'Basically, as I press a button on Keylab, or I turn a dial or change a value, it sends notifications out to the system voice, allowing me to know exactly what's on the keyboard,' Dasent said in a video describing the update. With this new accessibility mode, the company's Keylab controllers now communicate with the Analog Lab software and a computer's text-to-speech engine.

“I had no choice but to just stick with the presets,” he added. He couldn’t tweak cutoffs, envelopes, parameters or adjust the brightness. It was a tedious and expensive process, he said, but even after that he could only choose presets. For between $500 and $1,000, this person would export the presets to a format that would work in Avid’s Pro Tools, which had the accessibility features Dasent needed. “I would have to hire someone to come in for maybe three days to save these presets,” he said. It was cheaper than spending hundreds of thousands on actual synths, he told himself.īut because Arturia’s preset manager Analog Lab wasn’t built to accommodate the visually impaired at the time, Dasent had to drop even more cash.

“I pretty much couldn’t do anything.” He had spent some $500 on Arturia’s V Collection 5, a set of virtual instruments that included recreations of some vintage synths he wanted to use. “At that point I couldn’t browse and use the software,” he said. When visually impaired music producer Jason Dasent decided to buy a collection of instrument plugins from Arturia about four years ago, he did so despite his suspicion that the company’s tools wouldn’t be accessible.

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