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Internal mics, into the IPhone 15. TTS through the recorders speaker. Full demo/Overview this weekend

This sounds so cool. I haven’t heard it sence I was young.

I am super stoked, the Zoom H1 Essential is on preorder, backorder, and I expect it will be shipping to me this weekend. I expect to have a audio demo out next week here at Drews Sound. The 2 biggest features that our out of the norm, are accessibility, Audio guidance in the menus, and 32 bit float recording. We also know the recorder boasts USB c connectivity, so we should,in theory, be able to plug it into the Iphone 15. My hopes, and wishlist are below.

Access to all menus and options.

This should generally speaking be a given, but time will tell. Not being able to change recording format, sample rate, bit rate ect, also fx such as high pass and limiters. Hopefully we have it all with audio driven menus.

All the tracks in overdub mode. I know you can overdub on the H1, if you could grab all of the recorded tracks and stick them in a daw, that would be so sick! Life couldn’t be easier.

Have the audio output, come through the speeker, when used as external microphone. I know, we would expect them to call it audio interface mode, but, it sounds like external microphone is the term. If I say, plug the recorder into my Iphone, use it as an external mic, and could hear Voiceover through the external speeker, and menu guidance from the external speaker, this means that, no, I couldn’t monitor levels with out headphones, but that I could use it on the fly, anywhere, just by carrying a usb c cable. That would be epic!

Easy Sd card access. Hopefully with audio guidance, We can have easy access to the files on the Sd card. This means that maybe, we can have access to it’s recordings, easily within the files app on iOS! That means, you don’t have to record into the phone, but can record on the H1, and use the phone to grab and post, without, using a computer at all. Sick!

Time will tell. Stay tuned. I’m excited to spill all the beans, on all the goods!!

First time I heard the new sound was, Friday night I believe. Almost sounds, like same sound used for sharing a post. I turned off speech and recorded the audio as I swiped through. It doesn’t play every time a post is past over, so, it’s got to mean something. It also, happens a lot on posts that include photos, or videos, but, not all the time. What does it mean?

so if you haven’t experienced it, you’re probably thinking, WTF? Sometimes empty soda cans, come in boxes of soda. It’s unfortunate because you lose out on the soda! But the fortunate thing is, I’ve never gotten a recording of it. There’s no soda in the can. The bottom of the can is a little bit broke, and it was sticky.

It’s almost like a Piano Sustain petal, with Some shimmer. 6-8 second long tail. Really beautiful

A friend sent me this from a vaca he went on. I limited, and compressed pretty hard to pull up all the other doodles. Omg? This is like pretty much all roosters. Damn. I love Roosters, but, this? Is a bit freaky.

Their is just something, about a laptop’s keyboard. It’s flat,, It’s thin. The keys aren’t so stiff. The feeling! I love the sound of typing on a laptop, something, sophisticated about it, probably cause I’m from the 90’s, and, in the early 90’s, any laptop moment, was an, Oh, my, God! moment.

I, prefer to type on an external QWERTY keyboard at work. It sits nicely in front of my Braille display, it’s got a number pad, I won’t cause the internal keyboard of my laptop to go out, with 6 plus hours of typing, 5 days a week. I needed a wired option. The one I found feels oh so classy, like typing on a 2000 dollar machine. It’s got an applications key. The F keys, actually type instead of providing volume, brightness and other functions that we don’t need with a screen reader, and, it sounds so beautiful. You here the words business slash professionalism, in every word you type. If you have been searching for a wired option too, check the,

Cherry KC 6000 Slim https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D1XWPLM?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

If you are looking for a wireless keyboard, that’s, almost as cool, check the,

Arteck 2.4G Wireless Keyboard… https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D34L57F?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

It feels quite a bit cheeper, like a 300-500 dollar machine, more, plastic like, but, holds up very well, and battery life? lasts months and months with heavy use. I would have been very happy if the wired above was just this goodbut it’s honestly better.

so, does this wireless solution work with instruments? Also, how far is the distance coverage? Listen to this demo to find all of this out plus a special surprise at the end.

Did you know? Their is an Apple Music app for Windows, grabbable from the Microsoft App store? Pretty cool. The app is pretty accessible out of the box, but, You have to, tab to every control. These scripts give you much easier navigation. Of course, they are free to use.

Scripts for the Apple Music Preview app, readme,
written by Drew Weber.
february 2024
Note, the word, Preview, is in the Apple Music application name, these scripts are not a demo with limited functionality.

Installation.
Copy the other four files besides this readme to your JAWS User settings folder.
Navigate to the JAWS main window.
Press alt+u to launch the utilities menu.
Press x, to launch the Utilities folder.
Press E until you reach, Explore My settings. Press enter.
Now, using Insert+t, JAWS should announce, ENU. If so, you are in the correct folder.

Usage:

Issues with these scripts.
When Apple Music launches focus is lost and you must alt+tab back to the application.
The scripts resolve this issue upon first launch only, once per run of JAWS. If you end up in another open application, just alt+tab over to Apple music.
Moving to the volume section using Control+V will not work in less you first navigate to volume mannually. Press Control+shift+a to move to the actions
menu, then tab over to the volume button, press space and then escape. After you’ve done this, Control+v is expected to work from anywhere in the application.
Navigating to the library with Control+l, playlists with Control+P may not always work as expected. I feel it is because these areas of the application
may be hidden at times. If you press control+shift+s to navigate to search, then tab once you will be in the library tree which includes playlists etc.
If you are trying to get to library and focus doesn’t move there, you may press control+l twice quickly to navigate to search and receive a message to tab
once to the library.
keystrokes included within these scripts for the Apple Music application include,
Music transport controls
Press, Control Space to, Play/Pause
Press, control left arrow to skip back to the previous track.
Press, Control Right arrow to skip to the next track.
Press, control R to cycle through repeat modes.
Press, control S to toggle shuffle mode.
Press control V to move to the volume controls which includes a volume slider, and mute button. Please see above if this isn’t working as expected.
moving to different parts of the Apple Music application.
Control shift S moves you to the search edit.
Control L moves you to the library tree. Press twice quickly to move to search, and then tab to the library tree. Please see above if this isn’t working.
Once you have navigated to artists and pressed enter, use Control 1 to take you into the artist list. Once you have found an artist by arrowing down and
pressing enter, use, control 2, to move you to the albums list. Once you have found an album, tab to the more button, and press the applications key for
further options. If you press the applications key while in the albums list, you will hear a message guiding you to tab once, and then press the applications
key.
Press, Control P to move to the Playlists section.
Press, Control Shift L to move to the Listen Now section.
Press, Control Shift R to move to the radio section.
Press, Control B to move to the brows section.
Press, Alt Left arrow to navigate back in the application.
Press escape to close this message.