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Fiore,<br>
May I ask why you need ReaAccess? I'm not sure if you are aware,
but ReaAccess got superseded a long time ago by a plugin called
Osara. Now a days, there is no reason for anyone to use ReaAccess
anymore, as Osara can do many things ReaAccess cannot. You can find
it <a href="https://github.com/nvaccess/osara">here</a>. I hope
this clears things up.<br>
Thanks,<br>
Nick<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/22/2016 6:57 AM, Fiore Martin
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<div dir="ltr">Hi all,
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<div>Does anybody know where I can get a copy of ReaAccess for
windows ? The domain of the website seems to be expired.</div>
<div><br>
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<div>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</div>
<div>in order to make them accessible. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>more info and link to the first prototype below and if
you'd like to give some feedback, I am all ears</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>thank you </div>
<div>Fiore </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><br>
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<div><br>
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<div>Links for plug-in download:</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://depic.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/sites/depic.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/files/AccessibleSpectrumAnalyser_draft1_32bit.dll">VST
plugin 32 bit for Windows</a></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://depic.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/sites/depic.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/files/AccessibleSpectrumAnalyser_draft1_64bit.dll">VST
plugin 64 bit for Windows </a></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://depic.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/?q=system/files/AccessibleSpectrumAnalyser.component.zip">AU
plugin for Mac</a>, drop it in
/Library/Audio/Plug-ins/Components</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Usage:</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>You can select the range of frequencies you want to
monitor by setting selection-start and selection-size
parameters. </div>
<div>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 </div>
<div>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. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>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. </div>
<div>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.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>at the moment only the frequency component with the
biggest magnitude in the selection is taken into account for
the sonification </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>dry and wet parameters are for volumes of the original
audio and the sonification respectively. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>And now some questions if you'd like to answer any of
them : </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>1) would you find this plug-in useful ? </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>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 </div>
<div>to indicate if the selection and hence the sonified
frequency components are towards the low end of the spectrum
or the high end. </div>
<div>However this information might be redundant since you set
the selection yourselves and you know already where it is? </div>
<div>Another option could be to use panning to give
information about the location of the peaking frequency
components within the selection. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>3) would you prefer to have the sound of all the
frequency components passing the threshold in the selection
rather than the biggest ? </div>
<div>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.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>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 ? </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>5) Would you prefer to have a selection-end parameter
rather than selection-size or doesn't really matter ?</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Thanks</div>
<div>Fiore</div>
</div>
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