[musictlk] Music software

[Sandra Gayer]

Hello Kenneth,
I would be extremely interested in your Sonifier. Let me know when
you'd like some testers!

Very best wishes,
Sandra.

On 3/31/14, josh lester <jlestermusic at gmail.com> wrote:
> For good synthesis, get the Mac and you can use Garageband!
> Blessings, Joshua
>
> On 3/31/14, Kenneth Downey <kenwdowney at me.com> wrote:
>> I have noticed over the years that there is very little music software
>> for
>> the blind. Yes, we have sequencers like QWS and Sonar, and the Dancing
>> Dots
>> software for braille music, but there are some things I would really like
>> to
>> be able to do, and I'm wondering if any of you have ideas on this.
>> 1. Synthesis. On one hand, VST hosts, at least the ones I know about, do
>> everything graphically, so even though you   can load a soft synth like
>> Hypersonic into memory, you're not likely to be able to do much with it
>> except play the preassigned patches and soundscapes, unless you want to
>> just
>> experimentally click around with the mouse. A really good examlle, using
>> Hypersonic 2, is modulation speed. While you can adjust a lot of
>> variables
>> with knobs, switches and buttons on a MIDI keyboard, you can't adjust the
>> speed of vibrato, because it's generally not something assigned to a MIDI
>> CC
>> number. Audacity has a wonderful nongraphical interface for VST plugins,
>> but
>> to my knowledge it can not be used to play MIDI live.
>> 2. Other programs, like Synth Edit, just aren't accessible, at least to
>> my
>> knowledge. While it's true that, through programs like CHUCK, sounds can
>> be
>> created through a C style -mand line language, and CSound which is
>> similar,
>> what I am really after is something like my old JD800. Yes, I could
>> probably
>> learn a whole new programming language and work  for hours to make sounds
>> I
>> used to be able to make in just a few minutes with my keyboard, but not
>> everyone can learn programming, and personally I can think of much better
>> uses of my time than to spend hours making a sound I may only use once or
>> twice. It's high time that the blind community as a whole gets to
>> experience
>> what I did with my old JD 800.
>> Next comes audio analysis. We can do a lot of this by ear, but our ers
>> can't
>> give us as much detail as we might like.  There are two types of analysis
>> I
>> know of. One type is amplitude analysis, and that's what sighted people
>> see
>> on the screen when examining wave forms. This type, while fascinating,
>> would
>> be more educational than necessary. It would be just as easy to listen
>> for
>> clicks and pops than to sonify a waveform and listen for abrupt changes
>> in
>> it. Nevertheless, I am working on such a sonifier if any of you are
>> interested in hearing what these wave forms sound like. Frequency
>> analysis,
>> on the other hand, is very important, as it allows you to do everything
>> from
>> synthesizing complex sounds to finding frequencies that need to be
>> filtered
>> from a sound.
>> So my question is, what accessible software do you know about? I'm
>> running
>> Windows Xp currently, but may get a Mac in future. I also have an iPhone,
>> and have to say that the music apps on iOS that are accessible are
>> astounding.
>> Thanks in advance for all the feedback!
>> '
>>
>> Good is the worst enemy of best.
>> Ken
>>
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