Hi.
this is a question aimed primarily at Tim, but Is the latest version of
surface reader still in bater mode, and if so, can we get it from the raised
bar webb sight?
Cheers, Nick.
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From: Krister Ekstrom
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2014 1:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: OT: further findings about TwistedWave
Hi all,
I got a really helpful mail this morning from Twistedwave support. Firstly
they seem open to accessibility concerns and said they would consider my
suggestions on scrubbing and other things for the future. Then they told me
about some undocumented keyboard shortcuts that can come in handy: You can
actually select small portions from the sound file using shift + left and
right arrows. Secondly you can scrub by shift+command clicking anywhere in
the wave form rather than having to locate the ruler that you drag in in
order to scrub. ”But the wave form isn’t visible” i hear you ask, and it is
true, however there’s an indicator or rather a text that tells you sample
rate, bit depth etc, go up from there with your physical mouse or track pad
until you hear ”name of project, window” where ”name of project” is the name
of your audio file and there is your wave form.
Now to my own findings:
It’s good if you turn cursor tracking off when playing with Twistedwave.
You may also want to consider setting ”cursor moves back after playing” to
checked. That way the cursor seems to move back to the play head when you
stop playing and i think though i can’t be certain about this, that this
makes it easier to scrub.
By default it looks like the wave form is very small so when you select, you
select in very long distances, so just like in all other wave editors,
adjust the zoom so the waveform gets bigger.
The edit short cuts dialog isn’t a loser after all, it’s quite smart in
fact. The way the dialog works is like this: You go into the dialog for
editing shortcuts, then it tells you to select an item from the menu to edit
its short cuts. VO+m to the menu bar and then go to a menu and select the
menu item you want to edit just as you would if you wanted to choose
something from that menu. Now another dialog pops up asking you for the
keyboard shortcut. Enter the shortcut you want and the dialog will close and
you’re in the main window. Now here’s a little tricky bit, because the edit
shortcuts dialog stays open however it’s not in focus so whatever you do do
not select an item from a menu because then you will be asked for a new
shortcut for this item. Instead use the window chooser, vo+f2 twice in rapid
succession and you’ll be in the window chooser menu, go down the menu until
you hear ”edit shortcuts” and choose that item. Now you’ll be in the edit
shortcuts dialog again and you can ok the choices you’ve made or revert to
default short cuts or cancel the dialog alltogether.
What i’d suggest you do is to set up a shortcut for going to start and end
of selections, those shortcuts will come in handy when you edit.
Hope this makes any sense.
Now here’s where i need your help guys: Could someone who works with
Twistedwave please help me explain to the devs in a technical way how to
make the wave form visible to VO? I don’t think you can make the wave form
itself visible so that you can interact with it and do fun stuff, although
that would be cool but one could do as they have done in some audio editors
in IOS where the wave form is, Voiceover says ”wave form”.
As i said, i hope any of this made sense.
/Krister
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