Keyboard Maestro Engine consumes only about 60mb, so it shouldn't hardly
impact your memory.
You can check in your activity monitor.
Go to Applications, Utilities, Activity monitor
Then choose memory view tab from toolbar.
From there you can also find out what's hogging your memory.
Chi
On 4/22/2020 6:38 AM, Toby Davey wrote:
Hi Slau,
Thought it would be easier writing an email rather than a long voice
message in the WatsApp group.
One first quick question - Does Flo Tools with KM eat up a bit of
memory when they are running alongside PT as my MacBook Pro only has
8GB of Ram?
I had some strange things happening last night when trying to see what
was going on with FT, KM and PT, I had some alerts about low memory
pop up a few times and I closed all programmes apart from PT, KM and
EU that was running in the background, did a couple of re boots of my
MacBook which did seem to stop the low memory alerts popping up.
When I did launch PT and when FT kicked in I did get an audio alerts
to say that ‘I needed to check that in VO utilities that the tick box
had to be ticked to allow VO to access programmes on my Mac’, very
strange as I have never unticked this tick box in VO.
I checked to see if any system alerts were running as you suggested
but nothing apart from one for ‘Applications running in KM. Which I
don’t think is actually a pop up just something that is running in the
background.
Had another go with PT and FT in the Edit window but still could not
get it to work.
Decided to leave it for the night and sleep on it and have another go
this morning.
So this morning started again, booting up my MacBook, etc.
Still not able to get FT to work in the Edit window.
Decided to launch the FT installer again just in case something was
missing from the install. The install launched all OK. When
Launching PT again, I had a FT audio alert about the VO tick box again
for allowing VO to access programmes on my Mac, went into VO
utilities, tick box as usual was ticked to allow VO to access
programmes on my Mac, decided to un tick it and then re tick it just
in case.
When I got into PT I went through the same procedure that you did in
your audio demo. In your demo it sounded like when you were on the
level metre before activating FT inspector that the level was read out
automatically when you were playing the track. I did not initially
get any level metre reading out with VO, but when I used VO and the
arrow keys VO did read out the levels, not sure if that was what you
were doing or whether the levels were being read out automatically
when you were on the level metre.
Stopped interacting with the track, turned the inspector on and did
the same as you did in your demo but still no FT read out when
inspector was on and pressing ‘L’.
So I decided to go into the Mix window to check to see if FT was
reading out the level metres in the Mix window and yes all seemed to
be fine in the Mix window like before.
Now this is the strange bit as when I went back into the Edit window
and did as before I was now able to get FT to read out the level metre
readings with inspector on and pressing ‘L’, etc.
I then decided to exit out of PT shut down my MacBook and re boot and
try this all again to see if wen I am in PT and first go to the Mix
window and then into the Edit window will FT work again.
Yep and surprise, surprise it did work again but only in the Edit
window if i go into the Mix window first and then back into the Edit
window.
All very strange!
I did notice in your demo that when you went from the bottom of the
Edit window and did a read to the left that you went straight from the
50 to the ’track list show / hide’ button and currently in the Edit
window of PT on my MacBook I go from 50 and then there are buttons for
’show / hide clip list’, ’show / hide docked midi editor’ and then
’show / hide track list’, not sure if this has any affect on the issue.
Not totally sure if or how to remove those extra buttons and whether
they might be affecting things but might be worth me having a look.
not sure if it might be a memory / processor issue but I would have
not thought that FT would be using up quite so much processor / memory
just to read out the metre levels but maybe with having KM running it
is using more processor and memory when performing tasks but the Mix /
Edit window thing as above would rule that out maybe.
Cheers
Toby
On 21 Apr 2020, at 14:23, Slau Halatyn <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Toby,
Actually, even in the minimal view, the level meter will be there. I
left a message on the PT WhatsApp group demonstrating exactly how it
should work for you. Hope that helps. Let me know if you get it to work.
Cheers,
Slau
On Apr 21, 2020, at 7:23 AM, Toby Davey <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Slau,
As usual thanks so much for your words of wisdom. I did listen to
your demo of the edit window and fully get that VO is seeing things
that arn’t in the window.
This might sound stupid but how do I get to see the actual level
metres in the edit view window.
I have checked all the things I think need to be checked when going
to the view menu and going down to edit view. I can interact with
the tracks in the edit view window and can see that the words level
metre are there just above comments and if I interact with the audio
i/o I can see more info and click on the output window and of course
I get more info there.
The track heights are all set to medium too.
Maybe I am missing something in the edit window.
Best and thanks
Toby
On 21 Apr 2020, at 00:24, Slau Halatyn <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Toby,
Thanks for the message and kind words. Glad to hear you're putting
Flo Tools to use.
Regarding the Inspector, it does actually work in the Edit window
as well. As long as the track heights are Medium, you can use the
same commands. The thing is, of course, you have to be focused on a
track just like in the Mix window. Of course, the track orientation
is up and down rather than left to right and it's not as easy to
quickly get to the vertical orientation of the visible tracks. To
further add a caveat, VoiceOver will not see any level meter within
a track unless 1) the Edit window view is set to show meters and 2)
the tracks are visible within the timeline portion of the Edit
window. As you may recall, VoiceOver sees things that are not
necessarily visible to sighted users. Things can easily be scrolled
off screen in either direction. When that is the case, VoiceOver
can navigate to the off-screen track but, since it's technically
off screen, Pro Tools doesn't generate any real-time level
information. It would sort of be a waste of graphics resources. If
you look in the Drop Box folder, I did a quick demo for Ramy
regarding tracks navigation in the Edit window. Have a listen to
that and it'll illustrate some of the navigational quirks. I didn't
touch upon Flo Tools there but it's more about the overall
navigation and how to tell if something's visible or not.
Hope that helps,
Slau
On Apr 20, 2020, at 6:23 PM, Toby Davey <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,
Thanks to all involved in putting Flo Tools together a fantastic
bit of software making life a bit easier for all us visually
impaired Pro Tools users.
I have only recently installed Flo Tools as I was waiting for the
upgrade to Pro Tools 2020.3 to become available here in the UK in
my Avid Link and then waited a bit for Flo Tools 2020.3.1 to come
out too. I have listened to Slau’s great audio introduction to
Flo Tools and read through the ReadMe notes before installing and
also have been keeping an eye on all the emails and WhatsApp
messages about Flo Tools too.
So now to my observations on Flo Tools.
Firstly, this might be me, might be due to my Mac but am I right
in thinking that the Inspector group commands such as ‘L’, ‘V’,
‘m’ etc only work in the Mix window? In the Edit window I can do
things like double tapp ‘L’ to turn level metering on and off but
don’t get any feedback of the levels unless I am in the Mix
window, likewise with volume, etc.
When installing I made sure that all the settings for VoiceOver,
Pro Tools, Keyboard Maestro and even switching the keyboard to US
were done per the instructions in the ReadMe pages.
All the Flo Tools short cuts work as should be and the inspector
group commands work as mentioned above in the Mix window.
So did I miss something in the ReadMe or the great audio
introduction to Flo Tools as I spent quite a lot of time today
trying to work out why the inspector group commands were not
working in the Edit window, going through old PTAccess Group
emails, etc.
As I say a great piece of software and thanks again for all those
involved in Flo Tools.
Cheers
Toby
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