>>> itme list to pop up. Any thoughts on that one? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Thanks > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Gazza > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > > > >
