[gui-talk] Fwd: petition to make Kontakt Player accessible

[Steve Pattison]

From:    Brett Boyer bboyer202 at gmail.com
To:      PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio at pc-audio.org

Hey all. This is a message I got from another list. Don't know much
about it but if it can help blind musicians i figured I should pass it
along wherever I haven't seen it. Thanks bb

-Original message-

Hello there,

Over the years that I have been a silent part of this great growing 
vibrant community, I have seen people with signatures that identify them 
as musicians. The art of creating music with the computer has been 
gaining a lot of popularity recently, and we have seen excellent virtual 
instruments enter the market. Best Service's XSample Chamber Orchestra, 
Galaxy Steinway, Vintage D, Synthogy Ivory, Grand Piano, EastWest 
Quantum Leap Storm Drums, EastWest Quantum Leap Voices of Passion, 
EastWest Quantum Leap Orchestra gold, silver, and platinum, Gariton 
Personal Orchestra and Miroslav Philharmonik are just a few of them. 
However, the big news is, none of these are actually accessible, 
rendering the blind unable to use these wonderful sounds. Now, as we all 
know, music amongst the blind has been picking up these last few years 
and we see a lot of blind musicians climbing the ladder of musical 
success, from all over the world. Since music is moving towards 
electronic composition, hence giving composers better recording, and 
getting the job done in a fraction of the real price, this puts the 
blind at a serious disadvantage. People won't order any music to be 
composed because they need to pay for performers, studio hours, and 
searching for players who fit their needs.

There is one thing all these instruments have in common though: they all 
use a voice sample player, called Kontakt Player. A voice sample player 
is the software that loads the samples recorded in high-quality studios 
by great performers, and allows you to use them. So, this player's 
interface is what we actually see. To put it in the simplest terms, by 
making Kontakt Player accessible, ninety per cent (if not all) of these 
instruments will be accessible by the blind. Therefore, I invite you to 
please sign this petition, so it could be shown to the Kontakt Player 
support, and maybe spur them to action. So far, my emails have met 
non-committal shrugs. The link is:
http://www.petitiononline.com/kontakt/petition.html

Thank you, and please spread the word to whoever you think might care.

Best,
Parham

Regards Steve
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