[Rwp] starting the final year of my music degree, need an accessible system to compose using midi. Tips and suggestions most welcome!

[Scott Chesworth]

The short answer is that you're out of luck with Ableton on any
platform if you want speech feedback and a fine level of control.

Tbh, if your course is heavily based around MIDI work, I'd say your
best bet is gonna be Sonar. The MIDI events list is simpler to use
than in Reaper, and it still has the most bolt-on solutions for
accessing softsynths and the like at this point.

Briefly putting my moderator hat on for a sec, I'd like this not to
turn into a gigantic thread about other DAWs, but I don't see anything
wrong with pointing people in the right direction.

Scott

On 2/9/15, KrystelKeller Music via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> Dear all.
> Finally after a very long time, I am about to commence my final year
> of my bachelor of music degree.
> I will be taking a music technology course, and am required to work in
> the colleg midi labs, using a system to compose with midi.
> My university is using ableton. So My questions are.
> Is ableton accessible with Jaws, NVDA etc,
> If not
> What do I need to run reaper successfully.
> They have said that if needed they will make a work station accessible
> to me and load the software I need on to it.
> Would I be best using Reaper, jaws and a midi keyboard? If so, how can
> I get hold of some samples to use?
> Or if anyone has experience with ableton, could you please message me
> off list, as I know that program is not what this list is about.
> Thanks all.
> Krystel.
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