[trimmed down reply-to [email protected]] On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:25 AM, john ffitch <jpff> wrote: > Any chance of an option to envy24control to allow colour blind people > to see three zones? I had been using it for years before I was told > that there is a red section at the top and green below > ==John ffitch
John -- Thank you for writing and you'll be happy to know that the new "mutida24" (to avoid confusion with the old and overly colorful envy24contol) does not use coloration in the same way, and yes, I'd imagine the old choice of colors would be particularly bad for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness#Red-green_color_blindness . Although there's been some recent minor changes, this is the look of the new meters: http://nielsmayer.com/envy24control/Screenshot-Envy24Control-MonitorInputs.png http://nielsmayer.com/envy24control/Screenshot-Envy24Control-MonitorPCM.png Hopefully, at least for any colors at issue, there is enough contrast against the background to make it properly visible. Please let me know of any specific issues w/ the simplified, and more X-efficient meters in this version, which try to be less eye-candy, and more useful for making a visual level determination of inputs, outputs, or digital mixer inputs. The peak metering features a green/white/orange/red progression of the peak color (the thin band that stays fixed while the meter below bounces around). But in addition, and more helpful to you, are he peak-level readouts in dBFS from -48 to 0dBFS for all inputs and outputs, including in the "Analog Volume" panel. The 0dBFS label is red with white background, whereas the other levels remain black with white background. That should provide enough redundancy in the metering to not hide important information from you. However, I'm not sure of the perceptibility, of the red "0dBFS" marking. On the other hand, it does say "0dBFS" (in red) which is quite different-looking than, say "-5.02" (in black) In http://nielsmayer.com/envy24control/Screenshot-Envy24Control-AnalogVolume.png the green (at 0dB) and red (+6 +12 +18) markings on the ADC would not be very useful for you; fortunately, the "+" should be visually distinctive from all the other "-" markings in blue. Other alternatives would be Bolding amplification values, and underlining unity gain. Thanks, Niels http://nielsmayer.com _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
