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I'm JennyKay and I will walk you through downloading and installing REAPER, OSARA and SWS on your Mac running VoiceOver. 
If you are on Windows, our friend Scott will take you through that process in a different tutorial. 
If all that sounded like a lot, then yeah, it can be. But don't worry, we'll take it step by step. All I want to do is get you up and running without too much fuss. 
If you're still very new to VoiceOver, when I say VO, that means I'm using the VoiceOver modifier keys. By default those are Control and Option held down together. If you've already tweaked your VoiceOver settings, you might be using Caps Lock instead. Use whichever you prefer. 
And with all that said, let's get started. 

I will be using Safari to download REAPER, OSARA and SWS, so I'll go to my dock with VO+d, find Safari and hit Enter. 
The first place we want to go to is reaper.fm. Command+l for the address bar and type that in. Hit enter. 

[The page, REAPER - Audio production without limits opens.]

It is quite possible that by the time you get here you will see a newer version of REAPER. That is as it should be and perfectly safe. Just grab whatever the latest version of REAPER is when you get here.

There are no headings on this page, so to make it easier, let's search, VO+f.

[I type download in the search box and hit enter.]

 That takes us to the link to the download page, so VO+Sspace on that. 

[The download  page loads.]

On this page there are headings, so navigate through those with VO+command+h. 

[I find the heading macOS.] 

VO rightArrow from here. 
When I'm recording this I am on Catalina. So,

[I find a link for the REAPER for macOS that works with my mac (Catalina) This will be different for you.]   ]

That's the one we want. VO+rightArrow from here to an image. VO+Space to start the download.

[Download has started and I'm asked if I want to allow this.]

If this is the first time you download from this place you will be asked to allow the download. 
[I hit VO+Space  on Allow.]

Moving on. We need OSARA. 
We can find that on osara.reaperaccessibility.com/snapshots. Let's go there.

[Again, I hit Command+L for the address bar, type in the address, and hit enter.]

This page has a total of one heading so let's search for what we want instead with VO+f. 

[I type download and hit enter.]
[The first search result is OSARA for Windows.]

Let's skip past Windows with VO+rightArrow. 
[The next link is for Mac.]

For Mac is much better. VO+Space on that..

[Download has started.]

One more download.

We strongly recommend you install the SWS extension. It has a ton of actions that are used in the OSARA keymap. 
REAPER can be used without it. But keep in mind that on our computers SWS is installed. 
So for you to follow our tutorials and demos with ease then you will have to have it installed as well. 

We can find that on sws-extension.org. 

[I hit Command l, type the address, and hit enter].

There are headings here and the first one will take us to Mac OS. Let's navigate from there. 
[I select the x64 version download.]

X64 is right. VO+Space on that. 

[I hit VO+Space and the download starts.]

And with that we have everything we need. Now let's install this stuff. 

Everything we just got is in the downloads folder. So let's open that with Command+Option+l. 

We're gonna start with REAPER. 

[I select the reaper Dmg file.]

So open the disk image with Command+o. 

[The end user licence agreement dialog opens where I can agree or disagree.]

Yeah, I read all of that. Honest. Just agree. 

[I VO+rightArrow to the agree button and hit VO+Space. The disc image opens.]

Disk images are opened in icon view. I don't like that so I change it to list view with Command+2.
In that folder we have an application alias that we don't need to worry about, a readme that you might want to read, reemote which is a different beast altogether and the reaper application. 

[I select REAPER Application.]

Copy that with Command+c. Open the applications folder with Command+Shift+a. 
Then Command+v to paste it in there. 

If you are updating from an earlier version, choose to replace file.]

Once that is in place go ahead and open it with Command+o. 

[A system security dialog opens.]

Your Mac wants to make sure that you really want to do that so hit Enter to open it. 
[A system dialog opens, requesting permission to access the documents folder.} 

The first time you open reaper it will ask for your permission to use your documents folder because that is the default location for your recordings. There is no allow button in this dialog so I will just hit Ok. 
[I hit VO+Space on the Ok button.  Another system dialog opens, requesting permission to access files in the desktop folder.]   

Now it's asking for permission to use your desktop folder. 

{I allow this with VO+Space on Ok. A final system dialog opens.]

And finally it's asking permission to use your microphone. 

[I allow this with VO+Space on Ok. REAPER opens.]
[VO ask: You have not yet selected an audio device. Would you like to select your audio device driver now?]

REAPER will ask you to select an audio device, because you haven't done that before, so hit Enter to do that.

[I hit Enter and Reapers Preferences window opans.]

You will be taken into the REAPER preferences, and into a table. It lands on device, which is where we want to be. 
If you don't have an interface, then you can let REAPER use the built-in outputs, which is default. 
But I want to use my Scarlett interface, so VO+rightArrow into these options. 

[I VO+rightArrow to the   Audio Device pop-up button. This is set to Built-in output.]

And VO+Space.

[A menu opens, showing the audio devices that are available on my system.]

You select with arrows, and hit enter to select. And hit enter again to accept your changes and close preferences. 

