Jason, if you like, send me an email off list at: cs2005@xxxxxxxxxx I've learned that the more patient I am with the tutorials, the more I learn and I would love to share whatever I can with you. So many on this list have shared so much with me both directly and indirectly and a chance to do the same for someone else is simply awesome. > -----Original Message----- > From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Jason > Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 11:33 PM > To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [ddots-l] Re: : Am i in over my head > > Thank you but that is the problem in of it's self. I would say most if not > all of the jargon does not make sense to me. Is there an intro to sound > book, website, or something where I could learn what perimeters or > basically > anything else discussed is. Even the titles of the different lessons > mean > nothing to me. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Clive Lansink" <Clive@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Jason" <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 7:32 PM > Subject: [ddots-l] Re: : Am i in over my head > > > Jason I think your best bet is to work through the lessons step by step, > then contact the list when something doesn't work or doesn't make sense. > > But first, it's very important that you ensure the CakeTalking scripts are > correctly installed. The instructions for this are very good but still > it's > important that you work through all the steps and make sure things are > working correctly, or wierd things can happen. > > Another point, I too am a lap top user and although I run CakeTalking on a > desk top, I typically have it set to the JAWS lap top keyboard setup. Now > I > don't know if this is fixed but I discovered after quite a lot of > frustration that the CakeTalking scripts would only work correctly if JAWS > was set to the standard desktop keyboard layout. Even the help key didn't > work as described in the lessons until I figured that out. > > Good luck. > > Clive Lansink > Email: Clive@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Phone: +64 9 520-4242 > Mobile: +64 21 663-999 > Fax: +64 21 789-150 > > -----Original message----- > From: "Jason" <Doorish_jason@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [ddots-l] Re: : Am i in over my head > Reply-to: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 19:31:30 -0500 > > I have all the stuff I need. I have cake talking but I don't always > understand the jargon within even the lessons. I'm a musician not a sound > person. Anyway I can get the terms in the lessons defined as to what they > are and why I would need to do them? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Erkens" <pje@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 7:15 PM > Subject: [ddots-l] Re: : Am i in over my head > > > > Hi Jason, > > > > To get started, you need: > > 1. a good pc, that is 1 gigahertz or faster pentium. > > 2. jaws 5.1 or higher. > > 3. sonar itself. > > 4. either Victor Tsaran's free sonar scripts for jaws, or the cake > talking > > scripts made by dancing dots. > > 5. A good soundcard. > > I can well imagine that you want a beginner's tutorial and I attempted > to > > write down a few basics, but I found out I was duplicating something > that > > has already been written. So I did away with it altogether and therefore > > I'm giving you this advice. > > > > Please go to www.dancingDots.com and take a peak at their site. There's > a > > demo mp3 file there, from which you can hear what is possible with > sonar, > > and how easily it is acomplished. However, to be honest, I must tell you > > that the guy doing this is a very experienced audio engineer and we > can't > > compete with him in this respect. Yet, it does give you a good > impression > > on what is possible. Only after some weeks of experimenting will you > know > > how to do things and do them well. > > > > If you then buy CT, you won't regret it because they will give you an > > excellent manual, which is mostly a tutorial. A friend of mine, who > owned > > CT long b4 I did, sent me its manual, which is a Word document. It is > such > > an amazingly inspiring document, that I couldn't let go of it even > though > > we were going to Turkey for a holiday. Because I wanted to keep reading, > I > > converted it into a bunch of mp3 files by letting jaws read it and > > recording that with an audio tool, so that I could take it with me on my > > mp3 player, which is what I did. > > > > All of us have had to start from scratch, from the very beginning, and I > > know from my own experience that the CT stuff is a very good starting > > point. Or if you don't want to buy the stuff before you have seen the > > tutorials, why not write to dancing dots and ask them if they can send > the > > document off to you so you can get inspired. > > > > Hope this helps. > > Regards, > > Paul. > > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- > > ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] > > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > > ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > ** and in the Subject line type > > ** unsubscribe > > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > > ** immediately-following link:- > > ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] > > ** or send a message, to ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the > > Subject:- faq > > > > > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** unsubscribe > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > ** immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] > ** or send a message, to > ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe] > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** unsubscribe > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > ** immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subjectúq] > ** or send a message, to > ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** unsubscribe > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > ** immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] > ** or send a message, to > ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.8/35 - Release Date: 6/30/2005 ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subjectúq] ** or send a message, to ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq