A gentleman named Peter Elsea did create such a software interface for a digital console a few years ago. I'm tempted to say it was a DA7 but I don't recall. At any rate, he made it publicly availalble. Problem is, it's only one console and not a terribly widely used one at that. As proof of concept, yep, it can be done. Trick is to find someone to do it or convincing a manufacturer that it's worth it. These days, with the IOS devices controlling hardware remotely, I can perhaps see it being more of a possibility. Interesting.
slau On May 9, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Nickus de Vos wrote: > Hi all this is a bit off topic but still important for visually > disabled/blind people producing or engineering music. I am a sound > engineer and one of the big shortcomings I have vs sighted engineers > is digital mixers as I can't work them because of the screen and > minimum dedicated buttons. Don't know about you guys but I haven't > seen any solutions to make digital mixers accessible and have never > herd anything from companies like yamaha, soundcraft and tascam > reguarding accessibility for blind people on their digital products. A > simple solution would be to make the software that comes with the > mixers fully accessible on mac and pc. This would enable us to use the > mixers as these days, if you have the software on a connected computer > you literally don't have to touch the mixer after plugging all the > physical cables. Everything including routing, mixing, automation etc > can be done from the computer. Don't know if some of you maybe have a > contact at a manufacturer of digital mixers as it would be nice to > hear what their view is on this subject, who knows maybe some > companies considered doing something we don't know about or who knows > maybe there's already something and I don't know about it.
