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MUSIC BUSINESS PRODUCTS FOR
THE BLIND
Website Links:
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Chirping Bat - ChirpingBat.com,
resellers of adaptive software and equipment for Blind and Dyslexic
persons, audio and music production software and equipment, main stream
computing software and equipment, and developers and dealers of both
commercial and custom software for Science and Business.
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Digifreq.com - Scott R.
Garrigus' DigiFreq - Free music technology news, reviews, tips and
techniques!
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Garrigus.com
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Sound Forge 6 Power - a guidebook for this popular audio editing
program.
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Rick Boggs
- The information provided here is intended to assist persons with
visual impairments with all important aspects of developing successful
careers in digital audio production. This information contains the most
recent data provided by Rick Boggs, a totally blind professional audio
producer in Los Angeles.
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Electronic Musician
Related Sites - Lots of good electronic-music related websites are
listed here.
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MusicXP.net - Advice and guidance
on setting up and tuning Windows XP for professional audio applications.
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ToneWise - Important! If you want
to use soft synths or other plug-ins, make sure that you get a VST
"wrapper". A VST Wrapper takes a VST plugin and creates an identical
DirectX version of that plugin. Why would you want to do this? So that
Sonar, Sound forge, and other host applications can see it and use it.
Try Directixer - it's shareware. Be sure to check the "use generic
interface" checkbox for each VST plugin you wrap with it.
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Korg Triton Studio Manuals - (Basic
Guide) (Parameter
Guide) (Voice
Name List)
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Key Sounds - Creators of
innovative music related products.
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Firewire vs.
USB2.0 - Question: USB 2.0 is faster than Firewire...right? Answer:
No, actually FireWire is faster than USB 2.0.
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Roland gear
manuals in PDF format.
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The New
International Manual of Braille Music Notation
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audioMIDI.com
has an audio newsletter (Podcast) that will keep you up-to-date with
cutting-edge audio and midi recording technologies.
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Indie Bible - 8,500 places to
promote your music.
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DancingDots.com - Dancing Dots
adapts and develops technology solutions for blind musicians and those
who educate and support them. Scan printed scores, listen to results or
convert to Braille music notation. Play your musical ideas into your PC.
Convert to print notation, Braille score or audio CD. Braille music
courses/educational resources. They resell a wide range of assistive
technology such as JAWS as well as mainstream notation software and
audio production hardware, software and accessories.
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GOODFEEL Braille Music
Translator - Are you a blind singer or instrumentalist who needs to
have braille scores quickly? Are you an educator or rehabilitation
professional serving blind musicians who has no time to learn to be a
braille music transcriber? GOODFEEL can help you. GOODFEEL automatically
converts several kinds of music files to braille - the same files used
to print the score for sighted players. To prepare and transcribe these
files with GOODFEEL, you do not need to know how to read braille music;
however, you should know how to read print music notation and how to use
Windows-based software.
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Clone Ensemble - really cool
music plug-in site. All of the programs are available in versions that
will work with screen readers. To get the blind-friendly version just
email the owner at:
trevor@cloneensemble.com
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Paper Music - Music
transcription and consultation services for the blind and visually
impaired.
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Best Practice - A FREE music
software program that allows you to take just about any audio file and
slow it down for practice. Cool Stuff - a gotta have! [click
here for more info]
Best Practice
The program allows you to take just about any audio file and slow it
down for practice. You can loop parts of songs and pitch-shift as well
AND it sounds amazing! Check it out at:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~mp2004/bp
Keyboard Commands:
Speed:
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F5: Increase speed
with 10%
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Shift F5: Decrease
speed with 10%
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F6: Increase speed
with 1%
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Shift F6: Decrease
speed with 1%
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F7: Increase speed
with 0.1%
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Shift F7: Decrease
speed with 0.1%
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F8: Set speed t100%
Pitch
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F2: Detune +1
semitone
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Shift F2: Detune -1
semitone
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F3: Detune +1/100th
of a semitone
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Shift F3: Detune
-1/100th of a semitone
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F4: Reset all
detuning
Volume:
Playback Control:
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Q: Previous Track
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W: Next Track
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P: Play CD
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Numeric Keypad 0:
Pause/Continue
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Backspace: Restart
from beginning
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R: Refresh CD (Read
Table of Contents)
Karaoke:
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M: Toggle Karaoke
mode on/off
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A: Move Karaoke
slider left
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S: Move Karaoke
slider right
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F: Decrease bass
pass-through range
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G: Increase bass
pass-through range
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J: Decrease treble
pass-through range
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K: Increase treble
pass-through range
How to make loops:
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The first three
read-only edit boxes are the HH, MM, and SS (hours, minutes,
seconds) of the loop start time.
