CakeTalking 8 for SONAR 8
A Cakewalk SONAR Tutorial with Scripts for JAWS for Windows
CakeTalking is now compatible with Windows Vista!
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CakeTalking Makes Cakewalk SONAR Talk
CakeTalking customizes the JAWS for Windows screen reader so blind users can access the SONAR software that so many sighted people use to convert their PC’s into recording studios. And CakeTalking tops it all off with a set of detailed tutorials in the form of electronic documents of hundreds of pages that instruct the JAWS user on all the “how to’s”. Using CakeTalking with JAWS, blind musicians can focus their energy on creating, not trouble-shooting!
Is your child, student or client creating music with a keyboard and computer for school, for fun, for profit? CakeTalking for SONAR will make it happen more easily, more quickly and just make it even more fun!
Since its introduction at a packed presentation during the
CSUN conference in Los Angeles in the year 2000, CakeTalking has changed the lives of all
kinds of blind musicians from students who can now independently record and mix their song demos and other audio productions, to working professionals who produce entire
album projects for clients who pay them a competitive hourly rate for their
production services. During that ground-breaking CSUN presentation, CakeTalking's
creator, David Pinto, invited four of his blind students to show how they use
Cakewalk with CakeTalking. In one short hour an enthusiastic audience witnessed
the following:
- A six-year-old girl recorded and orchestrated the Spinning
Song for piano, french horns, flutes and percussion.
- A college undergraduate recorded a melody and displayed
it in staff notation.
- An eighteen-year-old composed a theme for a news program
including a fade for the announcer.
- A fourteen-year-old recorded the piano, guitar and bass
parts for her own song and then recorded herself singing the lead vocal and
three harmony parts.
Testimonials
I'd just like to say how much I'm enjoying CakeTalking. I think it's
wonderful.
I use my PC to do a variety of different tasks,, but using cakewalk with
CakeTalking is definitely the main and most important thing I use it for.
Before I started using cakewalk with CakeTalking I used to use a Roland mv30
to do my musical projects at home and for gigging.
I still use the MV sometimes when I am gigging on my own and have to make my
own way to the venue, but using CakeTalking enables me to do so much more,
and that is not even considering the add-on of the audio side of things.
It's great to be able to work and collaborate with sighted people and know
that I am, in some cases, more competent with Cakewalk than they are. It is
a particularly nice feeling when someone rings you up and you are able to
tell them how to do something.
Richard Synnott
Winning composer of the 2002 Song for Wales and Pan-Celtic Competitions
CakeTalking Makes Cakewalk SONAR Even More Accessible
CakeTalking gets you creating right away with reliable access and sensible instruction ! The key commands are intuitive and easy to learn. Extensive online help and a separate tutorial document direct you in recording, editing and mixing your music. Our customers
are already using CakeTalking with Cakewalk and JAWS to create everything from
song demos to professional radio jingles and CDs for recording artists.
"Until CakeTalking I had to rely on
sighted assistants and a mix of less than state-of-the-art technologies
to complete assignments for my ad agency clients in Japan. With CakeTalking
scripts for JAWS with Cakewalk I can independently record and
edit vocals, voice-overs and background music in less than half the time
I did before. I feel like now, for the first time, I can truly compete on
an equal footing in this industry."
Yo Kano: Pianist, composer/arranger, vocalist and producer
System Requirements
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CakeTalking 8 for SONAR 8 requires SONAR 8 Producer or SONAR 8 Studio edition. WARNING: CakeTalking is not compatible with the Cakewalk SONAR Home Studio product, and works only with Windows XP (Home or Professional) or Windows Vista.
SONAR system requirements.
- You must also be running JAWS version 7.10, 8.x 9.x or 10.x.
By the way, if you want to purchase or upgrade JAWS
for Windows, Dancing Dots is authorized to sell it to you. In fact, Dancing
Dots represents not only Freedom Scientific's products, but most of the major manufacturers
of assistive technology and music supplies.
- To record high-quality, digital audio with SONAR you should have a second,
high-quality audio interface (soundcard).
Use your SoundBlaster or other low-end card for JAWS speech and dedicate
your high-end interface, which can have multiple inputs and outputs,
to processing audio from SONAR.
Audio interfaces for use with SONAR which Dancing Dots sells and supports.
- For best results from SONAR, Sound Forge and other digital audio software, and to avoid potential system conflicts, order one of our Dancing Dots digital audio workstations. We have selected and tested all components and configured the system to be a dedicated digital audio and MIDI workstation for the blind user. We install and configure all required hardware and software and ship the machine to you ready to use saving you hours of installation and set up time.
Dancing Dots Accessible Audio and Notation Workstation.
- Even if you use CakeTalking on a laptop PC you must set the JAWS Keyboard Layout to "Desktop" (Jaws/Options/Basics/Use Keyboard Layout).
- For best results when using CakeTalking on your laptop, Dancing Dots recommends that you use a full-size PC Keyboard as many important
CakeTalking functions are easily controlled by keystrokes from the num-pad. USB or wireless PC keyboards are relatively inexpensive. Some customers have had success
with auxiliary num-pad attachments but others have not so try before you buy! However, starting with the release of CakeTalking for SONAR 7, there are now alternate keystrokes that trigger certain functions formerly only accessible from the num-pad so having a full-size num-pad is now more of a convenience than a necessity.
Differences between Cakewalk SONAR Studio and Producer
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