On 3/15/11, Herman Fermin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I remember reading this and thought I saved it. I'm saving it now.
>
> Thank you
>
> 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
>>
>>
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