[Rwp] ReaAccess no longer available

Fri Jan 22 21:17:50 EST 2016

I didn't renew a domain once, and it was squatted in less than half an 
hour after it expired.
So, there's that...

On 1/22/2016 10:54 AM, Jayson Smith wrote:
> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>> RWP mailing list
>>>>>> RWP at bluegrasspals.com
>>>>>> http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> RWP mailing list
>>>> RWP at bluegrasspals.com
>>>> http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp
>>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> RWP mailing list
>> RWP at bluegrasspals.com
>> http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> RWP mailing list
> RWP at bluegrasspals.com
> http://bluegrasspals.com/mailman/listinfo/rwp