GOODFEEL Braille Music Translator
Accessible Music Notation Suite of Software from Dancing Dots
Sighted musicians convert print scores to braille music quickly, automatically and accurately with GOODFEEL . Blind musicians can review braille score with optional verbal and musical cues and independently create print scores of their musical ideas.
New with GOODFEEL 4
GOODFEEL 4 runs under the current version of Windows and all previous versions of Windows back to Windows XP on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms of Windows.
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New option to subscribe annually or even monthly. Lower initial cost. Distributes expense over multiple budget years.
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First support for Unified English Braille (UEB) for transcribing text elements such as titles and lyrics.
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Save lots of time and labor using the vastly improved import MusicXML function. MusicXML is a standard format used by music educators and publishers.
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Braille and print music track in sync during playback from Lime s Hear dialog. (JAWS & braille display required)
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The Lime Aloud talking score feature of the Lime notation software included works with JAWS versions 15 through version 2021.
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New option to use the talking score feature with non-JAWS screen readers such as NVDA and even Narrator.
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New Silenzio mode allows you to temporarily silence the talking score feature so you can skim through the score hearing only notes and chords without related verbal description.
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Option to mute or adjust volume of metronomic click during score playback.
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Optional setting to have JAWS describe note durations using UK terms such as crotchet and minim.
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Responsiveness with JAWS and other screen readers much faster than previous versions.
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Low vision optional add-on: Users of Lime Aloud who also have low vision can mix and match Speech and braille cues with special scrolling and magnification features known as Lime Lighter. Add $400.
Hear what some of our customers have to say about GOODFEEL
Dear Team Dancing Dots,
Thank you so much for all your help over the past 4 years. Our high school choir student is now moving on. He has been blessed with an excellent choir teacher and I have been able to provide him with all the materials she has chosen due to the wonderful Dancing Dots software and your excellent advice. With your help, not having a musical background didn t get in the way of Brailling 4 years of choir selections for high school and UIL competitions. You all are the best!!!
Marci Barbosa
Sighted Braille Specialist
Dancing Dots, you've changed my life forever!
It's been 23 and a half years since I started my organists position at Christ United Methodist Church. Although I still very much appreciate the people that will either play a piece of music for me to learn, or even transcribe it for me, I am so thankful that I don't have to rely on them full time, as I did when I started.
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The dream of the ability to write and print my own music and arrangements, which went all the way from hopeful to probably never over all these years, has been successfully realized and utilized in these recent years, and is so rewarding. To give a piece to a proof-reader to check, and have them not come back with, "I'm not sure how to read this", but with, "There's a harmonic clash in measure 42. Is that what you intended?", and be able to say "Yes", is still amazing to me!
...The ability to sit down and do a project quickly and successfully, without spending an inordinate amount of time getting it right because the software is difficult to use, is still a miracle to me, and something I don't take lightly. It's a value to me to have something I can use with predictable results, and still have great power and flexibility.
Again, thank you all, for providing all these tools, and all this independence for us. There are a lot of things in recent years of my life that either wouldn't have happened at all, or would have been much less successful without what you've provided. Thank you again and again.
Kevin Utter, blind musician from Colorado
Almost 3 years ago, I Purchased the Dancing Dots software with a subscription plan. Then my world opened up. I could now arrange music, and put it on a big music publisher s website, as well as my own site. Now every month, I receive a little check representing commissions from my hymn arrangements. More than the money, I experience so much joy from arranging music. I m thrilled that all this is possible because of Dancing Dots. Thank you!
Chris from Oregon,
Sacred sheet music for small ensembles:
http://PlayHymns.com
"I simply would not have been able to survive professionally over the last ten years either as a concert performer (harpsichord, clavichord and fortepiano) or as Professor of Harpsichord and Early Music Performance Practice at Trinity College of Music, London, but for my discovery of GOODFEEL .
I do use the scanning facility (SharpEye) as well as employing sighted musicians who, of course need to know nothing about Braille Music, to create Lime Files which GOODFEEL translates for me into scores which I can use on my own and in classes which I teach. I have worked together with these "transcribers" to develop a method of writing figured bass, which is invaluable in meeting the rapid demands of students. You can imagine that I am often asked to coach someone who is performing within a few days of asking and, without GOODFEEL and Lime, this would be absolutely impossible. In fact, I once was able to read, and therefore teach a Scarlatti vocal work two days after mailing the print copy to the [Lime] "transcriber". This speed, of course, would have been unthinkable in the days of "normal" print to Braille transcription. I hope this gives you at least a summary of my reliance, as a blind professional musician, on GOODFEEL , and my profound gratitude for it."
The late John Henry,
Professor of Harpsichord and
Lecturer in Performance Practice,
Trinity College of Music, London, UK
GOODFEEL helps me to proofread. I've caught many mistakes by inputting sections of music into Lime with the MIDI connection and then checking the braille in the editor. It is a terrific tool.