[I arrow down to Scarlet 2i2 USB and hit Enter, then Enter again to save my preferences and close the window.] 

Okay. I'm going to switch to the downloads folder again with Command+Tab, but I will leave REAPER open, because we will need one of its menu options in just a sec.

Next up, we need the SWS extension. 
And we have another disk image. Open with Command+o. 

[I select the sws disc image and open it with Command+o. A  licence agreement window opens,  asking me to agree.]

Now, just agree. 

Again, we can change icon view to list view with Command+2. 
Command+a to select everything, and Command+c to copy.
Now command tab back to REAPER. 
Open the menu with VO+m. RightArrow until you find the options menu.or hit o to jump straight to it. 

[I arrow down to the Show REAPER resource path in explorer slash finder menu item.]
That's the one we want, so hit enter to open that folder. 
Hit U to locate the user plugins folder, and open it with Command+o. 
Once in the  user plugins folder, hit Command+v to paste.

And  now you can close that window. 

[Command+w closes the window.]

That is all we need to do here for now. So quit REAPER with Command+q and start it again so SWS can be loaded. 

[I am back in the Applications folder. I open REAPER Application with Command+o. A system dialog opens with a warning regarding sws.]

This warning comes up because SWS is not a notarized extension. It's nothing to worry about, it's open source and stable. It's safe to use. 
The first time this comes up, there is no allow button, and no ok button. All we can do is cancel.

[I choose the Cancel button with VO+Space.]

To get past this, we need to find security and privacy in system preferences. 
Do VO+m to find the Apple menu. And hit enter on System Preferences. 

[System preferences opens.]

In here, VO+rightArrow until you reach the preference panes. Interact with this with VO+Shift+downArrow. VO+rightArrow until you find security and privacy, or hit the letter s to go straight there. VO+Space to open. 

[Hint:A faster way to get to the same place is to VO+m for the menu, rightArrow to the View menu, arrow down once, hit the letter p for Privacy and security and hit Enter.]

[I'm now in the Privacy and Security settings dialog.]

In here, VO+rightArrow until you find an Allow anyway button. VO+Space on that. 

and now you can close system prefs with Command+w. 
You might be wondering isn't there a faster way to do this? 
Yes there is. Do VO+End. It will take you to the end of a dialog. Do VO+leftArrow a few times from there and it takes you to the same place, just faster. 

Another option that's even faster is the Item Chooser. VO+i will generate a list of what's accessible on the screen. When the list is open, type allow. It will find allow anyway. Select it in the list, hit enter and it will take you straight to it. 


REAPER will need to be run one more time.

[I am back in the Applications folder with REAPER Application selected. I open it with Command+o.]

And guess what. 

[Another system alert dialog opens, asking if you are sure you want to open this file.]
You didn't see that coming did you. 

But this time there's an open button, so use that and all is well. 
[I hit VO+Space on the Open button and REAPER opens.]

Let's see if the SWS extension has been added properly. Go to the extension menu. If the about SWS extension menu item is there, then we're all good. 

Next up, OSARA. 
[Back in the downloads folder I select the OSARA disc image.]

 Open the disk image with Command+o. Command+2 to show it in list view. 
 And in here we have: 
 copying txt. I've never read that I don't think. 
 And a terminal shell script which we want to open right now. 

[I open the disc image with Command+o.]
[Another system dialog opens, informing me that this app cannot be verified by macOS. The only option here is to select Ok.]

More security. I'm so surprised. 
Hit OK on that. 
Wwe need to do this a little bit differently. What we need is VO+Shift+m to get into the context menu and select Open from there.

[Another system dialog opens, saying that OSARA cannot be verified.]

It will complain again, but this time you can select Open. 

[I VO+Space on Open.]

[The terminal opens and after a moment, the OSARA installation dialog.]
Here you can choose between Standard and Portable. We choose Standard with Enter. 
[The dialog now asks: Do you want to replace the existing keymap with the OSARA keymap?]

This is a fresh install, so I want to start out with a clean copy of the OSARA Keymap. When you update OSARA in the future, keep saying Yes to this if you want the latest OSARA Keymap. 
When you inevitably start customizing your keystrokes, then saying No to this will update OSARA but preserve your customizations. 
Here I will hit Enter to say Yes. 

[The OSARA installation closes and I'm back in the terminal.]

We are done with the terminal, so we can shut that down with Command+q. 

Now we want to run REAPER again to make sure that OSARA is working. If Apple complains about security again, you may have to go into System Preferences, Security & Privacy and Allow Anyway, just like we did with SWS a little while ago. 
Once REAPER has been restarted, up and down arrows will move between tracks in the OSARA keymap. If everything works as it should, we will hear "no tracks", because we have no tracks. 
But before I do that, there's one more important thing to say. 
You will need to run REAPER with a US English keyboard layout. This is to make sure that the hotkeys that we teach you will match up with the hotkeys that will work in REAPER on your machine. If you don't know how to do that, there is a tutorial available on the REAPER Made Easy page. 
Now, let's see if this works. 

[VO says "No tracks".]

We're all done. Bye!

[Production credits and links by Scott.]