Script Description:
Lime Aloud marries access technology with the tried and true Lime notation editor software. For decades, musicians all over the world have prepared high quality editions of their musical ideas with Lime. Now blind music students, composers and arrangers can too!
Lime Aloud works together with the JAWS for Windows screen reader software. When you order Lime Aloud, you also receive two mainstream software titles: the Lime notation editor and the SharpEye Music Reader for music OCR. 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 NIFF 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.
Reading Lime Notation Files with Lime Aloud?
With Lime Aloud, you can navigate through a musical score using standard cursor keys. Your PC plays each note or chord and verbally describes related annotations such as accents, staccato marks, lyrics and ties via the JAWS screen reader software.
Use Lime Aloud to learn new pieces. Play selected sections of any Lime notation file at a practice tempo to facilitate memorization. You can ask Lime Aloud to play a single note, all notes in a particular part, or even all notes in all parts at any given point in the piece.
Lime Aloud can report the current part, voice and staff, current bar and beat, name of current part and more whenever you ask.
Creating and Printing Lime Notation Files with Lime Aloud?
Set your desired rhythmic value and then enter the desired pitch or pitches all from your PC keyboard. Optionally connect a musical keyboard to your system and play pieces in tempo to a metronomic pulse. Lime automatically converts what you play into the equivalent musical notation. Print the results for your teacher, your student or your colleague.
Application Description:
Lime is music editor software developed at the University of Illinois. It is being used in many college-level music curriculums in the U.S. and abroad. Users of Lime can build a score by manipulating graphical musical symbols such as note heads and clef signs. The score appears on the screen in conventional notation. The work can be saved as a file which can be passed to GOODFEEL. GOODFEEL reads the file and determines the braille music equivalents. Presently, Lime cannot be used independently by a blind person. However, sighted teachers, colleagues and assistants could certainly use Lime to prepare scores to be brailled by GOODFEEL.
You can create Lime files for our GOODFEEL Braille Music Translator to transcribe to the equivalent braille notation. Each copy of GOODFEEL and GOODFEEL Lite ships with a licensed copy of Lime. Lime runs under Windows
and is not fully accessible to the blind user. However, with Lime coupled with GOODFEEL, any sighted person can prepare a Braille score without needing to know anything about Braille music!
Script Details:
- Application name: Lime
- Application version: N/A
- JAWS version: 6.x through 10
- Script author: N/A
- Script license: Commercial
- Script URL: http://www.dancingdots.com/prodesc/limealoud.htm