[ddots-l] Line 6 Pod HD500 - It's Very Useable
- From: "Jay Pilkington" <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:40:16 -0600
Hi List,
First off, at the risk of losing any credibility with most of you, my
primary instrument is guitar. Hahaha! Just wanted to get that out of the
way.
Now, as all of you are well-aware of, those of us in the music production
industry who have the additional challenge of being blind are constantly
faced with the whole accessibility thing. Yeah, I'm working on it...stay
tuned. But with regard to the amazing Pod HD500 unit from Line 6, I have
just spent many hours going through the Advanced User's Guide, (feeling like
I've been cramming for a defense of a doctoral dissertation), and my
assessment is that this unit is worth every penny and it is relatively easy
to get around on.
The editing application that Line 6 offers as a free download is completely
inaccessible with Jaws 11.
Note: I am awaiting my SMA upgrade to Jaws 13, and it may be possible with
the OCR function. We will see.
Good News! From my experience with the HD500, the menus are not infinite,
they don't flip around when you get to the end of an options or parameters
list. Therefore, there are landmarks, or "zero points", or whatever you
want to call them, if you lose your place you can just scroll all the way
one direction or another and count back to where you want to be. And when I
say "count", I'm not talking about a huge list.
Not only that, but you can hear in real-time the particular parameter you
are trying to modify.
I have to say that this thing is way powerful with the total flexibility of
the Signal Flow View options available to you. If you can imagine it, you
can pretty much do it. And you can have multiple presets assigned to a
single foot switch.
It does have a DSP limit if you stack up too many resource intensive affects
like reverbs or harmonizers, but so far that hasn't been an issue for me.
This is one of those units that you are going to have to make a commitment
to though. I spent the better part of four days reading through the manual
just so I could be familiar with what I was about to get into. Then, I had
some sighted help to understand how the signal flow view behaved. Once I
did this, it is a piece of cake. Still not as good as actually being able
to hear parameters of options with a Jaws accessible app like the HD500 Edit
program should be. But it is worth the effort in my opinion.
Feel free to post any questions I possibly might have an answer to, or if
you have experience with this thing and can alert me to any problems or
advantages that you have found.
Also, if you would like me to explain the signal flow view concept over the
phone, give me a call at my cell listed below.
Hope this helps someone,
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Jay Pilkington 573-356-0710
www.JayPilkington.com
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