[LAU] Editing zynadsuxfx/yoshimi patches?

[david]

S. Massy wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:44:33PM -1000, david wrote:
>> Julien Claassen wrote:
>>
>>>  One thought, I think it might be more of a problem in the open
>>> software world, not knowing about needs for such special groups as
>>> blind, colour-blind or other people. There are so many guidelines,
>>> ISO ones and other EU and US goverment ones, some more specific,
>>> other not so. But as Massy pointed out: We are only 0.x%, in the
>>> field of music maybe a little more.
>> I'd say a little more. And many of the blind in music are highly
>> successful, so you'd think there'd be more interest in the world of
>> music-making software being accessible to the blind.
>>
>> Of course, someone like Stevie Wonder can afford to pay a lot more
>> for such accessibility than others ...
> The ultimate accessibility: hire a sighted person. :)

Actually, I'd think that if you have your DAW set up so you're 
interacting with it solely through hardware controls, you'd have the 
best accessibility: you listen to the sound, modify and control it via 
the hardware. I just think there's no need whatever for a musician to 
require anything visual in order to make sound. I've seen too many blind 
musicians who are amazingly gifted partly because their brains have 
shifted visual-processing neurons to audio-processing.

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David
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