[Perform-talk] access to cakewalk sonar's many plug-ins for Window-Eyes Users

[David Andrews]

>
>If you're interested in this please make sure you write to Chris
>directly at cb1963 at sbcglobal.net.  Also all prices are in US dollars.
>-Steve.
>
>  From:    Chris Belle cb1963 at sbcglobal.net
>
>Hey you all,
>
>I'd like to put my humble services before you and test the waters as
>to possible interest and viability.
>
>Some of you know me, my name is Chris Belle and I've been causing
>trouble, errr, I mean being helpful and productive and working with
>people in and around and about the recording arena and computer
>technology for more years than I'd like to think about 'grin'.
>
>Well, for those of you who might be using cakewalk sonar, which is my
>daw of choice, what we've always lacked in the window-eyes world is
>easy access to the plug-ins.
>We have basic access to the main app, but not the vst or dxi stuff natively.
>That's where the true power of sonar is.
>
>Many of these are very graphical, with no way to easily get to
>sliders and buttons, and this is something that jaws users enjoy with
>caketalk and jsonar with custom scripting with hotspot clicker.
>Hotspot clicker has it's limitations too.
>I have been working with gwmicro to perfect it's own hotspot and it's
>coming along nicely, but in the mean time,
>I've been using another  third party tool and
>my knowledge of sonar to script very easily portable scripts for the
>various plug-ins in sonar, such as the sonitus compressor, equalizer,
>sessiondrummer3, etc.
>
>So far, I've done sessiondrummer 3, which has a 12th channel mixer,
>and a graphical drum kit, it's completely and easily accessible for a
>blind person with window-eyes now.
>
>Display resolution doesn't matter, this tool I'm using seems to very
>gracefully handle this.
>
>Now what I'm getting at is that I want to offer these scripts for
>others not for free, but for a very low price.
>
>But I don't want to get in to a lot of hand holding, and support issues,
>I want to reasonably support these products, but I want to offer the
>benefit of my hard work to others to help bridge the gap for us, and
>do it so anyone can afford it.
>
>I was thinking something like $10 a plug-in.
>
>
>Well, my plug-ins will have custom help, menus, and hot keys and hot strings.
>
>Hotstring are cool, because you can type a word or part of a word,
>followed by an ending character such as period or enter and then
>trigger the action.
>
>Say you want to go to the 10th pan pot on sessiondrummer3 you type
>p10. and there you are, you  have focus and you can move the slider
>with the arrow keys.
>
>Imagine having to do that for about 150 controls finding them manually.
>
>Same for playing midi patterns, or routing to the different pads to
>load different samples.
>
>How about hitting ts. for threshold slider and being right there, and
>then rs. for ratio slider for a compressor, and then jumping over to
>your output meters or makeup gain to see how the compressor is
>affecting the signal.
>
>The nice thing is that these scripts will watch for the window your
>in and sit quietly and not do anything till your in the right window.
>
>It couldn't be easier to install these scripts, just run the
>executable and it's working.
>
>Completely screen-reader independant, but they make a beautiful
>companion for our fine screen-reader we all love.
>
>And it doesn't matter which version of we you are running or whether
>scripting is on or off.
>
>Anyway, what I have to offer so far is
>sessiondrummer 3, the sfz soundfont and sample player, both the
>internal and stand alone versions for sonar 6 and beyond,
>the sonitus compressor, and just for fun and testing, I did malware
>bytes to do a few actions
>that require multiple mouse clicks quickly.
>
>Oh yeh, and antares autotune evo has a basic script too.
>
>
>Anyway, I was approached by someone privately off this list who
>expressed interest and said it was worth something to him, and so not
>a programmer by nature, I've taken on the challenge of making those
>of us who love to work with audio
>and love to use we a little easier.
>
>If I get enough interest, I'll start making this available, if not,
>I'll shut up and go away, and do it for myself.
>
>Blessing from us here at
>Affordable Studio Services.
>
>Chris Belle
>
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