[LAU] Music Editors for Blind Users?

[Simon Wise]

On 08/04/14 15:03, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 1:49 AM, Simon Wise<simonzwise at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>>
>> it depends on what you are practiced at, in a different but related field
>> ... plotting lighting cues in a theatre ... it is very common to be the
>> designer and have someone else operating the desk, then keeping large sets
>> of channel numbers and existing states in your head makes it a lot quicker
>> and easier to communicate as you walk around the space. Casual observers
>> find this dialogue very strange. Interestingly operating audio you often
>> look down at the desk, operating lights the effect is visual and not
>> looking at the desk is important.
>>
>
> Understood, but I'm not sure of the relevance of this observation/behaviour
> to a situation where the lights themselves function as a "visual
> memory/display" of the current state.
>

no more than the sound does, you can hear what's playing just as easily ... it 
is not easier to know which light needs tweaking on a stage than which 
instrument in a mix, and no more obvious which channel to adjust from the look 
than which channel to adjust from the sound.

Simon