Why would you lose any credibility playing guitar? Man be proud, keyboard players are, well, keyboard players... 99.9% of their sounds are made in a computer! l8r----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Pilkington" <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 6:40 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Line 6 Pod HD500 - It's Very Useable
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 havejust spent many hours going through the Advanced User's Guide, (feeling likeI've been cramming for a defense of a doctoral dissertation), and myassessment is that this unit is worth every penny and it is relatively easyto get around on.The editing application that Line 6 offers as a free download is completelyinaccessible with Jaws 11.Note: I am awaiting my SMA upgrade to Jaws 13, and it may be possible withthe 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 wayone direction or another and count back to where you want to be. And when Isay "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 ofthe 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 affectslike 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 commitmentto 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 hadsome 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 ableto hear parameters of options with a Jaws accessible app like the HD500 Editprogram 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 thephone, give me a call at my cell listed below. Hope this helps someone, * Jay Pilkington 573-356-0710 www.JayPilkington.com PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! To leave the list, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type unsubscribe For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq or send a message, to ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type faq
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