Pro Tools menus change color when using SoundFlow

Hi @John_Rammelt

There are 2 different issues here:

#1 - Menus go into accessibility mode

Before I installed SF, I could just click an Insert in the PT mixer and start typing and there available plugins instantly popped up, containing characters I wrote. Now I need to actually click 'search...' for that to work.

This is a kink of the way Pro Tools services apps that remote controls it.
We are working to eliminate this in the future so the menus won't have to change, but it's not entirely under our control.

There are some workarounds possible:

• Manually click the "search" menu item
• Use a SF shortcut to activate that search menu item

Read more here:
https://forum.soundflow.org/-429/how-to-work-around-the-pt-legacy-menu-not-supporting-tab-to-search

Unfortunately, SoundFlow cannot tell Pro Tools to switch to regular menus. It's controlled by Pro Tools, so we need to work with Avid to resolve this.

#2 - We don't always know when a user is typing text

SoundFlow by default has a bunch of shortcuts that don't have keyboard modifiers on them - that is, regular key strokes such as I, O, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... and so on.
This means, SoundFlow needs to detect when you're typing text (for example when renaming a track) and disable the shortcuts when you are. BUT unfortunately in some cases we cannot detect when you're typing text - for example when a text field in a plugin is focused.

The workarounds for this are:

• Manually bypass shortcuts when you need to type text inside a plugin (or the few other places where we also don't detect it properly)
• Disable shortcuts entirely that don't have modifiers. I, O, Q for example.

Hi @John_Rammelt,

We've finally gotten around to making a video...

Click here for more information about the Pro Tools Menus Issue and workarounds;

Hope that helps.