Sure almost everyone here wil have received offers for what appears to be large discounts on SF15.


Is anyone using this with NVDA or JFW?  If so, how accessible is it these days?


I know many use Goldwave and now Reaper but using Reaper does seemto require an involved installation including software to enable access to the core of Reaper.  Apart from that it would be a whole learning curve to get to be as in using it in the way I use SF now.


any comments welcome.


Ray.

proficient

I don't know. However if 1 can judge from experience it should be accessible. A lot of what Jonathan Mozen shows on them old tapes still worked last I tried it. Now here's where I would worry if I were you. What isn't accessable no more? Also what features did you use that no longer exist? For example. The swap channals thingy was gone in SF 14 and that's in pro too. So just be ware features may not be there. I quit SoundForge because it didn't like the Zoom H6 as a multi channal interface. Yeah go figure a supposedly multichannal DAW doesn't want a multi channnal 5.1 interface.

Ray,

If you have been a Sound Forge user in the past, Sound Forge 15 has about the same level of accessibility as past versions. I am not finding anything that has been broken between version 14 and 15. There are some aspects of Sound Forge that are not easy to use but there are some work-arounds. Some of the JAWS scripts that are around may help with some of this, but I have not tried them. Many of the newer plug-ins that have been added during the past several versions are not accessible, or at least not very accessible. Some of the newer plug-ins seem to react to the JAWS Touch Cursor, though, and may be useful that way. Most of the older plug-ins that I have used for some time have not changed. I like their noise reduction, for example, and that has not changed for years.

I started using Sound Forge back around version 6 so I have learned a lot about it over the years that I just don't care to have to relearn over again with another product. However, if you have not used Sound Forge before, I would recommend that you see if you can do everything you want to do with another program. If you can, it is probably not worth buying Sound Forge and dealing with some of its challenges unless you know that it does something you need.

Reaper is cheaper, and it may well be more accessible, but I have found it has a steep learning curve. It works differently than other audio editors but it is extremely flexible. However, it could be that the time between my birth and today is working against me in learning some newer concepts.

I have not done a lot with Sound Forge using NVDA. If there is a specific thing you are wondering about, I could give it a try. It is possible there is an NVDA Add-on for it.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson