[ddots-l] Re: Technology that works best with music?
- From: "Dancing Dots" <billlist1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 18:35:36 -0500
Hi, Brandon,
SharpEye uses the scanning software that installs with your scanner to
acquire an image of the sheet music you are scanning. You must determine
how to tell your scanner that you want to use gray-scale as opposed to, say,
color or black and white. If that camera comes with a software interface
that will allow you to set it to take a gray-scale image, it should probably
work for you.
As you may have already learned, you must perform a one-time step with
SharpEye to select the "Twain Source". ALT+F, and arrow down to Select
Twain Source. This step tells SharpEye which scanner driver to use.
After that, you can use File | Acquire (ALT+F, Q) to acquire the image of
the music to be read by SharpEye.
See http://www.dancingdots.com/tsgf3/index.htm for the link that says:
How to Create Braille <http://www.dancingdots.com/main/gfblindproc.htm>
Music Using SharpEye, Lime and GOODFEEL for Blind Users
You can also find a shortcut to this document from Start Menu | Programs
|Visiv | SharpEye 2 | Creating Braille Music Overview.
If you plan to use a braille display with our accessible music notation
editor (that is, with Lime and Lime Aloud), I would recommend a display with
at least 32 cells. At present, GOODFEEL has a limit of a minimum of 28
cells per braille line of music. This limitation only applies when working
in the Lime software. That is, you can use your 18-cell display just fine
to read formatted braille music files created with GOODFEEL. See Start |
Programs | GOODFEEL | GOODFEEL Output files. BTW, if you are in the U.S.
and you're in the market for a new braille display, please contact me
off-list using my info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx address. We can supply a number of
makes and models at competitive prices.
I am certainly happy to answer your questions here on our DDots-l list but
Dancing Dots does maintain another online listservs for people who use
GOODFEEL Lime, Lime Aloud and SharpEye. It's called GOODFEEL and you can
subscribe at:
http://www.dancingdots.com/main/listgoodfeel.htm
Regards,
Bill
Bill McCann
Founder and President of Dancing Dots since 1992
www.DancingDots.com
Tel: [001] 610-783-6692
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From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Brandon Keith
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 1:20 PM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Technology that works best with music?
Thank you,
How can I tell if my scanner is gray-scale?
Thanks,
Brandon Keith
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From: Gordon Kent <mailto:dbmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 10:12 AM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Technology that works best with music?
Hello Brandon:
I would really recommend a 40 cell ddisplay for reading scores. Also, I
doubt that the camera would work. Sharpeye is pretty particular about what
scanner to use and it needs to be grey scale.
Gord
----- Original Message -----
From: Brandon Keith <mailto:brandonboy13@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 5:10 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Technology that works best with music?
Hello,
I have a few questions about technology working with music:
First, what Braille display would be best for reading music scores? Is an 18
cell large enough?
Second, is Freedom Scientifics' Perl Camera able to work with Sharp Eye? Or
is it able to scan into Finale?
Thank you,
Brandon Keith
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