[Rwp] ReaAccess no longer available

[Scott Chesworth]

Hey Fiore,

I need to renew the domain. Have been meaning to do this for a while,
but the schedule is a bit insane here at the moment. I see a few other
peeps have hooked you up with OSARA to test with in the meantime
though. Once you've installed the D&G keymap, it'll behave very
similarly to ReaAccess when it comes to displaying parameters and
such.

Scott

On 1/22/16, Fiore Martin <mister.bloom at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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