[Rwp] Off-topic: Does Anyone Have Midi Quest by Sound Quest?

[Chris Belle]

Maybe a good candidate for hsc.

Or maybe ahk.

Now who's gonna step up and do the work, and who's gonna pay for it?
That's the billion dollar digital question?

On 1/8/2016 4:42 AM, Matej Golian wrote:
> Hi again,
> this is the response I got from Midi Quest support:
>
> "Thanks for your feedback. I should give you a little history to add
> to your knowledge.
>
> Midi Quest has been around a very long time and one of the ways that
> the program has survived is that it is still based on some of the
> structures from its inception. My understanding is that all of the
> text readers do their job by querying controls for their text contents
> and turning this into spoken language. The problem is that Windows,
> back at that time, provided only a limited number of controls as
> resources and beyond that it would simply fail. The number of
> available controls was not even close to sufficient to create even a
> relatively simple editor. As a result, and I believe this is true of
> all major editor/librarians, we were forced to create our own set of
> controls which we use to display and control editing of the instrument
> parameters. (Also, we found that relying on Windows to displays these
> highly control based editors resulted in unacceptable rendering delays
> and a very bad user experience. Another reason why we had to abandon
> the control based design.)
>
> At this point, we really can't go back. The graphic layouts are an
> integral part of how the information is displayed and if would require
> a huge investment in rework in order to present the information in a
> way that would support text readers.
>
> We do our best to track the interests of our customers and potential
> customers and the unfortunate truth, from our perspective anyway, is
> that we have seen anything close to the level of interest that would
> be required to make Midi Quest user friendly to the blind. We are
> admittedly a small company and we certainly don't have the resources
> to invest in a project like this and find out that we were wrong.
> Frankly, we would be out of business."
>
> I guess there's no hope for us. Still I wonder whether money really is
> such a big issue in this case. Sure, Midi Quest with its more than 700
> instruments is a pretty big program, but from personal experience I
> know that lack of money is often used as an excuse. After all, it's a
> lot easier to say that we don't have the resources to do it than to go
> and do something about it. Than again this only my perception and I
> might be wrong.
> Be as it may, it's very unfortunate that there is practically zero
> accessibility when it comes to this kind of software.
>
> All the best
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> 2016-01-04 15:05 GMT+01:00, Matej Golian <matej.golian at gmail.com>:
>> Hi, thanks for your response.
>> I think we're in a similar situation. On Windows I can audition,
>> delete, clear and perhaps ecen copy and paste the patches of my synth,
>> but so far I haven't found out how to edit them. Hope it's possible.
>> If not, I guess it makes no difference whether one's running Mac or
>> Windows.
>> Thanks again
>> Matej
>>
>> 2016-01-04 14:51 GMT+01:00, Delaunay Christophe
>> <christophe.delaunay at technicolor.com>:
>>> Hi Matej and all,
>>>
>>> I tried its mac OS version on my mac but could not use it with VO.
>>> Therefore, I am still desperately looking for a midi librarian to handle
>>> my
>>> hardware devices. Could a good reaper plugin do such a job?
>>>
>>> Have a nice day and happy new year. ChD
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Matej
>>> Golian
>>> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2016 2:27 PM
>>> To: Reapers Without Peepers <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
>>> Subject: [Rwp] Off-topic: Does Anyone Have Midi Quest by Sound Quest?
>>>
>>> Sorry for this off-topic question, but I can't think of a better place
>>> to ask it.
>>> Does anyone know whether the program Midi Quest developed by Sound
>>> Quest is accessible?
>>> I'm testing it right now and so far it's pretty good (thanks to NVDA's
>>> screen review). Has anyone had any experience with this program?
>>> Many thanks.
>>> Matej
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