On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 07:52:22 -0600, Jonathan wrote:

>The Volume Logic Plug-in sounds pretty good at its defaults, but a shame
>there doesn't seem to be any way of changing them with a screen reader.

Like I said, zero accessibility, darn darn darn!

>I think Sound Solution, which is also a
>multiband processor and free, is more accessible. The fields are not
>automatically spoken, but at least you can tab between them in Sound
>Solution, and label them. It's also a DSP plug-in, which has its advantages.

Agreed.

>Regarding Stream Solo, this is an intriguing plug-in but I suspect it will
>not be suitable for the way most Shoutcasters broadcast. This isn't a
>substitute for your current encoder of choice, such as Shoutcast or the SAM
>Encoders. Instead, it's a processor that feeds processed audio to your
>encoder. There are plenty of custom controls in this application to set the
>parameters of the processing, but at least you can tab between them so I
>suspect they could be recustomised and labeled.

Were you able to find the one to change the audio processing preset?

>What happens with this application is that once you turn the processor on,
>audio is taken from the input of your sound card and fed back, slightly
>delayed through the output of your sound card, complete with processing.
>This means that if you are disconcerted by the delay between when you talk
>and when something is echoed back, you wouldn't want to use this on the one
>sound card. You'd instead want one sound card dedicated to taking the output
>of another sound card and sending it to your encoder like Sam or Shoutcast.
>That said, I know Ots DJ also has this slight delay, and some Shoutcasters
>don't mind it.

A two-card system would probably be optimal, yes.

>Very interesting stuff, and it would be awesome if we could convince these
>guys to make Volume Logic more accessible by giving good keyboard access.
>It's very CPU efficient for what it does, which is a really impressive
>thing. I note though that the last version was in January, so hope it is
>still under active development. Perhaps it's just stable and they don't need
>to keep releasing updates.

That would be nice.  I tried emailing them at several different
addresses found in several different read-me files from the VL and
Octimax_ plug-in documentations, and so far, nothing.


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