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Begin forwarded message: > From: Fiore Martin <f.mar...@qmul.ac.uk> > Date: January 15, 2016 at 9:36:37 AM EST > To: "ddot...@freelists.org" <ddot...@freelists.org> > Subject: [ddots-l] Fw: Accessible Spectrum analyser > Reply-To: ddot...@freelists.org > > > Dear Dancing Dots list, > following on from the kind advice of Bill McCann, please find below a call > for end user feedback for an audio plug-in > I am developing for visually impaired musicians and audio producers. > > > > > > Fiore Martin here, from Queen Mary university of London. I developed the > Accessible Peak Meter, a VST/AU/AAX plug-in which > > makes peak meters accessible. More info on the plug-in at : > http://depic.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/apm/ > > > > I am now in the process of developing another plug-in, the accessible > spectrum analyser. > The idea is more or less to use the same sonification strategy as in the > Accessible peak meter, but this time to make frequency spectrum graphs > accessible. > > I am about at the point where I can scope the frequency spectrum of a signal > as a graph in real time. > So I am now trying to figure out useful sonifications based on the tasks that > you guys normally carry out when recording/producing > > So imagine you have a tool that sonifies the frequency spectrum somehow. > For instance it can emit beeps when the power of some frequencies trespasses > a threshold or it can sonify the level of selected bins. > > Could you think of what information you would like to get from it ? Namely, > how would you put it to good use in your tasks ? > > > A few examples off the top of my head: > > - select a range of frequencies, say from 20Hz to 200Hz, and emit a beep > each time any of these frequencies goes past a threshold value > - select a range of frequencies and map the level of each frequency bin to a > note. The idea being that you can produce chords out of the bins in the > range and see if it is similar to the chords produced by another channel of > the mix. This way you notice if two instruments overlap and phase cancel each > other > - play all the frequency bins that go past a certain threshold, each with a > pitch mapped to its position in the frequency spectrum. so you know which > the fundamental and harmonics frequencies are. > > These examples were just to give you an idea of course: any other suggestion > would be welcome > Also it would be great if you could specify the tasks in which you'd find any > sonification strategy useful. > > > looking forward to hearing from you > all the best > thank you > Fiore > > > -- > Fiore Martin > Postgraduate Research Associate > School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science > Queen Mary University of London > Mile End road, London E1 4NS, UK. > > Tel.:020 7882 7240 > Web: http://depic.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/ > Twitter: http://twitter.com/DePIC_Research > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
