[Rwp] ReaAccess no longer available

Fri Jan 22 10:54:43 EST 2016

Hi,

If you're going to renew the domain, you don't need to put it off. I 
think in many cases the renewal period is thirty days from expiration, 
sometimes less. Once it gets completely deleted, it becomes available 
for anyone who wants it to register. While we'd like to think someone on 
this list could register it and just point it to the same server, in 
reality what tends to happen a lot of the time is that a domain squatter 
grabs it and fills it with ads, and either won't sell it to anyone else 
or will charge through the nose for the domain hoping the original owner 
will want it back bad enough to pay their outrageous rates.

I do agree that even if the domain is lost, ReaAccess shouldn't 
disappear. True it's not being updated any more, but it's a piece of 
history, showing where we came from.

Jayson

On 1/22/2016 10:05 AM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
> 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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