I don't do much with changing parameters -- I do pretty much all of that stuff through MIDI controller messages. Everything from Kurzweil up to the 2661 is blind accessible, because of the instrument maker's history. Ray Kurzweil wasn't looking to make musical instruments until Stevie Wonder thought of musical applications for the voice sampling system Ray was using. Since these instruments were designed with blind users in mind everything from the beginning (K250, K150, etc.) included the front panel status in their sysex messages. Applications like Kurlewin for Windows and Object Mover for the earlier Mac operating systems, Microsoft DOS, and the Atari ST could read those front panel values to the user. KDR, a program created by the Scramenti brothers, also would read that front panel info. Kurzweil's new owners, Samick, stopped including this information in the PC3X and later products. But should I want to I should be able to get the front panel data from all 13 of my 1000 series instruments and also the K2600ex. This can be useful for things like the chain linking function where the MIDI note stream is divided across multiple modules. So for instance, I could play a single layer sound on the Pro1/K1000 SE bank and have no note stealing across the playable range of any controller keyboard out there, with one exception. (The very rare Bielfus Performance Synthesizer has 128 keys, so I'd get note stealing on 8 voices if I played a piano or harp gliss, though the top and bottom notes wouldn't sound much like a piano anyway, as that's outside the range of the instrument by about 40 notes, slightly less when dealing with extended range pianos like the Bosendorfer Imperial) The cool part of this is that those modules are pretty cheap these days, and thanks to a very cool guy named Dr. David Brown (RIP, David) Kurzweil has made the upgrades available to anyone who either has or knows someone with a chip burner. These instruments are cool, but they're a lot more cool when upgraded all the way. And the 1000GX is pretty much unique, as it contains very nice samples of guitar and bass. (Which is why it shouldn't surprise you much that I have four of these modules) I haven't gotten a chance to integrate the bass station and a station into my rig. Besides the room for the studio, I'll need sighted assistance and several new cable snakes to get everything set up the way I want it. One of the reasons why I suspect a lot of blind folks go the software route is the complications of hardware scare them off. Not only do you need to set up the instrument, but there's cabling, getting levels, creating any program maps, and finding or creating a definition file for QWS. This last task is easier thanks to one of the members of the list, who created a program that can convert Cakewalk definitions to the much simpler QWS format. But changing your sounds also means updating the definition file, and that's a lot more bookkeeping. So that may be why many folks aren't either getting into hardware gear or programming their own sounds. (I've built my own subtractive synthesis sounds from the ground up, but I also don't do that much anymore, and though I understand some of the very basic stuff about FM synthesis I'm not going to try to build my own sounds, as just about every usable sound has been created already) The folks who create their own sounds are rare these days, unless you're talking about the C Sound crowd, where sound creation is a fundamental part of creating the music.
Sent from my HAL 9000 in transit to Jupiter -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Niklas Rittinghaus Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2019 6:44 PM To: QWS list <[email protected]> Subject: QWS List AW: Hello to the list Hi, wow Nicole, that’s a lot of gear. And I thought I have many stuff here Right now. There are still Things that I want to have but in some cases I am unsure if they are usable for blind People. People with sight have no Limits, but blind People have to look for what they take at best. Little machines like the volca series or the PO’s by teenage enginiring are cool because i can get something Maybe as a gift on Birthday or Christmas because of theier pricing, wich makes my parents other Family members happy, so they have some Gifts I can touch, instead of just Money or such. >From what I read, the bass Station II, the circuit and the circuit mono >Station by Novation could be usable for blinds, has anyone experiences with >them? And can somebody say something About the two OP devices by teenage >enginiring, the OP-1 and the OP-z? Can they be used as well? I hope it is okay >if I ask here, because like I said, in the whats app Group, the blind People >who use Hardware are very rare and I hope to find more People on here who are >blind as well and can help with such Questions Maybe. Best regards Niklas To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com for archived list posts, see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
