GOODFEEL Braille Music Translator

GOODFEEL 3 IS HERE!

GOODFEEL lets you transcribe braille music quickly, automatically and accurately.

Statement on Vista Compatibility

GOODFEEL works without limitation under Windows98, ME, 2000, and XP. GOODFEEL and related software, SharpEye and Lime, will run under Windows Vista with the following limitations. Dancing Dots is working to remove these limitations as soon as possible. Customers will be offered an updated installation program which will eliminate the restrictions shown below when it is ready.

• The JAWS-based Lime Aloud access method to the included Lime notation software will not work. This limitation will have no effect on sighted users.
• GOODFEEL's online Help won't work but the same information is available in an MS Word file installed with the software.
• After running our installation program, in order to set up proper Windows file associations, the Lime notation software must be run once under a user profile with full administrative privileges.

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About GOODFEEL
What's New with GOODFEEL 3
GOODFEEL's Capabilities
System Requirements and What You'll Need to Use GOODFEEL
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How to Create Music Using GOODFEEL, SharpEye and Lime for Blind Users
How to Create Music Using GOODFEEL, SharpEye and Lime for Sighted Users
Overview of How to produce Braille Music with Movies and Descriptive Text
Did you know that you can view and even revise GOODFEEL's output using your portable note-taker such as the Braille Lite, BrailleNote and PAC Mate?
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Sample GOODFEEL Transcriptions
Register GOODFEEL (only necessary for versions before 2.6)
Technical Support and Upgrades
Braille Version of the GOODFEEL Brochure
GOODFEEL FAQ

About GOODFEEL

Are you a blind singer or instrumentalist who needs to have braille scores quickly? Are you an educator or rehabilitation professional serving blind musicians who has no time to learn to be a braille music transcriber? GOODFEEL can help you. GOODFEEL automatically converts several kinds of music files to braille - the same files used to print the score for sighted players. To prepare and transcribe these files with GOODFEEL, you do not need to know how to read braille music; however, you should know how to read print music notation and how to use Windows-based software.

New with GOODFEEL 3

• Quickly transcribe to braille from Finale, Sibelius and other popular music notation software used by band, orchestra and choir directors
• Synchronized scrolling of print and braille notation for current musical measure
• Ships with Lime 8 which simplifies entering of text annotations and has a new MusicXML import/export feature.
• Blind musicians can now scan, read and write musical scores with the Lime notation editor that ships with GOODFEEL via the new Lime Aloud JAWS-based access features. Lime Aloud is a Whole New Way for the Blind to Read and Write Music. Note: JAWS 5.1 through 7.x required. Support for JAWS 8 coming soon. If you are authorized for JAWS 8, you can install earlier versions of JAWS without the need to uninstall JAWS 8 and without any additional cost or authorization required.
• Blind musicians can easily create print and equivalent braille transcriptions for collaboration with sighted or blind teachers, colleagues or students.
• Friendlier user interface to permit easier customization of braille music output
• Optional integration with the Duxbury (literary) Braille Translator to facilitate transcription of theory or method books that have large blocks of expository text.

GOODFEEL is fast and flexible! Braille a single part, selected parts, or an entire score in seconds! GOODFEEL features integrated literary braille translation for most western languages so you can braille both the words and the tune.

GOODFEEL supports U.K. Formatting! GOODFEEL can now be configured to conform closely to the formatting conventions used for braille music production in the UK.

GOODFEEL Lite Version GOODFEEL Lite gives you all the features of the full product but limits you to just one of these braille music formats: instrumental music, vocal parts or keyboard.

Review the document How to Create Music Using GOODFEEL, SharpEye and Lime for Blind Users.
Click here for the document How to Create Using GOODFEEL, SharpEye and Lime for Sighted Users.

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A prepaid upgrade (GOODFEEL Maintenance Agreement) entitles you to the next version of GOODFEEL at a discount.

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