[ddots-l] Re: Hello My name is James question about motif and fatom

  • From: "Sarah" <kales2@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:06:27 -0800

Actually I want to know that to as 'm not a very good keyboard player and if I 
need to play something in b-flat I'm in big trouble. so transposing in half 
steps wold be a good thing.

> Not sure. I don't really mess with transposing.
> 
> Omar Binno
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: James Murphy
> To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 12:44 AM
> Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Hello My name is James question about motif
> and fatom 
> 
> 
> Omar, your the man,  thanks so much for that info.
> 
> I'll bake other people's opinions as well.
> 
> Thanks again Omar.    Omar, can you assign, transpose button, on the
> motif?? 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Omar Binno
> To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 12:31 AM
> Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Hello My name is James question about motif
> and fatom 
> 
> 
> As far as the interface on the keyboards goe, both can be navigated
> by a blind user. If you can get  sighted person to help you learn
> your way around the fantom, it's doable. You're at an advantage with
> the Motif, because there are more blind users with that keyboard than
> there are with the fantom. I've used both with Sonar, and Yamaha is,
> in my personal opinion, better with Sonar, because Roland boards and
> modules dont work with Sonar from song mode, but rather from their
> stupid performance mode, which gets extremely frustrating at times.  
> 
> Omar Binno
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: James Murphy
> To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 11:55 PM
> Subject: [ddots-l] Hello My name is James question about motif and
> fatom 
> 
> 
> Can anyone,  Tell me which keyboard is more user friendly for blind
> people?  I'm not talking about the sound, I know which sounds
> better," I want to know  which keyboard, is easier to navigate around
> and going in and out of menus.  An which one  is more user friendly,
> with CakeWalk???    
> 
> One more question,?  On the Motif," can you assign a button to make
> it transpose, half steps, instead of going in to the utilities menus
> to transpose?  Can I assign a button to do that??  
> 
> I know there is a transpose button, on board the fantom.
> But which Keyboard, is more user friendly to do splits and edit your
> sounds? 
> 
> An I'm  asking, those of you, who have both keyboards, or that's
> familiar with both keyboards, and/or who have,"  had hands-on both
> boards as a blind person??  
> Please Advise??  Because I have a choice on which keyboard to
> purchase, and I'll be using it for both," sequencing, and live
> performances.  
> 
> Thanks so much for all of your responses in advance!

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