Fwd: transcriber and vpedal on mac

[Linda Barwick]

Here's a slightly edited version of a review I wrote in January for  
the music transcribers list of using vpedal hardware, which you can  
buy from www.nch.com.au and various other sources. Software version  
numbers and possibly prices are out of date.

Begin forwarded message:

> I thought I would report my experience so far with the vPedal I  
> just bought to try out with Transcribe! - cost me $112.75  
> Australian from mp3direct.com.au, so not too pricey. I have a mac  
> powerbook G4 running OS 10.4.4.
>
> First off, the version of the vpedal mac software that came with  
> the unit (0.7) wasn't up to date and didn't have the 'omni' option  
> that you need for controlling applications other than iTunes and  
> Quicktime. Fortunately you can download the latest version of the  
> software (2.2) from the vpedal site, but I have to say that it  
> wasn't that easy to find the link to the download. It is on this  
> page: http://www.vpedal.com/omni.php - and you have to scroll down  
> to the 'installation' heading to find the link to download, and  
> then it didn't behave as it promised (there's no install.command  
> file in the .dmg file, you just drag and drop the app to your  
> application folder as per normal).
>
> On a Mac you have to enable the 'enable assistive devices' tickbox  
> in the bottom of the Universal Access preference window.
>
> Then, following the instructions that come with it I set up so that  
> the vpedal application opens on startup, and added Transcriber and  
> ELAN to the list of 'Other' applications that can be controlled by  
> the vpedal (if you use Transcribe! you don't need to add it here,  
> it has built-in support). You have to select at the top of the  
> vpedal preferences window which application you want controlled at  
> any one time, and then you can set up in vpedal.app which key to  
> map to review, play/pause and cue.
>
> For Transcribe! users:
> The 'tap pedal' option you can set from inside Transcribe! really  
> doesn't seem to do much good, I couldn't then stop the file playing  
> (in other words, tapping the pedal again didn't put it into pause  
> mode, but just started it playing again), so I now have it set on  
> 'hold play'. I don't use cue and review much normally, so I have  
> the left side pedal (usually assigned to rewind) programmed to set  
> speed to 70% and play, and the right side pedal (usually assigned  
> to fast forward) to reset speed to 100%.
>
> Transcriber 1.5.1 doesn't seem to work at all with the foot pedal,  
> but ELAN 2.5 (which you can use for audio and video) does.

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