Rite now with osara, pan is alt and the left/rite arrow keys, track volume is control+shift and up/down arrows.
Do you happen to be on Mac? I ditched my mac for windows a month or two ago

Correction: control shift up and down apply to sws. If that plugin is not properly installed who knows what you might actually end up with.   Alt and the arrow keys will make fine adjustment to the selected track.  Adding the shift key would apply them to the master track regardless of what else may be selected.  This is of the greatest importance, since you can have a ton of tracks all outputting to the master track on which you can edit volumes across separately, but if you apply them to the master track you're going to end up with that volume on all of your tracks and that will be entirely reflected in your final mix/render.

You do not have to pay every year if you don't want if you own a pro tools perpetual license. I know people who stayed for years in pro tools 12... I have a perpetual license of pro tools, and turned updates off because the plan is too expensive, however if you have a perpetual license you can just turn updates off.

Thanks, I think I will be more flexible with Reaper, it doesn't take a minute to start and I think that it doesn't need so much pc power. Yes, I have a perpetual license of Pro Tools, so I'll be flexible with it. I may not update mac os later on, because then it all gets uncompatible and I had a situation with Pro Tools that I had to downgrade my system and I went with a wrong mac os version that had issues with my audio interface, so I'll better stay with my current mac os, if I choose to deal with pro Tools, which happens if I don't like Reaper.

Best regards

Steve

Thanks for the corrections, that's just what I have been doing, didn't know that it was a shortcut specifically to SWS. Although in my case at least, SWS is pretty essential.
Reaper with Osara is very accessible on the mac. Maybe there's some small differences I personally haven't found though. Aside from being able to search for parameters in plugins on the mac side while you're in the fx window, so you can kinda jump around the plugin. Don't think that's possible on Windows.

@10, what is Osara? Never heard of it.

can't imagine that was a real question haha.

Oh yes,
Some of the plugins have accessibility issues, hell most of pluggins have accessibility issues.
But, a bit of 6th sence, and NVDA skills, and it's OCR saves the day.

Agreed with @17.  Honestly, the biggest problem you're going to encounter using reaper is that it's so massive, thus remembering everything is almost entirely impossible.  If you do your best to build yourself something of a routine productivity workflow, however, and put it to constant use, you'll find that things become more and more straightforward and before you know it you're getting simple things done in a matter of seconds rather than minutes or even hours.Save your project settings as templates, make notes on what you're tweaking and what results you produced, save your effects chains, learn reaconsole for more ease and flexibility; it all pays off.

Anyone on here actually using control surfaces? Like the fader port?
Has anyone managed to figure out how to do presets where you can essentially control not only the main mixer, but instrument plugin parameters with the buttons and faders?
I could probably do this in my keylab mk2 but it has a main system that isn't very accessible.
Really would be cool to map my keyboard to do beats without putting my hands on the qwerty keyboard, probably impossible though.

@liam
God damn it, of course there is! Lol!
I'm losing my mind a little bit from being stuck in this house (no longer going back to dorms in fall), and I haven't been thinking as sharp as I usually do.
Thanks for that, DUDE!

Well I just liked how I was able to type in the first few letters and jump rite to that field with VO+F. Its not as obvious to do stuff like that on Windows