[audacity4blind] Re: hardware playthrough
- From: Gale Andrews <gale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:50:04 -0800 (PST)
Hi Brad,
I am amazed that Hardware Playthrough works for you. We have
come close to removing it many times because it almost never
works.
For that reason, it isn't in the Transport Menu and so you cannot
add a shortcut for it, unfortunately.
Gale
| From Brad Erhardt <brad.erhardt@xxxxxxxxx>
| Tue, 14 Jan 2014 22:48:42 -0800
| Subject: hardware playthrough
> Hi Gale, actually it was the hardware playthrough that I got to work.
> The only thing was that I couldn't activate this by the transport menu.
> I had to go into preferances and under recording specify that I wanted
> that checkbox checked for hardware playthrough. This works well, but I
> don't know how to add a command into audacity to togle this via a
> keystroke. I appreciate your feedback on setting keystrokes for existing
> commands, and this I have looked into, but to add a totally new command
> is something that I have never done, and I am curious to know if this is
> possible. THus it would be nice to do IE Add new command, Turn hardware
> playthrough on or off, then add a keystroke to activate it. Otherwise,
> my only other option is to constantly pop in an out of preferences to
> toggle this manually. Mind you though, it is a handy feature and I may
> decide to just leave it on :-). Thanks,
> On 2014-01-12, at 4:16 PM, Gale Andrews wrote:
>
> >
> > | From Brad Erhardt <brad.erhardt@xxxxxxxxx>
> > | Sat, 11 Jan 2014 07:52:04 -0800
> > | Subject: [audacity4blind] hardware playthrough
> >> Hello everyone, I recently discovered the feature of hardware
> >> play through. I have a Blue Nessi microphone which has a headset jack
> >> included. So when I record sometimes I plug the headset into this
> >> microphone, but I didn't find it as useful until I discovered this
> >> option. When this is on, and my headset is connected, I can here
> >> myself recording on the fly.
> >
> > Hi Brad,
> >
> > Do you mean Audacity's Hardware Playthrough for Mac computers?
> >
> > You're the first person in years I've heard about that got it to work,
> > but are you sure you did not enable software playthrough?
> >
> >
> >> My question is does anyone know if it is possible to add your own
> >> items to the keyboard shortcuts tab of audacity's settings. I would
> >> like to have a command to turn this feature off or on. The only way
> >> I know of doing this now is going into settings and under recording
> >> changing it there.
> >
> > Assuming you are using 2.0.5, you'll have to open Preferences, move
> > down the list into "Keyboard" then TAB into the "Category" drop-down.
> >
> > Choose "Transport" in that drop-down menu.
> >
> > TAB then DOWN arrow into the list for Transport. I don't use screen
> > readers so I don't know what commands JAWS or Voiceover have
> > that you could use instead.
> >
> > Navigate down the list to the playthrough item you want.
> >
> > TAB then press the shortcut combination you want to use
> > for the playthrough item.
> >
> > TAB into the "Set" button then press SPACE to set the
> > shortcut.
> >
> > TAB to OK, or however you usually confirm Preferences changes.
> >
> >
> >
> > Gale
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/keyboard_preferences.html#change
> >
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> Brad Erhardt
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>
>
>
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