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HF On 3/14/11, Slau Halatyn <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
