Scott, I'll be really honest with you. You know what I use hardware wise as far as an interface? I just use a little 4 channel Alesis Multi-Mix 4. Aside from it having USB interface, the whole rest of the thing is totally analog. It's absolutely beautiful! And, they're dirt cheap, too! Plus, as far as accessibility with the mac, just to keep this on topic, there's nothing to be accessible about it! It just works. I had an M-Audio Fast Tracks C400, which again was 4 channels, as I recall, but the control pannel software was totally! inaccessible with Voiceover. I know a lot of blind people, like Brian Howerton, etc. who really, and I do mean, really! know their stuff who are using the Focusright Sapphire Pro lineup of interfaces and flipping swear by them! I've never asked them how accessible the control pannel configuration utility is for them, although, I hear that supposedly with Voiceover, it's pretty rock solid.
As for a control surface, obviously, the Apogy is really really killer, but then, for most average home consumers just getting started, as myself, who are more low end professionals, it would probably be overkill. Well, and, plus, they're like, 5 grand, so, ehh, um, werpse? ee yeah. Now, Digidesign back in the days, made a gorgeous! and I do mean, gorgeous! interface that also was combined as a control surface, and it's software was phenominally accessible! That was the Digi03. Oh God! that thing was sweet! Unfortunately, it's not made anymore. I would freaking kill! for one a those things though! And, back when they were around, they were only like, $130 or so. Right now, I'm using a presonus Faderport for the control surface. In logic, or Reaper, forget it! I never could get the darn thing to work. I tried and tried, but it just! will, not do it. For all intense and purpose, the software that comes with it is accessible, although there really isn't much anything useful in it that you'd really wanna do. It's mainly just a driver. You can update its firmware, which is totally Voiceover friendly, but that's about it. I mean, that's about it, period. I don't mean that's all that is accessible. I'm saying, that's literally all the software really does, so nothing to really write home about. It does work though. In ProTools however, this device works almost, if not totally, perfectly. I think there were maybe one or two buttons I had to remap, but for the most part, I'd say 99 percent, it worked right out of the box. I don't even remember initially installing the driver. You can, yeah, but it's really not necessary. Anyway, this is kind of very very gradually starting to veer from the topic of the mac and Voiceover, so let's try to be really careful with this thread. I don't wanna be the enemy here of allowing it to go OT. We're not there yet, but I fear it's on its way there. LOL! I think for now, we're OK, but I'd just be careful, as admittedly, this kind of is a bit of a grey area. Chris. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
