[Rwp] ReaAccess no longer available

[Fiore Martin]

Thank you for catching me up guys!

F.

2016-01-22 13:11 GMT+00:00 Oriol Gómez <ogomez.s92 at gmail.com>:

> 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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