[Jsonar] Plug-in Accessibility

[Sina Bahram]

Why couldn't you simply have jaws fire off a com object which could contain
this interface, then martial the results back to the script?
 
Take care,
Sina

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From: jsonar-bounces at jsonar.org [mailto:jsonar-bounces at jsonar.org] On Behalf
Of Victor Tsaran
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 11:05 PM
To: JSonar -- JAWS Scripts for Sonar list
Subject: Re: [Jsonar] Plug-in Accessibility

Hi Chris,
This is indeed discouraging. I always felt like Track Inspector is not 
really the best tool for dealing with automated parameters. I could 
build a feature in JSonar that would allow you to pick from the list of 
all available parameters, but JAWS does not allow me to build an 
interface where it would be possible not only pick but also operate 
those parameters.
Do you have an access to any sighted person so that you could create an 
hSC set?

On 10/20/2009 8:34 AM, Chris Smart wrote:
> 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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