Can you actually use gestures to alter volume and scrub? Or is that something you're hoping for in the future? Kevin
-----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Yuma Antoine Decaux Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 8:10 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Bonjour de Paris Salut Jp, I have recently switched to the mac, and i can tell you that i am glad for having done it on many fronts. First, VO, especially in Snow Leopard, is contextual, meaning that the way you navigate is very close to a graphic based navigation. Voice over tells you where you are on a window pane, and you can navigate where you want from it. Second, which closely relates to the first and snow leopard, there are the gesture based commands which for me at least, are a true blessing. Once you've read all the possible commands and added some of your custom ones, the experience is completely different from anything you can get with windows. The reason why its so intuitive is that you are basically avoiding a whole lot of key pressing, and you really feel as though you are using the trackpad, something which one cannot say for other platforms. And the contextual menus and stuff are a far better case in point. Next, when you purchase infovox's french voices, its way better than using those of jaws for example, as the latter actually lags when you press keys. So basically, either you're left with a lifeless voice for text editing and such, or resort to ultimate shows of patience with the direct solo voices. On the mac, it's smooth, and if you have snow leopard, it gets better. And the voices are also very very real sounding, as well as you having more choices than with the windows counterpart. And of course, if you own an iphone or ipod, you know you can centralize all your multimedia needs with itunes. That brings simplicity and less clutter intensive folder management. All depends on what you want to do with the mac, but lately i've been playing with applescript, and i thank apple for including it with voice over. It allows you to do a lot of things, automate tasks, and enjoy a lot more flexibility and customizability with your programs. You mentioned that you want to make audio on the mac. Well, garage band is sort of acceessible, unfortunately some other packages aren't or require rubix philosophy to get by, but hopefully with the gesture based commands availalble, one will try adding gestures such as the rotor which is using two fingers and rotating them in clockwise or counter clockwise to adjust paremeters. A fairly explicit example would be to use it to scrub through a sample, or adjust its position on the multi-track layout, pinch and outer pinch for volume, pan and filter adjustements, and i guess other custom gestures, which will probably have to be programmed in coco, for other manipulation related commands. En tout cas, bienvenue dans cette liste. best Yuma --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
