CakeTalking for SONAR Information
A Cakewalk SONAR Tutorial with Scripts for JAWS for Windows
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 how to use it!
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.
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.
System Requirements
- 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.
- You must also be running JAWS version 7.10, 8.0, 9.0 or 10.0.
- 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.
- 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.
We strongly recommend that you contact us by telephone to discuss whether your computer and additional hardware peripherals are satissfactory for use with CakeTalking technology.
Related Pages About CakeTalking
Activate the following link to download an audio presentation about CakeTalking produced by Gordon Kent of Dancing Dots. Listen as Gordon, a blind musician and audio producer, builds the tracks to a snappy jingle about SONAR.
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