[RWP] Groove Boxes, was Original Music

Tue Jun 25 11:36:43 EDT 2013

Regarding Poise, I've been exchanging messages with Shannon, the developer.
He is very interested in making the product more accessible. It's usable
with the Jaws cursor since many of the options are accessible from right
clicks on the graphic.

I had a little sighted assistance to make a few HSC spots  which move to a
pad and right click allowing me to paste a sample onto a pad...

Shannon is planning on downloading Jaws and possibly other screen readers to
see exactly how they respond. He is also making some changes now like
putting pad dependent features in the right click menu.

For me it is already worth the 50 bucks, but after some additional access
enhancements I think it will be a no brainer.

t

-----Original Message-----
From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at reaaccess.com] On Behalf Of Indigo
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 9:36 AM
To: Reapers Without Peepers
Subject: [RWP] Groove Boxes, was Original Music

I think that's right, the simple way Reaper works is like a groove box in
many ways.
Yesterday, I found a groove box VST plug called CereDrum.
Do you know that one?
It's free, has a sequencer, 4 drum kits to choose among; plus a bass
synthesizer.
I haven't had an opportunity to try it yet, but I might get lucky and find
it to be in text.
Actually, my Casio XW-G1 keyboard is exactly like running a groove box; very
much like the old Roland MC-505 and MC-307 I had previously; but easier than
they were.
There is a 16 pad VST sample player called Poise; that was written by a long
time MPC user, that does most of what the Akai MPC does.
You can drag/drop or paste samples, loops, anything onto its 16 virtual
pads, and assign the pads to keyboard keys, hardware pads, whatever.
Unfortunately, its screen graphics are not labeled; otherwise it would be
easy to run.

CereDrum doesn't play samples; unless you can maybe substitute your own
samples for its onboard drum kits, but I'll post a link to CereDrum if it's
accessible.
Indi

On 6/24/2013 1:30 PM, Stephan Merk wrote:
> No, I can use a 6x lens and I can see the cursor position. Amazing is 
> that the cursor has fixed positions so you can count by pressing the
cursor keys.
> If you go left, you will reach the top left of the screen and keep 
> this position. The same while walking with Cursor right to bottom 
> right. So it gives me the real feel of a real hardware device but with 
> much more power and benefits.
>
> I connected Akai on this because if the display of the MPC could be 
> mirrored as a text window on the computer, it would be accessible 
> because most elements are text-based. The software itself which you 
> can alternatively use is full graphical, with NVDA you have no access.
>
> I think that this workflow in general is useful for those who know the 
> old hardware sequencers without any overdozed interfaces.
>
>
> Viele Grüße
>
> --
> Stephan Merk, www.merkst.de
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at reaaccess.com] On Behalf Of Indigo
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 6:11 PM
> To: Reapers Without Peepers
> Subject: Re: [RWP] Original Music
>
> Stephan, have you used the MPC without sight?
>
> Those are very interesting to me, especially now that they finally got
> 24 bit samples, but I haven't met any blind users of the Akai MPC.
>
> I have wanted to buy the Native Instruments Maschine, but think it may 
> be not so easy to run without being able to constantly look at the screen.
> I know for certain that some selections in Maschine must be made from 
> the screen, such as browsing to samples to load them I don't think I 
> could even get samples loaded onto pads.
> How much do you need to do in the Akai MPC that would be easier with 
> sight, or is it also impossible without seeing?
> Thanks,
> Indi.
>
> On 6/24/2013 10:27 AM, Stephan Merk wrote:
>> Brian,
>>
>>
>>
>> this is helpful as well, because I forgot the fact about the scripts 
>> which are available. ;-) That means in general that some guys made 
>> thoughts about making it accessible. This I think does the ReaAccess 
>> project as well, but AFAIK the scripts for Sonar are not for free, so 
>> they have a commercial touch or in other words, the functionality is 
>> more
> expected.
>>
>>
>>
>> As I have seen and my hope is, that I can use Reaper as a MIDI 
>> sequencer for my new VST instruments. If this works as I expect, it 
>> is enough for me. I’d never played around with audio mixing and 
>> syncing audio tracks with MIDI and so on. I like the workflow of my 
>> MPC, that’s it
> like I know from the 80ies.
>> ;)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Viele Grüße
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Stephan Merk, www.merkst.de
>>
>>
>>
>> From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at reaaccess.com] On Behalf Of Brian Casey
>> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 3:21 PM
>> To: Reapers Without Peepers
>> Subject: Re: [RWP] Original Music
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> That is hard to say,  because I rely on sonar to make my living in my 
>> studio, it is the daw that I know best by far, and I also use the 
>> CakeTalking scripts, so I don't have the most balanced opinion on the 
>> matter.
>>
>>
>>
>> Others have opinions on which is better and why, but really I am just 
>> used to sonar and the plug-ins that come with it, and I don't have 
>> time to fully
>>
>> investigate reaper and I don't have the time to find out if I can do 
>> all the same things as quickly with reaper.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sorry, that's not very helpful but I don't want to go telling someone 
>> sonar is better or worse when I don't know reaper fully,
>>
>>
>>
>> I do think sonar might have better synths that come with the producer 
>> version, but access to those depends on using CakeTalking, jSonar 
>> scripts or some other HSC sets.
>>
>>
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Brian.
>>
>> From: Stephan Merk <mailto:dl7fos at hotmail.com>
>>
>> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 2:13 PM
>>
>> To: 'Reapers Without Peepers' <mailto:rwp at reaaccess.com>
>>
>> Subject: Re: [RWP] Original Music
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>>
>>
>> what do you think is on Sonar better? I read sometimes that blind 
>> people using Sonar but I didn’t tried it out, too expensive for my 
>> needs. ;) However, Sonar is Cakewaalk and they purchased the Voyetra 
>> Sequencing products which I was using 20 years ago
 ;)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Viele Grüße
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Stephan Merk, www.merkst.de
>>
>>
>>
>> From: RWP [ <mailto:rwp-bounces at reaaccess.com>
>> mailto:rwp-bounces at reaaccess.com] On Behalf Of Brian Casey
>> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 2:18 PM
>> To: Reapers Without Peepers
>> Subject: Re: [RWP] Original Music
>>
>>
>>
>> I've posted these tracks on the midi mag list before, but heres my 
>> sound cloud with some original material I finished recently,, 95% of 
>> the instrumentation etc is me, and I did all the mixing also. Its all 
>> done in sonar though because I'm still afraid of reaper!
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.soundcloud.com/briancaseymusic
>>
>>
>>
>> I appreciate any listens greatly,
>>
>>
>>
>> Brian.
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Jim Snowbarger <mailto:Snowman at SnowmanRadio.com>
>>
>> Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2013 5:47 AM
>>
>> To: Reapers Without Peepers <mailto:rwp at reaaccess.com>
>>
>> Subject: [RWP] Original Music
>>
>>
>>
>> Hey, let's each one of us who can, contribute a link to a recording 
>> of a song that we actually wrote ourselves, and primarily, and 
>> hopefully entirely, performed.  One track per person.  Pick a track 
>> that really says you, and throw it in the pot.  Let's find out who we are
musically.
>>
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