<div dir="ltr">Hi Scott, <div>yes I've kindly been introduced to OSARA already </div><div><br></div><div>I installed OSARA and the plug-in seems to work fine. </div><div>The only problem is that, since one of the parameters goes from 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz, it can be a bit cumbersome to move along the frequency spectrum. </div><div><br></div><div>Changing value with the page up and page down buttons mitigates it a bit but there are still a lot of values.</div><div><br></div><div>The only thing I can do is to distribute the values logarithmically. In the low end the values will be more dense and in the high end more sparse. </div><div>So for example if you press arrow up at 20 Hz it will go to 30Hz, but if you press the arrow at 21700 Hz it will jump to 217500 Hz.</div><div>An increment of 10 Hz versus an increment of 500 Hz with the same action. </div><div><br></div><div>This is how spectrum visual graphs are normally arranged by the way </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>thanks</div><div>Fiore</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-01-22 15:05 GMT+00:00 Scott Chesworth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scottchesworth@gmail.com" target="_blank">scottchesworth@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hey Fiore,<br>
<br>
I need to renew the domain. Have been meaning to do this for a while,<br>
but the schedule is a bit insane here at the moment. I see a few other<br>
peeps have hooked you up with OSARA to test with in the meantime<br>
though. Once you've installed the D&G keymap, it'll behave very<br>
similarly to ReaAccess when it comes to displaying parameters and<br>
such.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Scott<br>
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On 1/22/16, Fiore Martin <<a href="mailto:mister.bloom@gmail.com">mister.bloom@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Thank you for catching me up guys!<br>
><br>
> F.<br>
><br>
> 2016-01-22 13:11 GMT+00:00 Oriol Gómez <<a href="mailto:ogomez.s92@gmail.com">ogomez.s92@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
><br>
>> Yeah, screw reaacess. :) Osara ftw!<br>
>><br>
>> On 1/22/16, Tayeb Meftah <<a href="mailto:tayeb.meftah@gmail.com">tayeb.meftah@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > Hello<br>
>> > i think reaAccess is getting sleepy and wouldn't be used a lot in the<br>
>> > few<br>
>> > month<br>
>> > lot of People is switching to OSARA, writen by NVAccess the company<br>
>> > responcible for the NVDA screen reader<br>
>> > would you mind trying it out?<br>
>> > please note that OSARA plugin would require the SWS reaper extention<br>
>> > thanks<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > Envoyé de mon iPad<br>
>> ><br>
>> >> Le 22 janv. 2016 à 12:57, Fiore Martin <<a href="mailto:mister.bloom@gmail.com">mister.bloom@gmail.com</a>> a<br>
>> écrit :<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Hi all,<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Does anybody know where I can get a copy of ReaAccess for windows ?<br>
>> >> The<br>
>> >> domain of the website seems to be expired.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> By the way, the reason I need it is to test a plug-in I am working on<br>
>> >> at<br>
>> >> Queen Mary University of London called Accessible Spectrum Analyser,<br>
>> which<br>
>> >> sonifies frequency spectra<br>
>> >> in order to make them accessible.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> more info and link to the first prototype below and if you'd like to<br>
>> give<br>
>> >> some feedback, I am all ears<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> thank you<br>
>> >> Fiore<br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Links for plug-in download:<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> VST plugin 32 bit for Windows<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> VST plugin 64 bit for Windows<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> AU plugin for Mac, drop it in /Library/Audio/Plug-ins/Components<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Usage:<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> You can select the range of frequencies you want to monitor by<br>
>> >> setting<br>
>> >> selection-start and selection-size parameters.<br>
>> >> For example if you'd like to monitor the frequencies from 20Hz to<br>
>> >> 1Khz,<br>
>> >> you want to set selection start to 20Hz and selection size to 1880Hz<br>
>> >> So once the selection size is set, by moving the selection start<br>
>> >> parameter, you can scan the whole spectrum from low frequencies to<br>
>> >> high<br>
>> >> frequencies.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Then to activate the sonification, you want to tweak the threshold<br>
>> >> parameter: when any of the frequencies in the selection goes above the<br>
>> >> threshold, the plug-in will beep at 440Hz plus one semitone per db<br>
>> >> of<br>
>> >> difference between the frequency component and the threshold.<br>
>> >> For instance if your audio has one frequency component whose magnitude<br>
>> is<br>
>> >> -3db and you set your threshold at -2db you will hear an A#, which is<br>
>> >> given by 440Hz (A) plus one semitone for the 1 db difference.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> at the moment only the frequency component with the biggest magnitude<br>
>> >> in<br>
>> >> the selection is taken into account for the sonification<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> dry and wet parameters are for volumes of the original audio and the<br>
>> >> sonification respectively.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> And now some questions if you'd like to answer any of them :<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> 1) would you find this plug-in useful ?<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> 2) would you prefer to have some indication in the sonification of<br>
>> >> where<br>
>> >> the selection is in the total spectral range. For example I could use<br>
>> >> panning<br>
>> >> to indicate if the selection and hence the sonified frequency<br>
>> >> components<br>
>> >> are towards the low end of the spectrum or the high end.<br>
>> >> However this information might be redundant since you set the<br>
>> >> selection<br>
>> >> yourselves and you know already where it is?<br>
>> >> Another option could be to use panning to give information about the<br>
>> >> location of the peaking frequency components within the selection.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> 3) would you prefer to have the sound of all the frequency components<br>
>> >> passing the threshold in the selection rather than the biggest ?<br>
>> >> In this case the sound would be made out of a lot of sine waves with<br>
>> >> different pitch (one per component) and obviously the pitch would no<br>
>> >> longer be linked to the difference with the threshold. I am afraid<br>
>> >> this<br>
>> >> would turn out to be quite noisy though.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> 4) how easy/hard is it for you to handle parameters which such a big<br>
>> range<br>
>> >> like the selection start going from 20 to 20.000 ?<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> 5) Would you prefer to have a selection-end parameter rather than<br>
>> >> selection-size or doesn't really matter ?<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Thanks<br>
>> >> Fiore<br>
>> >><br>
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