[musictlk] Music software

Mon Mar 31 18:23:47 UTC 2014

The sonifier I coeated uses Goldwave, a sound editor for Windows. It's basically just a mathematical expression. If you have Goldwave, I can send you the exsression and 
 you can tzpe it in. It's a bit of a tricky process because you have to slow down the wave file to the speed necessary for hearing the changes inthe file. Right now, though, it's the only ostion available as far as I know.
Goldwave can also save files in text format, which is just a list of amplitudes in text format. If there is enough interest I can create a poogram in vb 6 that sonifies these text files, but I'm not sure if there is a need or if it's even practical. Like I said, the real need is frequency analxsis and synthesis.
As far as Garage Band goes, I have the iOs version, but don't have a mac, but the musicians I know say that Logic is way better. They are sighted though, so I'm wondering how accessible it is. Also I'm wondering how accessible Digital Performer is? 

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> On Mar 31, 2014, at 7:53 AM, Sandra Gayer <sandragayer7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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