[Rwp] ReaAccess no longer available

[Nick Giannak III]

Fiore,
     May I ask why you need ReaAccess? I'm not sure if you are aware, 
but ReaAccess got superseded a long time ago by a plugin called Osara. 
Now a days, there is no reason for anyone to use ReaAccess anymore, as 
Osara can do many things ReaAccess cannot. You can find it here 
<https://github.com/nvaccess/osara>. I hope this clears things up.
Thanks,
Nick

On 1/22/2016 6:57 AM, Fiore Martin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anybody know where I can get a copy of ReaAccess for windows ? 
> The domain of the website seems to be expired.
>
> By the way, the reason I need it is to test a plug-in I am working on 
> at Queen Mary University of London called Accessible Spectrum 
> Analyser, which sonifies frequency spectra
> in order to make them accessible.
>
> more info and link to the first prototype below and if you'd like to 
> give some feedback, I am all ears
>
> thank you
> Fiore
>
>
>
> Links for plug-in download:
>
> VST plugin 32 bit  for Windows 
> <http://depic.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/sites/depic.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/files/AccessibleSpectrumAnalyser_draft1_32bit.dll>
>
> VST plugin 64 bit  for Windows 
> <http://depic.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/sites/depic.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/files/AccessibleSpectrumAnalyser_draft1_64bit.dll>
>
> AU plugin for Mac 
> <http://depic.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/?q=system/files/AccessibleSpectrumAnalyser.component.zip>, 
> drop it in /Library/Audio/Plug-ins/Components
>
> Usage:
>
> You can select the range of frequencies you want to monitor  by 
> setting selection-start and selection-size parameters.
> For example if you'd like to monitor the frequencies from 20Hz to 
> 1Khz, you want to set selection start to 20Hz and selection size to 
> 1880Hz
> So once the selection size is set, by moving the selection start 
> parameter, you can scan the whole spectrum from low frequencies to 
> high frequencies.
>
> Then to activate the sonification, you want to tweak the threshold 
> parameter: when any of the frequencies in the selection goes above the 
> threshold, the plug-in will beep at 440Hz  plus  one semitone per db 
> of difference between the frequency component and the threshold.
> For instance if your audio has one frequency component whose magnitude 
> is -3db and you set your threshold at -2db you will hear  an A#, which 
> is given by 440Hz (A) plus one semitone for the 1 db difference.
>
> at the moment only the frequency component with the biggest magnitude 
> in the selection is taken into account for the sonification
>
> dry and wet parameters are for volumes of the original audio and the 
> sonification respectively.
>
>
> And now some questions if you'd like to answer any of them :
>
> 1) would you find this plug-in useful ?
>
> 2) would you prefer to have some indication in the sonification of 
> where the selection is in the total spectral range.  For example I 
> could use panning
> to indicate if the selection and hence the sonified frequency 
> components are towards the low end of the spectrum or the high end.
> However this information might be redundant since you set the 
> selection yourselves and you know already where it is?
> Another option could be to use panning to give information about the 
> location of the peaking frequency components within the selection.
>
> 3) would you prefer to have the sound of all the frequency components 
> passing the threshold in the selection rather than the biggest ?
> In this case the sound would be made out of a lot of sine waves with 
> different pitch (one per component) and obviously the pitch would no 
> longer be linked to the difference with the threshold. I am afraid 
> this would turn out to be quite noisy though.
>
> 4) how easy/hard is it for you to handle parameters which such a big 
> range like the selection start going from 20 to 20.000 ?
>
> 5) Would you prefer to have a selection-end parameter rather than 
> selection-size or doesn't really matter ?
>
> Thanks
> Fiore
>
>
>
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