[ddots-l] Re: How accessible is the Garritan Personal Orchestra?

Dan as always, excellent post!!  Always enjoy reading your posts!

Regards, Phil Muir
P J Muir Productions
Music And Audio Production
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Band website:
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Rugman" <danrugman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 10:59 AM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: How accessible is the Garritan Personal Orchestra?


> Mat
>
> I can understand that you might find it a little daunting, but to be blunt, 
> it will only take you 
> a day of sitting down and carefully going through the documentation and 
> trying a few things out, 
> to gain access to an extremely useful tool.
>
> You asked if it was "plug and play", I'm afraid there is no such thing as 
> plug and play software, 
> especially it you want to use it well.  Did you learn how to use Sonar in 
> five minutes?  Even 
> Microsoft Word takes a long time to learn if you want to use all the advanced 
> features.  Frankly, 
> anyone who's serious about music and technology needs to face the fact that 
> they'll need to spend 
> time getting to know their equipment, even if it's a microphone - you don't 
> just point and hit 
> record!
>
> If you have any doubts about it then you should really visit the web pages 
> dedicated to it.  But 
> perhaps these extracts from the manual will help to convince you.
>
> "Having Hot spot clicker on hand may simply eliminate, or significantly 
> reduce, those incredibly 
> frustrating situations where you may've previously been
> forced to await the arrival of either a blindness agency I T consultant, or 
> for customized scripts 
> to be released ... Of course, you can make jaws do a mouse click at any 
> location you want, as long 
> as you know where that location is. But, actually implementing a set of
> robust scripts to do it, complete with a speech friendly front end user 
> interface, requires a few 
> steps that are offten a bit daunting even to the moderately
> experienced scriptor. So, this free set of scripts is designed to facilitate 
> the process, and is 
> my gesture toward those who find themselves in situations
> like that, ..."
> http://personal.adiis.net/snowman/HotSpotClicker.html
>
> Dan
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Matt Brown" <matthew_brown@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 9:23 AM
> Subject: [ddots-l] Re: How accessible is the Garritan Personal Orchestra?
>
>
>> Well I shall stand corrected then, but when I took a look at the info put 
>> together on HSC, it 
>> said, and I paraphrase, "Steep learning curve".
>>
>> The implication was that there was a lot to it and in order to get the most 
>> out of it it would be 
>> necessary to take some considerable time to learn how to use it.
>>
>> Are you saying I can just install and go? Just like that? No learning curve 
>> at all? Literally 
>> plug and play?
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Phil Muir" <ddots@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 8:31 AM
>> Subject: [ddots-l] Re: How accessible is the Garritan Personal Orchestra?
>>
>>
>>> Mat wrote: I am still not convinced about the usefulness of HSC. I 
>>> understand it is
>>> quite a complex system to master, and that considerable knowledge of Jaws
>>> and window-based software architecture is required to make it work
>>> successfully.
>>>
>>> Phil replied: rubbish.  You clearly haven't taken a look at HSC at all. If 
>>> you had then, you 
>>> would be making such ridiculous statements like this. HSC is a very 
>>> powerful set of Jaws scripts 
>>> that can be plugged into Jaws. Creating HSC sets is a breeze.  Add to that 
>>> the fact that it's a 
>>> system that has been proven to work across systems and has very powerful 
>>> features such as colour 
>>> recognition. For example, if a button changes colour then, you can have HSC 
>>> speak a specific 
>>> message such as "button x enabled." Also, if your in the fortunate position 
>>> of having sighted 
>>> assistance then, you can create a huge amount of keyboard accessibility, 
>>> within minutes. For 
>>> example, I have almost completed HSC sets for a number of plug-ins for 
>>> Sonar 7 that would 
>>> otherwise be totally inaccessible for us.
>>>
>>> Mat wrote: I am not a programmer of any kind, and the people I am working 
>>> with know
>>> nothing about Jaws apart from the basics. They don't have time to learn HSC
>>> and how it works, and neither do I.
>>>
>>> Phil replied: I wouldn't say I am much of a programmer ether.  That's the 
>>> point with HSC.  You 
>>> don't have to be.  You run a wizard and that's it. Sure you can do more 
>>> advance things with it 
>>> if you know how to write functions however, even some of those are pree 
>>> written and can be 
>>> chosen from a list.
>>>
>>> Mat wrote: We're looking at a combination of Kore and the Auto-hotkeys 
>>> software because
>>> it seems the easiest option. Whether it will work or not we don't know.
>>>
>>> Phil replied: that's fine however, don't write something off that you 
>>> haven't bothered to 
>>> thoroughly research before commenting.  There's nothing to stop you 
>>> installing HSC and running 
>>> the HSC sets that have already been created.
>>>
>>> Regards, Phil Muir
>>> P J Muir Productions
>>> Music And Audio Production
>>> URL:
>>> www.philmuir.com/
>>> Band website:
>>> www.steelstringmusic.co.uk/
>>> Band my Space Site:
>>> www.myspace.com/steelstringmusic
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