[Rwp] ReaAccess no longer available

[Snowman]

Accessible spectrum analyzer?  fantastic,  long over due.  I can't wait to check this one out.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Fiore Martin 
  To: rwp at bluegrasspals.com 
  Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 5:57 AM
  Subject: [Rwp] ReaAccess no longer available


  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
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://bluegrasspals.com/pipermail/rwp/attachments/20160122/ad5a7d50/attachment.html>