Thanks Ross. Well, I don't think I'll bet on it and hold my breath hoping I didn't throw away more money. But I hope I'm wrong.
Regards, Tom On 11/26/2011 8:59 PM, Ross McGregor wrote:
Hi tom, Yes we've looked at ozone 5 advanced and ozone 5. They have implemented some quite good keyboard access and have a key commands list. However, at least in Cubase the tab and enter keys don't work. So in other words they've enacted quite a few keys accept tab and enter, which of course is pretty useless. I've written them and they've been able to reproduce the problem and they said it is on the developer's list to action. But no indication of time as to when it will be done. In theory, you would think that would be an easy thing to fix. So I'm keeping in touch with the guy. I get the impression they are making an honest attempt to achieve access, but of course it's farely low on their list of priorities right now. I wouldn't be critical of them in any way, as my impression is that they are kean to look at access and have a commitment to that, but it may not be as much of a commitment as we would wish. But it comes down again to what financial returns they may get for that effort. I was using ozone 3, and we're now looking at creating the same access for ozone 5, as I never really used ozone 4 much dew to my work load. The discount price runs out on December 1, so I have to decide will I purchase 5 and us access it with our macros. Which is a fare bit of work, but it would be easier to macro if the enter and tab keys were working, but then again I don't know how long that may take. With the AHK macros I had good access to most of it. Yes the pre sets, they keep in an xml file I think it is in my docs. So we copy over the actual pre sets I want in to the load save pre sets dialogue in Cubase and can access them that way. It's a very nice plug in, but I'm afraid the access news at the moment is a bit gloomy. I also have their Nectar voice plug in and it suffers from the same problem. They told me their rx2 de-noise plug in, is the one that has the most amount of access they've been able to implement and I'm thinking of buying that. It's an excellent de-noiser, however to really get the best use out of it, you have to be able to see it's spectrum display, which of course we can't access. It gives you a spectral display of the exact frequency area of your noise then you can target the envelope of your de-noise to fit that spectrum exactly, and get amazing de-noising with no affects on the source audio. All their products are real quality stuff. Ross. -----Original Message----- From: realmusicians-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:realmusicians-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Kingston Sent: Sunday, 27 November 2011 12:21 PM To: realmusicians@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [realmusicians] Anyone try the new Izotope Ozone 5? I downloaded and installed the trial and it's the most spaced out interface I've ever seen. I ran it in Sound Forge and it's like a window that overlays the Sound Forge plug-in window. I see no presets in the preset list and nothing else on the screen until I start tabbing around. And even then it's weird. When I found the presets list the only way I could select the next one in the list was to tab again and then down arrow. I had to do this for each one. And getting into the options was a project too. I wanted to do this because they have a keyboard shortcut selection and I assumed it wasn't set to "full" by default because I found little else via the keyboard, let alone anything vaguely resembling logic. The kicker was I could change or activate anything other than the keyboard button. I got it into focus, pressed spacebar, enter, clicked on it, and got nothing in response to any of these methods. I'm just wondering if I'm missing something or it's another case of developers that know nothing about accessibility trying to make something accessible without consulting any knowledgeable source. Regards, Tom
