[Rwp] ReaAccess no longer available

[Chris Smart]

You need to get Osara instead!
https://github.com/nvaccess/osara

Reaccess hasn't been developed for years.

At 06:57 AM 1/22/2016, you wrote:
>Hi all,Â
>
>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.Â
>
>more info and link to the first prototype below 
>and if you'd like to give some feedback, I am all ears
>
>thank youÂ
>FioreÂ
>
>
>
>Links for plug-in download:
>
><http://depic.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/sites/depic.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/files/AccessibleSpectrumAnalyser_draft1_32bit.dll>VST 
>plugin 32 bit  for Windows
>
><http://depic.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/sites/depic.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/files/AccessibleSpectrumAnalyser_draft1_64bit.dll>VST 
>plugin 64 bit  for WindowsÂ
>
><http://depic.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/?q=system/files/AccessibleSpectrumAnalyser.component.zip>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.Â
>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 1880HzÂ
>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.Â
>
>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 
>Â one semitone per db of difference between the 
>frequency component and the threshold.Â
>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 sonificationÂ
>
>dry and wet parameters are for volumes of the 
>original audio and the sonification respectively. Â
>
>
>And now some questions if you'd like to answer any of them :Â
>
>1) would you find this plug-in useful ?Â
>
>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 panningÂ
>to indicate if the selection and hence the 
>sonified frequency components are towards the 
>low end of the spectrum or the high end.Â
>However this information might be redundant 
>since you set the selection yourselves and you know already where it is?Â
>Another option could be to use panning to give 
>information about the location of the peaking 
>frequency components within the selection.Â
>
>3) would you prefer to have the sound of all the 
>frequency components passing the threshold in 
>the selection rather than the biggest ?Â
>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 ?Â
>
>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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