The next three are the HH, MM, and SS of the stop time.
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Play until you get
to where you want to start and press numpad 0 (zero).
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Press Alt-N (loop
time now) - this will populate the first three boxes with the current
play time.
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Then, hit numpad 0
again and stop when you want to end the loop.
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Press Alt-W to set
the loop end time in the other three boxes.
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Check the play in
loop mode checkbox (Alt-L) and press numpad 0 to start looping.
FYI, the "Karaoke"
feature is ok, but not always as good of a result.
Sign up for the MIDI-MAG Listserv
For those that want to get the benefit of
other blind musician and computer users, you should consider signing up
for some email lists. You will find them most informative!
To subscribe to the
MIDI-MAG listserv for people interested in adopting or developing MIDI
and audio software and gear for use by the blind:
Send an E-mail message
with a blank subject line to:
listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu
In the body of your
message write:
subscribe midi-mag {your name}
After your subscription
is confirmed, you'll begin to receive messages from the list. To post a
message, address it to
midi-mag@maelstrom.stjohns.edu
After you're
subscribed, you may want to set your subscription option to digest. This
option sends you one digest message per day which contains all list
messages for that 24 hour period. To set this option, send message with
blank subject line to
listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu. In the body of your message write:
set midi-mag digest.
Sign up for the Dancing Dots
Listserv
This list is to discuss topics pertaining to Dancing Dots products, like
the CakeTalking scripts for Sonar, etc. To sign up go to:
www.dancingdots.com
To send a message to the list just email:
ddots-l@freelists.org
Sign
up for the Blind ProTools users list
This list is an open discussion for Blind
users of Digidesign's ProTools within the Macintosh environment. It's a
place for blind producers, engineers, and hobbyists to get together and
share ideas, information, and strategies that will increase a blind
person's use of ProTools, increasing their productivity in order to make
their experience more effective and enjoyable.
Sign up here:
blindptlist-subscribe@topica.com
Yamaha Motif line of keyboards mailing list
motif-help-subscribe@pdaudio.net
Link
to Yamaha Motif
Training Book
A useful Motif
utility you may need! - you can copy a voice to a selectable (1-4)
part of a Performance or a selectable (1-16) part of a Song Mix,
preserving ALL the voice settings, making the voice sound in Performance
or Mix Mode EXACTLY as it sounded in Voice mode. Even preserves
arpeggios!!! Works only in PC (Windows). Supports Motif Classic/S90/Motif
Rack/Motif ES!
FTP Voyager 10 (an FTP Tool)
If you are a serious computer user and/or
a business owner that needs to get things out to your customers over the
internet then you might need a FTP tool at some point.
There many of them out there on the
market and several are supposed to work with JFW, but I have found that
the only one that really works well is FTP Voyager (Version 10).
Unfortunately, that is no longer the
newest version, so you should download it from the following link:
http://www.ftpvoyager.com/oldarchive/fv10007.exe
After you buy this program, you should go
to: http://www.snowmanradio.com
and buy the great scripts for this program. These scripts make this
program 100% accessible. With out them the program is 75% accessible, but
with out the Snowman scripts you don’t get any info from the status bar
and so don’t know how much of your file has been uploaded to the FTP site.
Click
here for some example setups
of Music Gear and Music Software. This comparison was done by Joey
Stuckey for Dancing Dots to
compare some of the most popular music software, hardware and related gear
for blind computer/musician/users.
Windows
XP Service Pack 2 Alert!
Important information you need to read before you install XP Service Pack
2. Click here for
details...
Make sure your video card
works with JAWs. Click
here for
details...
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