[ddots-l] Re: full info on the Cakewalk Vstudio 700 from harmony central

Have faith, Neville.  Almost exactly a year ago, the "Inclusion
through Music 2007" conference at the Royal College of Music in
London, laid down significant accessibility foundations with a number
of developers and manufacturers of music products.
 
Speaking as a Dancing Dots dealer here in the U.K., I can tell you
that the last 10 years or so has been a major uphill struggle.
However this year we have seen a significant increase in the number of
students going to college and university to study music.  Many of
these are students developed their talents at school with the aid of
GOODFEEL, Caketalking and Sibelius Speaking.
 
It is also apparent that an increasing number of school districts over
here are making decisions to purchase district licenses based on
whether or not the product can be accessed by their blind and
partially sighted pupils.  That has got a growing number of companies
feeling the proverbial pinch and looking at the accessible side of
their products.  No names, no pack drill, but I do know some members
of this list who are assisting companies develop accessible products.
 
So hang in there.  I'm confident you will see some exciting
developments in the next year.
 
George Bell.

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Subject: [ddots-l] Re: full info on the Cakewalk Vstudio 700 from
harmony central



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[mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Phil Muir
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 2:59 PM
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Subject: [ddots-l] Re: full info on the Cakewalk Vstudio 700 from
harmony central

 

I here ya.  On the other hand, I note that in order to control the
gains on this control surface, you have to do that from a software
dialog box.  Not sure if that will be accessible either.  If this has
been developed by Roland, and they have implemented this in a similar
way to V-Vocal then accessibility to put it mildly could be well,
interesting.


Regards, Phil Muir
 
P J Muir Productions,
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        From: Damon Fibraio <mailto:dfibraio@xxxxxxxxxxx>  

        To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

        Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:48 PM

        Subject: [ddots-l] Re: full info on the Cakewalk Vstudio 700
from harmony central

         

        It's possible, but it seems like it is a glorified control
surface and audio interface for sonar. The only mention of displays
refer to a seven segment led for now time and a 2 line 13 character
display for markers and whatnot, but it runs off good old sonar. If I
had $4000, I'd wait until cT for sonar 8 came out and take a chance as
this seems like it would work well, but then again, I don't, so I'm
waiting anyway. <grin>

         

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        From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Phil Muir
        Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:25 PM
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        Subject: [ddots-l] Re: full info on the Cakewalk Vstudio 700
from harmony central

         

        Damon wrote: snip, I read up on this thing and I am floored.
And since it works around sonar 8 producer, bundles rapture with sonar
8's dimension pro and even includes a Roland fantom equivalent synth
onboard, would guess that this will be quite accessible.

        
        Phil replied: I wouldn't count on it.  Neither Tim Burgess or
others interested in accessibility have taken a look at it yet and so
are not in a position to comment.  My advice, don't spend any money
until some of us have had a chance to try it out.  For all we know,
this thing could have wraparound menus, lots of multipurpose menus
etc.

         

        Regards, Phil Muir
         
        P J Muir Productions,
        Music And Audio Production
        Telephone: US (615) 713-2021  
        UK+44-1747-821-794
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                ----- Original Message ----- 

                From: Damon Fibraio <mailto:dfibraio@xxxxxxxxxxx>  

                To: midimag@xxxxxxxxxxx 

                Cc: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

                Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:23 PM

                Subject: [ddots-l] full info on the Cakewalk Vstudio
700 from harmony central

                 

                The below link takes you to the press release for the
cakewalk/roland v-studio 700, the control surface, audio interface and
software that cakewalk is touting s the next big solution for
musicians. I read up on this thing and I am floored. And since it
works around sonar 8 producer, bundles rapture with sonar 8's
dimension pro and even includes a Roland fantom equivalent synth
onboard, would guess that this will be quite accessible. The price
tag, at $4000 hurts, but I wonder if this would convince me to upgrade
from my fw1884 since the hardware and software are integrated. Anyway,
here's the info as per the press release...

                 

        
http://aes.harmony-central.com/125AES/Content/Cakewalk/PR/Cakewalk-SON
AR-V-Studio-700.html

                 

                --

                Damon Fibraio

                screen names -- aol: dfibraio...msn
dfibraio@xxxxxxxxxxxx skype: dfibraio

                personal music site: http://www.keyboardguy.com.

                Band web site: http://www.thdband.com, myspace
http://www.myspace.com/thdtheband

                Internet Radio station: http://www.nhbradio.com

                Internet radio show Wednesday nights from 8 to 11 pm
eastern

                 

                
                
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