Ruth R., Braille music transcriber
"I am a Suzuki piano teacher at a school that seems to eat up repertoire.
All the teachers and students are sighted and there is a fabulous music
store here which gives everyone access to almost anything we want. With
help from my reader, I can use SharpEye, Lime and GOODFEEL to scan and translate
a piece even a day before a student's lesson. I also use GOODFEEL to transcribe
midi files off the Web--hymns that are due for my job the following Sunday.
I appreciate the immediacy the programs afford. It certainly makes me a
better prepared and more competitive teacher in competitions class work
and private lessons."
Blind music educator from Iowa
"For me, GoodFeel has been a dream come true. The Music Director of my choir creates MusicXML files
for me so I can import them in to Lime. One fellow choir member has recently even created Lime files for me. This software has been a godsend. I have also used it to study piano and voice privately.
GoodFeel helps me out in every way."
Joanne Jordan
Holly Natalie Tuke, UK
Enjoy listening to Holly playing a piece for flute which she learned from a braille music score.
GOODFEEL Links
Join the GOODFEEL listserv to correspond with users from all over the world; learn whether GOODFEEL is right for you from those who already use it; or trade Q & A, tricks and tips with fellow users.
About GOODFEEL
Features of GOODFEEL 4
Overview of How to produce Braille Music with Movies and Descriptive Text
How to Create Music Using GOODFEEL , SharpEye and Lime
Did you know that you can view and even revise GOODFEEL's output using your portable note-taker?
GOODFEEL's Capabilities
System Requirements and What You'll Need to Use GOODFEEL
Testimonials
Request a free Timed Evaluation of the GOODFEEL suite that runs as a full version for 15 days.
Sample GOODFEEL Transcriptions
Optional installment payment plan for GOODFEEL
Order GOODFEEL
Technical Support and Upgrades
GOODFEEL FAQ
About GOODFEEL
Are you a blind singer
or instrumentalist who needs to have braille scores quickly? Do you want to print your musical ideas out in standard staff notation for sighted people to read? Are you an educator
or rehabilitation professional serving blind musicians who has no time to learn
to be a braille music transcriber? GOODFEEL can help you. GOODFEEL automatically
converts computer files of print scores to the equivalent braille music. These are the same files used to print
the score for sighted players to read.
To prepare and transcribe these files with the GOODFEEL suite, sighted users do not need to know how to read braille music.
However, you should have a basic understanding of print music notation and how to use a Windows PC.
Features of GOODFEEL
GOODFEEL is fast and flexible. Transcribe a single part,
selected parts, or an entire score in seconds! GOODFEEL features integrated
literary braille translation for most western languages so you can braille both
the words and the tune.
GOODFEEL supports U.K. Formatting.
GOODFEEL can be configured to conform closely to the formatting conventions used for braille
music production in the UK.
GOODFEEL Lite Version
GOODFEEL Lite gives you all the features of the full product but limits you to just one of these braille music formats: instrumental music, vocal parts or keyboard.
Easy to use
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Scan the print score (optional step). A sighted musician must correct any errors. Or import via MusicXML interchange format from Finale, Sibelius or other third-party notation programs.
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Use Lime to enter and edit the score using your PC and/or MIDI musical keyboard.
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Proofread or play back your piece.
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Launch GOODFEEL to emboss or edit formatted braille music score.
Order GOODFEEL
Notes
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In the United States, Dancing Dots is the "Sole Source" for GOODFEEL .
Attention customers from outside of the USA: Dancing Dots has a number of
international distributors. Please contact them to place your order and for after-sale support.
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Installment payment plan for GOODFEEL
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A prepaid upgrade (GOODFEEL Maintenance Agreement) entitles you to the next paid release of GOODFEEL at a significant discount.
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GOODFEEL ships with digital versions of all relevant user manuals.
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Select the Internet shipping option for the GOODFEEL software.
GOODFEEL Standard
GOODFEEL 4 is actually a suite of software which includes GOODFEEL , Lime, Lime Aloud and SharpEye 2.
Make your purchase more affordable by paying in monthly installments.
Price: $1,595
GOODFEEL 4 Standard Subscription
GOODFEEL 4 Lite
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.
Make your purchase of GOODFEEL Lite more affordable by paying in monthly
installments.
Price: $995
GOODFEEL 4 Upgrade from GOODFEEL Standard version 3.2
This latest version has many new and improved features. See New with GOODFEEL 4.0.
Price: $495
GOODFEEL 4 Upgrade from 2.6 through 3.1
This latest version has many new and improved features. See New with GOODFEEL 4.0.
Price: $595
GOODFEEL 4 Upgrade from 2.5 or Earlier
This latest version has many new and improved features. See New with GOODFEEL 4.0.
Price: $695
GOODFEEL Lite 4 Upgrade from GOODFEEL Lite version 3.2
Price: $395
GOODFEEL Lite 4 Upgrade from Lite 3.1 or earlier
Price: $495
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