Dan as always, excellent post!! Always enjoy reading your posts! 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 ----- 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 >>> >>> ** 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 Free Edition. 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