Well I think it's always worth a shot trying to convince them I mean, look what you managed with pro tools. A big advantage maybe will be that they won't have to write software to control the mixers asit's already there they must only make it fully accessible on mac and pc A lot of peopl have their douts if these software controllers actually really work but I have sen a couple of examples. At our church where I help out with the soun we have a yamaa LS9 in one of the smaller venues. The engineer actually stands on stage with his laptop doing the monitor mix for the band with the console sitting at the back onf the venu in a FOH box. The LS9 connecs via eethernet but yamahas bgger MP5D live console connect wirelessly to a computer, I've seen engineers walking around in venues with their laptops while setting the graphic equalizers on the MP5Ds. I know that the soundcraft VI consoles also connect wirelessly to computers and apparently they have even better software than the amahas.
Slau Halatyn wrote: > 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.
