Annabelle

I'm trying the Blue Cat's Patchwork Demo version, and it seems it's not as accessible for screenreaders as I thought it would be.

I wonder if there's a VST3 wrapper that won't freeze my machine every time I try to start it.

I just now tried installing that software you mentioned from Kushview, and I have bad news. It freezes my machine to where I have to restart it over and over again! So I ended up uninstalling it.

I know the feeling! I accidentally put a virus on my music machine back in 2016, when I downloaded and installed what I thought was a genuine version of VS Community, a Microsoft Visual Studio program for coding. Boy do I regret doing that, and I'm still mad at myself for that mistake!

Common in what, I wonder?

Someone mentioned Patchwork by Blue Cat Audio. I wonder, if I were to try this program, would I be able to save any VST3 presets as .fxb so they would be backwards compatible with earlier versions of VST?

NVDA is Non Visual Desktop Access. https://www.nvaccess.org.

Windows 11? My music machine runs Windows 7!

I'm not sure how that would work. NVDA used to be able to access that part by navigating with the mouse, where it would make beeps with every little move you make, each beep increasing in tone as you move up or down, and even panning from left to right as the mouse moves from side to side. And of course it would tell you where you are with speech. However, I'm not sure how to make it do that again, as I'm not sure if it has something to do with how my screen looks. I know the resolution can only be between 1024*768 and 1280*768. I've tried changing the screen resolution, but that didn't change anything.

I have made some .fxb files of custom presets I've made, but here's another thing I want to make possible. There are samples like city atmospheres, transportation, phone tones, record player noise, crowds and people, and even music, which are loaded into "sample packs". My screenreader can't seem to find where those are in the plugin, as you have to use a mouse to click on them, so I'm wondering if an automated parameter can be made in the track inspector. Or even copy and paste via CTRL=C and CTRL+V from the Windows Explorer into the plugin.

What I'm trying to do is load samples from the sample bay, but since I can't see, I'm trying to make that a parameter in the Track Inspector.

What's even crazier is that Aram says that options in the new version of Speakerphone, such as loading samples from the finder and adding preset parameters to the track inspector would be difficult to make compatible with earlier versions of VST. Is it the coding that would be difficult? I'm confused!

Hi, it's Annabelle. I've been in contact with Aram Verwoest at Audio Ease, and he says that a future version of Speakerphone would be 64-bit and VST3. He says this would be supported in both Windows 7 and Sonar 8.5, but I need to confirm if this is true. Does a Windows 7 machine actually support VST3? 😕

I bet stem separation is like microsurgery for audio. Just like Data Recovery is like microsurgery on a hard drive. In other words, it's a very delicate process!

What I meant to say was, I'd like to find out what it sounds like in a VST plugin in Sonar 8.5.

I'm reading through the patchlists of all those soundbanks, and I can't seem to find either "Fedra" or "Space Fascination" on any of them. That would be amazing if I could hear what those two patches sound like.

I wonder what that patch sounds like. Is there a demo of it somewhere?

I think the version on the music video, the one with the 12-second intro, is actually the radio edit version. The one I was referring to in the HD video is the album version.

The tune apparently is played approximately two-thirds of a quarter tone sharp from A440, and what I hear is someone blowing into a mouthpiece of a trombone, then a ratchet, then several shorter notes in the same mouthpiece. This happens a couple more times as more synth notes are added.

I wonder if that's where the "tuning trombone" sound comes from. Or is that a sample someone put into a synthesizer?

Are you talking about the sort of spacy sound that starts side 2 of "...But Seriously"?

I mean the part at the very beginning, where you hear what someone thought was car horns, but sounds to me like a trombone being tuned.

Is that the one that sounds like someone trying to tune a trombone? What specific patch is that?

I wonder, what synth was used in the intro of Phil Collins' song, Another Day In Paradise? Specifically, I'm talking about the part that sounds like someone trying to tune a trombone? Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise [Audio HQ] HD (youtube.com)

Does your computer have USB 3 Super Speed? If so, I would go into your machine's BIOS, go to USB settings, find the one that says "USB 3 Superspeed", and if it's off, switch it on, then restart your machine. My sighted friend, Markus (Yes, that's "Markus" with a "K", not a "C"), did that for me, and now the latency is completely gone! What buffer size setting do you have your interface on?