Hi John, Thank you for your nice message. Hopefully, Glen will come through with some better labels. From my experience as a programmer, I would think that would be a straightforward task for him. Don't hesitate to email me if I can be of assistance. Good luck with Crystal! Cheers, James ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Robinson" <jbr100uk@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <directixer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 3:37 PM Subject: [DZR] Re: Using Crystal 2.3 with Directixer's generic interface > Hi James and thank you very much for the detailed reply. I suspected the > problem I was having with the controls was something like the way you > describe, but, not being able to compare Directixer's generic interface > with Crystal's graphical one, I couldn't verify this without sighted > assistance. This is exactly what you have provided. Now that I have > independent evidence that many of Crystal's controls are not labelled and > those that are are not particularly meaningful to the non-developer, I will > indeed write to Glen and outline my problem. I am not a programmer myself, > but I hope it won't be too much trouble to do exactly what you > suggest. Crystal seems such an amazing product and it really seems a pity > to be limited to sounds other people have designed, just because of a few > missing labels! > > Many thanks once again for your detailed explanations and your offer to > help if you can. > > Yours sincerely, > > John Robinson > > > > At 13:37 21/07/2003 -0700, you wrote: > >Hi John, > > > >I just loaded the Crystal VST into Chainer and looked at the generic user > >interface for Crystal along with its graphical user interface. In the > >generic user interface, I see many controls that have no labels. Many of > >these controls represent nodes in Crystal's envelopes. These controls tend > >to come in pairs. The first control in the pair has a label. The value of > >this first control is the y-axis (vertical) position of the node in the > >envelope. The control that follows has no label. The value of this second > >control is the x-axis (horizontal) position of the node in the envelope. > >The envelopes have nine nodes. So, there are nine pairs in a row for a > >given envelope. After the ninth pair, there is a sequence of unlabeled > >controls. Each of these selects the shape -- linear, etc. -- of the segment > >between two nodes in the envelope. > > > >The labels are mostly abbreviations that map to the graphical user > >interface. So, for example, Voice1FEnv maps to the Voice1 tab, the Filter > >section, and the envelope for that filter. > > > >The graphical user interface has tabs for each of the three voices, Voice1, > >Voice2, Voice3 and a tab for the Modulation page and a tab for the Mixer > >page. Each voice page has three main sections: filter, oscillator, and > >amplitude. The filter and amplitude sections each have envelopes. The > >labels for the generic controls use the letter A for amplitude envelope > >nodes -- Voice2AEnv, for example -- and the letter F for filter envelope > >nodes. > > > >Is that helpful, at all? > > > >I'm not an expert with Crystal; but, maybe I can help if you have questions > >about specific controls. It might be worth sending an email to the > >developer of Crystal, Glenn. He seems like a good guy. Maybe he can add > >better labels for the controls in the generic user interface. > > > >Regards, > > > >James > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "John Robinson" <jbr100uk@xxxxxxxxxxx> > >To: "Directixer mailing list" <directixer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 5:15 AM > >Subject: [DZR] Using Crystal 2.3 with Directixer's generic interface > > > > > > > Hi everyone. I've recently joined this list and find Directixer a truly > > > outstanding product. As a blind person using screen reading software to > > > speak the contents of the screen, it enables me to use VST plugins within > > > Cakewalk Sonar 2.2. What is more, Directixer's generic interface makes > > > some VST plugins with relatively simple interfaces much more accessible to > > > my JAWS for Windows screen reader than they would otherwise have been - > > > really well done for including this feature. > > > > > > My current problem, however, is that I recently downloaded the free > >Crystal > > > softsynth from www.greenoak.com/crystal and installed it into Directixer > >to > > > use under Sonar 2.2. As mentioned before, I have to use Directixer's > > > generic interface rather than Crystal's default one to enable my screen > > > reader to work with it. The difficulty I am now having is that the > >Crystal > > > user guide is written presuming that everyone will be using Crystal's > > > default interface. No mention is made of Directixer and how to use it > > > using Directixer's generic interface. What is more, although some of > > > Crystal's controls are given names inside Directixer's generic interface, > > > many appear to be spoken only as strings of numbers which is not very > > > helpful to put it mildly! > > > > > > My question, therefore, is this: > > > Is there anyone out there with experience of using Crystal with > > > Directixer's generic interface enabled, rather than Crystal's default > > > one? If so, I would very much appreciate an explanation of how best to do > > > this. > > > > > > Many thanks in advance for any help you can provide. > > > > > > Yours sincerely, > > > > > > John Robinson > > > > > > ===================================================================== > > > Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/directixer/ > > > Unsubscribe: mailto:directixer-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?body=unsubscribe > > > Admin: mailto:kkm@xxxxxxxxx > > > ===================================================================== > > > >===================================================================== > >Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/directixer/ > >Unsubscribe: mailto:directixer-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?body=unsubscribe > >Admin: mailto:kkm@xxxxxxxxx > >===================================================================== > > ===================================================================== > Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/directixer/ > Unsubscribe: mailto:directixer-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?body=unsubscribe > Admin: mailto:kkm@xxxxxxxxx > ===================================================================== > ===================================================================== Archive: //www.freelists.org/archives/directixer/ Unsubscribe: mailto:directixer-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?body=unsubscribe Admin: mailto:kkm@xxxxxxxxx =====================================================================