O OK. I was wondering how you might have gotten the new one to work, at least
the older one was somewhat usable.
Unfortunately each company owns the source to their code, and not many are
willing to change or alter their interfaces to make things work with screen
readers.
Many of these library producers get what's called UI frameworks form companies
that specialize in making these, so the amount of coding time for the UI is
greatly reduced. For that and other reasons, they really don't go out of their
way to alter the UI frameworks to play nice with access technologies.
HTH, DJX
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The Play Engine version. However, I can't get to the Wordbuilder Interface and
its parameters without sighted help. Isn't there someone who has the source
code to make all the instrument interfaces accessible to JAWS? For example, in
addition to the graphics, there can be some text-based icons out there?
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This is normal, when sonar is not in focus, it stops the engine if not in
playback; try it on recording, but I think it will still record even if it's no
longer in focus.
Not sure I understand what you mean about jaws and input echo. Unless you have
a good reason, you should keep input echo off on all tracks, since you know
what you are going to be doing/recording. It's not like you have to add a
realtime effect to your voice, or do you?
Also, out of interest, are you doing a tutorial on the play engine word
builder, or the older kontakt based one? I was under the impression the new
play word builder is built-in to the engine (no pun intended), but since you
are talking about alt tabbing away to type in the word builder, I'm curious as
to which you are using.
Regards, DJX
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Also, I've noticed something interesting. When I tab away from the Sonar screen
while I'm playing back something, the sound that I'm playing turns off while
JAWS is announcing which screen I'm on, but then turns back on when I tab back
to Sonar. Does this same thing happen while recording? Is it like a pause
button? Also, to clarify things. When I record my voiceover and Instrument
tracks, JAWS is heard in the Input Monitor Echo. That's what I want to turn off
while I'm typing in "Wordbuilder" of Eastwest Quantum Leap Symphonic Choirs.
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OK, then don't record jaws, just arm the voiceover audio track and the midi
track for the synth. But if you are doing an audio tutorial for blind
individuals, not hearing screen reader feedback, unless you plan to speak all
the dialogs or responses yourself, would be a bit interesting. Kind of like
watching a video tutorial where the instructor says click here, but no one can
see where he/she is clicking because there's no video! ;)
HTH, DJX
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I don't actually want to have JAWS in my recording, just the softsynth and my
voiceovers.
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Hi, just record your entire tutorial to separate tracks, say one for you voice,
one for jaws, and the other for soft synth (just the midi track, not the soft
synth audio).
Then, once you've recorded jaws and your voice and the midi parts, you can go
in to those areas where you are not talking but playing, and you can mute your
voice track using automation. As Chris suggested, read about it in the ct
manual if you haven't used automation before.
HTH, DJX
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I actually do record everything to separate tracks, recording each one one at a
time. The muting is where I have the problem, because it seems that when I try
to do it with Manual Mute when recording, I can still hear what's going on in
the voiceover track, when that's the one I want to be muted while I'm playing
the keys in the instrument track. This way I don't hear the mechanical sound of
the keys being played, only the sound of the instrument.
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It's easier to just record everything and make those edits later, as long as
you are recording to separate tracks. Then you can use automation to mute and
unmute tracks.
HTH, DJX
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Hi, it's Annabelle.
I'm planning on making a tutorial for a virtual instrument, and I want to find
out, how can I mute my voiceover track before playing the keys on my keyboard
to demonstrate the instrument? More importantly, how would I mute the track
while recording within Sonar 8.5 Producer Edition? I also want JAWS to
automatically mute when the voiceover track is muted. Note that I have JAWS
running on the Soundmax Digital Audio soundcard built in to my computer, while
my voiceover track and the instrument track are running through the MOTU 896HD
Audio Interface.
