Herman, Here's something you missed in February:
Original message from Slau: I remember reading something about a new method for assigning sends to outputs or busses and having the option of quickly naming them on the fly. Well, I put that in the back of my mind and finally had a chance to try it. Well, it's a fantastic feature in Pro Tools 9 that wasn't available before. It's really good news for blind users. Whereas, in the past, one had to assign a send to a bus, create an Aux input, assign its input to receive from the same bus as the original track feeding the bus, etc., now it's all done in essentially one step. Even better, the issue of the Busses table not being accessible to name with VoiceOver is not such a huge issue because, within the dialog for the buss assignment, one can name the track and bus at the same time. So, for example, let's say you have 8 drum tracks you wish to send to an auxiliary input with a reverb plugin on it. You'd go to the first send and bring up the menu, moving down past the bus submenu to the option that says "New Track…" You're then put into a dialog similar to the one where you normally create tracks. Here, however, you can name the Aux Input whatever you'd like. So, let's say you call it Drumverb. Once you create the track, the sends are automatically assigned to the first available bus and the Aux input receives from that same bus and, coincidentally, the bus itself is named after the Aux Input. So, from there on in, if you want to assign another track to the same bus, you can just use first letter navigation and press d and VoiceOver will jump right to the Drumberb bus, that is, unless you've named a different bus alphabetically before the word "drum." Anyway, this is really great and one of the fairly important things I was concerned about regarding the accessibility of busses. Technically, I believe one could also name output paths in the same manner. Very cool. Slau On Mar 14, 2011, at 7:11 PM, Herman Fermin wrote: > It might be helpful to sometimes name busses and I understand that you > are suppose to do that in PT 9. How can we do that? > > HF
