[Rwp] ReaAccess no longer available

[Oriol Gómez]

Yeah, screw reaacess. :) Osara ftw!

On 1/22/16, Tayeb Meftah <tayeb.meftah at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
> i think reaAccess is getting sleepy and wouldn't be used a lot in the few
> month
> lot of People is switching to OSARA, writen by NVAccess the company
> responcible for the NVDA screen reader
> would you mind trying it out?
> please note that OSARA plugin would require the SWS reaper extention
> thanks
>
>
> Envoyé de mon iPad
>
>> Le 22 janv. 2016 à 12:57, Fiore Martin <mister.bloom at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>> 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
>>
>> VST plugin 64 bit  for Windows
>>
>> AU plugin for Mac, 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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