I remember having a keyboard in the 1990's until I was obliged
to sell it in 2006 due to a temporary cash shortage. It was by a company
called Ensoniq, and the model number was TS12. It had 76 keys, and they
were weighted. It had internal banks of sounds that were accessible by a
series of buttons. There was a screen, but you could memorize positions of
sounds easily, and you could also rearrange the positioning of sounds, so if
there were any you used frequently such as in live performances, you could
have them right at your fingertips. There were six buttons in a bank, and
there were nine different banks in the internal ram. You could also access
a large number of sounds stored on a floppy disk. The last two banks could
store regular sounds, or you could load in sample sounds which took up a
whole lot of space.
I now have a Yamaha Portable Grand. It uses a dial to access all the
sounds, and is not really designed for live gigs if you're blind. I'd like
to see something these days more like the Ensoniq stuff, but doubt I will.
Kim Lingo
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave via Talk
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2017 2:00 PM
To: peter Chin ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re: Going Backward in Accessibility?
For years, Music keybords have ben off limits due to those screens.
I haven't looked at keyboards for about four years now, but before then,
there was a huge amount of memorization required to use some keyboards.
And no matter what was memorized on other keyboards, they would be off
limits to anyone blind enough to not see the screen.
And along with Keyboards, there are Amps, and loads of Guitar peadals
that now have those screens. And many have so many features, that
memorizing them is a huge task. And if the menus are the type that
cycle through and back around and around and around, these are very
difficult for most everyone Blind.
Grumpy Dave
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Dave <[email protected]>
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