Tom.Gerhart@f210.n273.z1.fidonet.org (Tom Gerhart) (02/05/91)
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Sam,
I have a friend who is looking for a midi program that will work with
speech. I remember that you were talking about this subject a few months
ago, but I could not find the mesgs. thanks. tom G
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Internet: Tom.Gerhart@f210.n273.z1.fidonet.orgSam.Troia@f608.n107.z1.fidonet.org (Sam Troia) (02/05/91)
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Hi, Tom
Concerning MIDI programs that work with speech: I have successfully
used Texture to compose some forty compositions to date--it works
phenomenally well with speech. I also now have Sequencer Plus Gold but
so far have not played around with it much at all--although I intend to
do so sometime in the not-to-distant future. If your friend gets a
hold of Texture and wants any help, I'd be more than happy to do
whatever I can. After using this program very heavily for a year I
feel that I know the program inside out. It's a very intuitively
written piece of software.
--Your Alternative Uncle Sam
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Internet: Sam.Troia@f608.n107.z1.fidonet.orgJohn.Sanfilippo@f608.n107.z1.fidonet.org (John Sanfilippo) (02/06/91)
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TG> I have a friend who is looking for a midi program that will
TG> work with speech. ...
Let me jump in here if I may.
Hi Tom,
The two best I know of right now are 1) Texture 3.5 by Magnetic
Music and 2) Sequencer Plus Gold by Voyetra.
I find Texture a DARLING of an easy program to work with. It is
very straight forward and intuitive. You talk to it using 2 or 3
letter commands such as "Go Beat number" or Copy Track, or Copy
Pattern.
The specific note editing can be a bit of a challenge for speech
users like us, because they use a phantom cursor for that, but
one can learn to deal with that too. In fairness, let me advise
you that I've been using Texture for about 2 years and have thus
habituated and internalized many of its functions, so it is very
difficult to be objective about ease of use. At first, I
STRUGGLED with it; but back then, I was learning to use the PC,
MS-DOS, and Soft Vert, all at once! And getting used to the
Soundingboard which by now is, of course, a piece of cake, but
then was a bear!
Within 3 weeks of purchasing and registring Sequencer Plus,
Voyetra sent the manual on disk. They know what we need! I
have not yet grown into Sequencer Plus, so I can't tell you much
about how it is to use, but a blind, Japanese friend of
mine, Yo Kano, has written sounders for radio using the older,
copy protected version 3. So, that tells you something about
its useability by blind folks. BRAVO VOYETRA!Hope this helps.
jjcs
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