Re: Sound programs that would be good with screen readers
- From: "Tom Lange" <trlange@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 15:41:20 -0700
Hi Carol,
I'm really interested in some sort of multi-track recording software, too, and
have investigated this a little bit. In addition to Sonar and the other
programs that have been mentioned, there's also one called Audacity which is
supposed to work okay.
Be forewarned, though, that obtaining and installing accessible recording
software is only part of the battle. If you have a modern PC which has its
sound chips built into its motherboard, or if you use a cheap sound card which
has no real processing power, you will run into a serious problem while
attempting to record, as I have. The problem is called latency.
When the latency problem rears its ugly head, as it no doubt will, you'll find
that there's a significant delay between the instant when a note is played or
sung and when you actually hear it through your headphones or speakers. On my
system, the delay is at least a half-second or more. Even if you decide not to
monitor your recording, you will run into it again when laying down the second
and subsequent tracks, and it's going to be a real bear to synchronize
everything. Ask any serious recording enthusiast who uses a computer-based
setup and you'll be told in no uncertain terms that the only practical ways
around the latency issue involve installing and using a high-end sound card
with multiple inputs and outputs, and a serious tune-up session to reduce the
number of running background processes in order to further reduce the load on
the computer's processor.
That's about all I can tell you since that's what I've gathered so far in my
research into this, and I don't want to stray further off topic than I already
have and arouse the ire of the list moderator.
Good luck with this. Write me off-list if you get up and running. I want to
hear all about your setup.
Cheers!
Tom
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