Control Surface for SOnar X3 - for blind user

The Presonus Faderport will do everything you mentioned for $129.00 or so. The only limitation is that it only has one motorized fader.

Jaws only works with 8.5.  I already looked into all that.  I use NVDA (Non-Visual Desktop Access).   SO what's the Novation Launch Key like?  Is it an O Screen controller  ALso, wonder if I'd be able to read it.

There is some problem with my site at the moment. I have informed my provider. No registration required when it works.
 
LaunchKey is just normal MIDI controller, without motorized faders, with keys. The preset for my plug-in was configured to use TTS to audition transport, tracks, parameter names and values and so on. So you get informed what is going on directly from the controller.
 
The preset was constructed for one particular user, for his needs and controller he had. We can do the same for your controller of choice and for your preferences.

My plug-in is for hardware controllers. From user perspective it work as controller driver inside Sonar. It is sufficiently flexible to not only execute all available in Sonar for Control Surfaces functions but it can also send arbitrary text to TTS build-in into Windows. The text can contain any information available for such plug-ins in text, for example track names, markers, parameter names, values. Hardware button and arbitrary combinations of buttons on controller can be configured to trigger that information sending, for example button X plus button solo from some strip can trigger information like "Guitar solo", "Guitar mute" or simply "Guitar" depending either the track with name "Guitar" is soloed, muted or not. Another information source comes from Sonar state changes, for example Sonar transport can be tracked, producing corresponding TTS statements even when you use computer keyboard to start/stop playing.
 
Control Surface can operate within plug-ins automatable parameters only. Unfortunately, not all VSTi parameters are available for automation. When available, preset can send to TTS particular parameter name as well as the value.
 
I do not have listed plug-ins, so I can not produce good ACT mapping for them on my own. But we can do this together with TeamViewer. I guess we need it for initial setup in any case.
 
As I wrote, I have ready to use preset with TTS for LaunchKey MK1 only. But we can make any MIDI controller function the same way. If you already have some device or can get it, I can configure it so you understand how that is going to work. You can decide then which controller you need, I mean in terms of number of controls and quality vs the price. For TTS in is good to have many buttons which are easy to find. BCF2000 has quite some buttons, but it has no dedicated transport section and all buttons are the same. It is motor faders but they are not touch sensitive. Also I am not sure that endless encoders is the best choice in your case since unlike with normal knobs it is not possible to feel current position. On the other hand you can always modify parameter from its position and not from hardware position of the knob, I think that depends on personal preferences. Launchkey has 8+1 strip buttons, 18 pads (2 round), transport section and track switching buttons, but that is a bad choice in case you are not going to use its normal keys.
 
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I still don't see the link for the plugin download.  I see all the descriptions and the instructions, but no download link.  Maybe NVDA is not reading it?  Who knows, but nonetheless, I have EZController installed, but not the plugin.  Also, I am considering getting the  Presonus Fader Port just so I can work, until I can save up to afford something like the Behringer X-Touch or something along those lines.    

I'd be happy to help you out with the concept of no hardware control.  I am home 24/7 basically.    ALso, when you say "Transport control", what exactly do y ou mean?  I only ask, so I'm not  confused.     I"ll look for an Alphatrack, but the Fader Port will be one if the first things I try, unless I'm l.,ucky.    Sorry for asking so much, but re-learning how to do things is so difficult.    Thank you for your time.  Hopefully we can come up with something for the blind and visually impaired.  I know a few other blind musicians.

only thing I'm seemingly having troub.e with is selecting the control surface from Edit > Preferrences > Control Surfaces.   NVDA is not giving me a selection to choose from.  Wonder if it's even there LOL or am I supposed to look elsewhere?  I see the plugin for EZController under Utilities > Plugin Manager > Control Surfaces .

I found the buttons,  Added EZ Controller, but when I'd go to select the in port and out port to "None",  Once I clicked "OK", they ports would default to my MIDI controller.   With this in mind, I went to the Utilities menu and selected EZ Controller 1, and from the drop down list, I selected the "Audition" file, Problem was, when I'd tab to the buttons (which they don't tell me what they are), I  couldn't find an actual way to close out, but when I pushed CTRL+Tab to move to the next window, if there was one, SOnar would crash.  Anyways, I deleted the controller from Preferrences, tried again about 2 or 3 times,  and now I have 4 "EZ Controller" options in Utilities, but when I try to select one, they won't load and will just take me back to the main Sonar screen. 

I don't have Skype on my PC, but I do on my phone.  I also have TeamViewer and Facebook.  

I wanted to tell you that I cannot send private messages just yet, but that should open up this evening here.  Anways, the plugin is working fine.  Only other thing I can think of is to figure out how to tell when clipping is taking place and where.  Some form of a level read-out.   Anyways, I wanted to let you know that I'm available to help you today come up with the game controller solution that we talked about the other eday.   Thanks again for your help.

There's 17 buttons on the controller.  4 of them are n the form of a D pad UP, Down, Left, Right.  I'm successfully able to get the controller to connect to my PC via USB.  I am going to see if I can get someone to help me map which number buttons are which, but there may be a list for that online.  I had some layout ideas.