[sib-access] Re: Great software, braille music editor

  • From: Benjamin Blatter <benjaminblatter@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 06:00:34 +0100

How true! I'll ask about that definitely. But I'm sure the optical 
result would be nowhere as great as sibelius. Well, I have never seen it 
myself LOL but when I brought my first sibelius score into school about 
15 years ago a teacher immediately said: oh, one can see that you're 
using not a cheap program, the slurs par example are looking really good ;-)

Ben


Am 06.01.2014 16:41, schrieb Brandon Keith Biggs:
> Hello,
> If it had output for sighted people, you wouldn't need to use another
> program to work with sighted people.
> Thanks,
>
> On 1/5/2014 11:49 PM, Stephanie Mitchell wrote:
>> What version of windows does it use? Also, can you use nvda with it?
>> Thanks,
>> Steph
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Dani L Pagador <axs.brl@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Monday, January 6, 2014 5:43 pm
>> Subject: [sib-access] Re: Great software, braille music editor
>>
>>> You can do six-key braille entry from the home row of your keyboard. I 
>>> think there's a setting that needs to be checked to do that.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: sib-access-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>>> [mailto:sib-access-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vytautas Jr
>>> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 6:47 PM
>>> To: sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [sib-access] Re: Great software, braille music editor
>>>
>>> I tried Braille Music Editor before I switched to Sibelius.  I found the 
>>> former more time-consuming because I had to think of whatever character 
>>> corresponds to each computer Braille sign to write the detail.   Example, 
>>> vertical bar for g-quarter, period for 5th octave sign, or greater-than for 
>>> *word sign*.  Thus trnslating from code to code to code.  It's a matter of 
>>> preference, but I prefer to focus on the music than do recodifying work in 
>>> the process, especially if a composition is due soon.:)  But some people 
>>> are faster at  that kind of process than I.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Vytautas
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: sib-access-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>>> [mailto:sib-access-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Gibbs
>>> Sent: January-04-14 11:25 PM
>>> To: sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [sib-access] Re: Great software, braille music editor
>>>
>>> Sounds useless if you never learned music Braille.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Jan 4, 2014, at 9:51 PM, Gordon Kent <dbmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> HI:
>>>> I have always wanted a program that would let me enter music in braille 
>>>> and have it come out as print notation.  Goodfeel/Lime does not do that.  
>>>> You can edit the braille output but you can't just enter braille notation 
>>>> and have it translated into print.  I wonder if this program can handle 
>>>> intervals and dynamics and the like, and whether it adheres to specific 
>>>> formatting for notating scores.  I suppose you could enter individual 
>>>> parts in braille and then import them as xml into Sibelius.  I'll have to 
>>>> give it a look, it would have to work pretty well to be worth 350 euros, I 
>>>> don't know what the currewnt exchange rate is.
>>>> Gord
>>>> On Jan 4, 2014, at 8:35 AM, Benjamin Blatter <benjaminblatter@xxxxxxxxxx> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all
>>>>>
>>>>> A swiss friend of mine told me about a program yesterday. I'ts called
>>>>> braille music editor and is widely known in italian and french areas.
>>>>> But it's practically not known in Germany or other countries.
>>>>>
>>>>> I gave it a try. And I really am impressed. It's nowhere as powerful
>>>>> like sibelius, lime etc. but it's very simple and might suffice for
>>>>> most tasks anyway. Notes are entered in braille, the keyboard of your
>>>>> pc switches automatically. You hear every note with MIDI sounds and
>>>>> with speech if you like. And if you have a braille display you can
>>>>> read them as well. You can navigate the music like in a text document
>>>>> with the cursor keys.
>>>>>
>>>>> For my first try I was able to write the melody of happy birthday
>>>>> with lyrics. I exported the song with XML and imported it into
>>>>> sibelius. It worked without any problems as far I can tell.
>>>>>
>>>>> There are still things i'd like to have or haven't figured out yet.
>>>>> But over all I'm really amazed because I can do things and have
>>>>> control over what I do like never before. According to my swiss
>>>>> friend the developer is really interested in constructive feedback -
>>>>> and the software isn't as close sourced like other programs.
>>>>> I strongly recommend to try out this software as 30 days trial version.
>>>>> It costs about 350 Euro. Some scripts for jaws are available as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is the link:
>>>>> http://www.veia.it/en/bme2_product
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe this is what many of us need. A simple way to enter music in
>>>>> braille and the possibility to share with sigted persons by exporting
>>>>> XML to sibelius. I'm interested in what you think about this program.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kind regards
>>>>> Ben
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