Greetings, listers.
My apologies if somebody already forwrded this to the group. I've
just been subscribed for about a week, so it may have been.
attention Richard Ring, Craig Gildner, Curtis Chong and others who may
be interested:
I have been in communication with Harold Sneider regarding an audio archiving
project he is working on, and understand from discussions with him
that the digital audio editing package we use at the national center
is not accessible by blind folks. As it's one of the popular apps for
the audio mastering suite, I'd like to see this remedied.
The other popular apps for audio mastering are mac based, and all are
inaccessible as of this writing. The only speech I know of for the
Mac seems to be at a point where future development is unlikely. This
leaves this os and platform totally out of my considerations for the
future in my chosen field.
As I plan to build a high quality mastering
facility within a couple of years, I'd like to find something which I
can use to provide this service to clients.
The lack of such access
has already cost me good employment opportunities in my chosen field.
Other considerations, such as monitoring speakers and associated
hardware are all known quantities, but I've yet to find accessible
quality digital audio mastering tools. Such software packages as
Sound Forge and Cooledit are only operable at 16 bit resolution,
whereas a quality mastering facility needs to work at 20 or 24 bits. This will
be climbing higher than 24 bits resolution in the future, I'm sure.
These other packages I mention are fine for basic editing on a
semi-pro level, but are not what you find at quality mastering
facilities.
AS we have a commonly used product for this purpose at our
recording studio located at the national
center, we're in a good position to help find means of access to this
package.
A good first step might be some communication with the product
developers regarding this issue. I'm sure they would be glad to fill
a market niche currently not filled by any of the other digital audio
mastering packages now available.
Regards,
Richard Webb
Electric Spider Productions
Quality audio production for those on a budget!
Library music, voice-overs, jingles, demos, music-on-hold.
P.O. box 614 Amateur Radio: kb0ruu
West Burlington, Ia. 52655 Anything worth doing
Phone (319) 758-0427. is worth doing well!
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