[Jsonar] Plug-in Accessibility

Tue Oct 20 15:43:35 PDT 2009

Rats - he was really helpful when I contacted him last, but that was quite a
while ago.

Best wishes.

Tim Burgess
Raised Bar Ltd
Phone:  +44 (0)1827 719822
Mobile:  07989 486976
Web:  http://www.raisedbar.net
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Atherstone-United-Kingdom/Raised-Bar-Ltd/12023
4896800

Don't forget to vote for improved access to music and music technology at

http://www.raisedbar.net/petition.htm

-----Original Message-----
From: jsonar-bounces at jsonar.org [mailto:jsonar-bounces at jsonar.org] On Behalf
Of Chris Smart
Sent: 20 October 2009 21:27
To: JSonar -- JAWS Scripts for Sonar list
Subject: Re: [Jsonar] Plug-in Accessibility

Hi Tim.

My message bounced back to me from that address when I tried it 
yesterday.
thanks though,
Chris

At 04:28 PM 10/20/2009, you wrote:
>Chris,
>
>I've not played with this software, even though I've got it in my 
>Sound
>Forge purchase.  For what it's worth, the guy to contact re 
>DirectiXer is
>kkm at pobox.com
>
>Best wishes.
>
>Tim Burgess
>Raised Bar Ltd
>Phone:  +44 (0)1827 719822
>Mobile:  07989 486976
>Web:  http://www.raisedbar.net
>Facebook:
>http://www.facebook.com/pages/Atherstone-United-Kingdom/Raised-Bar-Ltd/1202
3
>4896800
>
>Don't forget to vote for improved access to music and music 
>technology at
>
>http://www.raisedbar.net/petition.htm
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: jsonar-bounces at jsonar.org [mailto:jsonar-bounces at jsonar.org] 
>On Behalf
>Of Chris Smart
>Sent: 20 October 2009 16:34
>To: blind_musicians at yahoogroups.com
>Cc: jsonar at jsonar.org; blind-recordists at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [Jsonar] Plug-in Accessibility
>
>Hi folks.
>Apologies in advance for the long post, but I'm running out of
>options here and am hoping you DAW veterans can suggest something I
>haven't considered.
>
>I'm taking the mastering course through Berklee Online, and they
>want us to use iZotope Ozone 4.
>
>Has anybody else here experimented at all with this plug-in in
>Sonar or Sound Forge? You can get a demo from www.izotope.com by
>the way.
>
>It's own interface is not accessible, and, when I bring it up in
>Sonar, the preset list doesn't display either, just one item shows
>up, "default".  That's helpful.  Save and Delete preset buttons
>show up, but not the all-important LOAD button.  I haven't yet been
>able to get some eyeballs on that issue.
>
>Moving on to the parameters in Sonar's Track Inspector.  Awhile
>back, iZotope told me that all parameters are exposed and
>available. "Great" I thought, except that there are almost 400 of
>them!!
>
>At least they are named inteligently, but when I finally get to the
>parameter list in Track Inspector, through the reassign control
>function, I have no way of jumping around this huge list.  Page up
>and down don't seem to jump larger amounts.  As you can imagine,
>finding and then adjusting each control individually in this way is
>extremely time-consuming, and hardly the interactive experience you
>would want.  Setting up a multi-band compressor would involve
>finding half a dozen or more parameters in that list, finding each
>one, adjusting it, then moving on to finding the next, adjusting
>it, etc.  I am invisioning this literally taking hours! If
>mastering is both an art and a science, the science part is rapidly
>taking over.
>
>My other thought about how to approach this involves
>DirectiXer.  It still exists, but i can't get ahold of it's author
>to see if I can get a registered copy.
>
>I installed the demo of version 2.5, loaded in Ozone and checked
>the "use generic interface" option.  I can bring up the huge
>parameter list in Sound Forge and editing parameters seems to work
>fine. Overall, this seems a little more functional and usable,
>except that when I hit enter to process my audio, the results are
>no different. That is, none of the changes I made to plugin
>parameters seem to have been applied to the audio, even though
>Sound Forge crunched away at it for a time.
>
>This is discouraging in the extreme, and I'm half a week behind in
>my course work already.  I was hoping at the very least to be able
>to bring up parameters quickly, assign them to the data wheel on my
>TranZport and at least be able to hear changes in the audio as I
>move the controller, getting back some degree of interactivity.
>
>I'm asking here if I've forgotten any other ways of accessing
>plug-in parameters. Yes, I know I can use all the great effects
>that ship With Sonar Producer, but I don't want to abandon the
>software I've paid for just yet, or write my proff asking for
>alternative arrangements, write iZotope asking for a refund,
>etc.  *sigh*
>
>Later on in the course, we're supposed to be using iZotope RX,
>their noise reduction and audio restoration suite. Again, this is
>another extremely powerful tool I'd love to have at my disposal,
>especially after completion of the course, when I try to find work
>doing this stuff.
>
>So, before I abandon iZotope products and start all my
>letter-writing, including to Berklee's Disability Services people
>to let them know that software requirements for the course are not
>accessible by students who are blind, is there anything at all I
>can try?
>
>Oh, I forgot one thing ... the plug-in files for Ozone are in XML
>format.  It's crude, but can I edit these in a text editor, reload
>the preset, and hear the results?
>
>Thank you for reading and for any suggestions you may have.
>
>Chris
>P.S. Yes, I know, I should have been more diligent investigating
>this stuff ahead of time. Lesson learned!
>
>
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