Hello Vince, I just retired from my job doing piano bar work back in May of
2018.
I worked there 4 nights a week for 31 years.
I wil be 69 years of age this June.
I have been working as a professional musician since 1970.
For example, From 1970 to 2018, I only missed one newyears gig, 1982.
From 1987 to 2018 working at the Hideaway lounge doing piano bar work.
Through out my life I done studio work, playing in bands and doing single man
gigs.
Regarding manuals on new equipment I have certainly felt your pain.
At the present time I own 11 professional pianos and keyboards.
Including the flagship Yamaha Genos. and the clavinova CVP709 digital piano.
Not to mention, all the other studio audio gear and band equipment.
PDF manuals are the answer to our prayer.
If you don't have Adobe reader download it and install it.
I am using Adobe reader 9 and I benn using it for years.
Using Google are another search engine, you can do a search for the PDF manual
of the gear you are intrested in.
Download it and open it with Adobe reader.
Your screen reader such as Jaws along with Adobe reader will help you learn
your equipment.
Usually, once the PDF document has been loaded in Adobe reader, I save it as a
textfile.
This way, I can copy certain sections of the manual to its own file and give it
a file name identifying the contents of the file.
Creating a folder with the name of the gear, like Yamaha Genos, I put all the
textfiles in this folder for future reference.
Also, if you have an iPhone or iPad, download the app called. Stream reader.
As a blind person, this is one of the best apps for your device.
It reads just about anything, PDF, textfiles, you name it.
Even documents that were done with OCR Technology.
There is another app called BE my eyes.
This app allows you to connect with someone to help you with something you may
need.
For example, what is on my computer screen?
Or maybe you droped an expensive ring on the floor and you can't find it.
This app comes to the rescue.
I hope all of this may be a help to you.
Vissit my website.
https://www.markdew.com
Email: jmkeybd1@xxxxxxxxxxx
Mark.
----- Original Message -----
From: cheez@xxxxxxx
To: audacity
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 9:59 PM
Subject: [audacity4blind] Question to Serious Musicians
Let me clarify. When I say serious musicians, I'm referring to those that
play an instrument. Not those that cut, copy, paste instruments from a
database. So here goes my question.
Oh, before I get to my question, I'm especially wanting to hear from those
that are either totals, or can't make out what's on the display.
If you play a digital instrument that has an LCD display, how do you access
the menus?
I'm a totally blind drummer. And I've just purchased a new electronic drum
set. And like the 16-track sequencer that's built into my synthesizer,
accessing the menus is, as you know, basically impossible!
Now I can switch to different drum kits. But I need to find out how to
adjust the attack on some of the pads.
It seems no one is pushing or at least trying to convince makers of such
instruments, accessible for us. And thus far, iPhone apps aren't any help
either when it comes to trying to make sense out of it all.
So I figured I'd pose this question to this community.
I'm an old school kind of a guy. I took music theory to learn how to put my
ideas onto tape. Not borrow someone else's creations.
Now this is my own personal opinion, so don't get angry and I don't mean to
offend anyone. For I respect those that do use cut, copy, paste. But I think
composing from your imagination is a better way to displace your God-given
talent.
So, that's it. Hopefully I'll get more helpful ideas than negative responses
about my personal opinion.
Thanks.
Vince
