Dancing Dots

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Attention Lime Lighter Customers running Lime 9.13: Major Upgrade to Lime Lighter Software Now Available Do you or your student need training in the use of technology from Dancing Dots or in braille music reading? Dancing Dots has contracted with school districts, rehabilitation agencies and individuals all over the world to provide remote training in our accessible music technology and to teach braille music reading. Scheduling is flexible to meet the student's school periods or free time after school. SharpEye only supports the music symbols that are shown in its toolpanes. Everything else must be added in Lime. There are some situations that call for simplifying the music in SharpEye so Joanne Jordan: "For me, GoodFeel has been a dream come true. The Music Director of my choir creates MusicXML files Brown GC, Brown MM, Fischer DH. Photopsias: A key to diagnosis. Ophthalmology. 2015;122(10):2084‐2094. doi:10.1016/j.ophtha.2015.06.025

At these conferences we will be demonstrating The Lime Lighter low-vision music-reading device that magnifies print music, our GOODFEEL® New option to use the Lime Aloud talking score feature with non-JAWS screen readers such as NVDA and Narrator. Create new braille transcriptions through direct keyboard input,import via MusicXML format, and music OCR (SharpEye Music Reader software). Rachel is presently performing locally with several jazz bands, and is composing music for future release. Bob Haselhuhn, Band director in Kansas who creates band parts for his student. Presented to KS Music Educators about his use of GOODFEEL. Emporia Bands

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You can create and print editions of your own musical ideas or use Lime and Lime Aloud to study pieces from others. New material can be created using the Lime editor, imported from MusicXML files made with SharpEye or via Lime's MusicXML import function. MusicXML files can now be exported from a growing number of music notation programs including Finale and Sibelius. Using your finger, you can draw directly on the Lime Lighter's screen. You can also use the wireless mouse to mark up your score. The software displays your markings and saves them for display each time you open that file. Are you struggling to see the notes? The Lime Lighter from Dancing Dots lets people with low vision read print music with ease, clarity and comfort. If any of the following applies to you, then The Lime Lighter is the solution for you. If you are a teacher of the visually impaired or a VI student yourself, ask your school's music educators if they use any kind of music notation software. They might be able to prepare musical materials in their software of choice and export the results to MusicXML. Then all you would need to do is to import that MusicXML into Lime, make any revisions if needed, and launch GOODFEEL from Lime's File menu.. learn how to enter, revise and print out their own compositions, arrangements, and music theory assignments

hear our desktop. Using this technology, we have trained both blind and sighted customers throughout the United States and in other countries to: The Lime Lighter comes equipped with music OCR software which scans print music using any standard scanner. The Lime software imports the results of the scan and displays the music according to your preferences for magnification. It is even possible to listen to your PC perform the music as an aid to learning your part. The music scanning applications optimized for use with Finale and Sibelius, SmartScore and PhotoScore respectively, can read and scan pdf documents directly. But, as with any OCR process, scanning errors are still inevitable. See more about using SharpEye below. Regardless of your choice of music OCR programs, it is almost always best to correct any scanning errors before exporting the results to Lime.To prepare and transcribe these files with the GOODFEEL® suite, sighted users do not need to know how to read braille music. In an hour or so, you will learn to read and perform simple rhythmic patterns and melodies notated in Braille: hardcopy for blind readers, printed Braille font for sighted.The instructors will help participants to evaluate such questions as who should learn to read Braille music and when? How can students who cannot read Braille use Dancing Dots technology to learn musical pieces? Blind students will use Lime with the JAWS for Windows screen reader. They will hear musical tones accompanied by verbal descriptions of notes and other score elements. This information is reinforced by reading the equivalent Braille music notation on an electronic Braille display connected to the PC. Lime does allow you to enter notes, rhythms and all necessary related annotations by typing on your PC keyboard. Adding an electronic, musical keyboard to your workstation vastly improves the ease of entering notes and even allows you to use Lime's Record Dialog to enter notes in tempo to a metronomic pulse. We recommend a keyboard with sounds of its own to reduce latency, that is, a lag in response.

make scanning errors. At that point, we need the help of a sighted assistant since we blind musicians cannot see the original print score to determine how to correct the errors. Of course, if we could do that, we probably would not be scanning the music in the first place! That being said, blind users of SharpEye can sometimes successfully scanned and learned previously unfamiliar to produce braille editions of the same computer music files used to create printed versions of scores? If a piece does not actually have lyrics and this "Read Lyrics" setting is enabled, SharpEye might mistakenly identify the text of another kind of annotation to be a lyric. GOODFEEL will probably issue a critical error message if it should find just one or two lyrics in your Lime file. On the other hand, disabling the feature allows you to disregard lyrics if you do not want to transcribe them. This option needs to be set properly before the recognition step With the release of GOODFEEL 3 in late 2005, Dancing Dots introduced the first version of their Braille music software that has been integrated with an established music editor software called Lime. Consequently, for blind participants, much of this course will focus on using Lime to read and write music. Call us to discuss your training needs and we can create a training plan for you. Want to sponsor a small-group training in your area? Call us to discuss the possibilities.GOODFEEL® Lite: a suite of software which includes GOODFEEL® Lite, Lime, Lime Aloud and SharpEye 2. GOODFEEL® Lite is identical to GOODFEEL® Standard except it can produce only one of the braille music formats which the Standard edition can produce.