<div dir="ltr">Thank you for catching me up guys!<div><br></div><div>F.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-01-22 13:11 GMT+00:00 Oriol Gómez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ogomez.s92@gmail.com" target="_blank">ogomez.s92@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yeah, screw reaacess. :) Osara ftw!<br>
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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 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 écrit :<br>
>><br>
>> Hi all,<br>
>><br>
>> Does anybody know where I can get a copy of ReaAccess for windows ? 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 at<br>
>> Queen Mary University of London called Accessible Spectrum Analyser, 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 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 setting<br>
>> selection-start and selection-size parameters.<br>
>> For example if you'd like to monitor the frequencies from 20Hz to 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 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 of<br>
>> difference between the frequency component and the threshold.<br>
>> For instance if your audio has one frequency component whose magnitude 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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