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If you've been looking for that next semi-cheap music-making fix but haven't decided what to get, consider Ableton Move.
If you look at the official videos, literature and documentation, you'd be fooled into thinking that it's not actually accessible. This is incorrect.
It runs a web-server for helping you manage samples,recordings and sets, but it also has an undocumented screen-reader which I demonstrate in this video.
Next to Komplete Kontrol, I can say that this has been the most innovative, fun and game-changing piece of hardware I've owned and I thoroughly enjoy working with it.

#InspiredBySound - Let's Move! (Ableton Move Accessibility Overview) youtu.be/p8IbinbOhY4
Excerpt from Peter Kirn's blog about Move:
โ€˜How do I access Move with a screen reader?
Andre Louis has a walkthrough for you, as pointed out here in comments! And as always, itโ€™s terrific. This is honestly worth a watch for sighted users, too, to understand how these interactions work โ€“ and itโ€™s required viewing if you work in instrument design.โ€™
cdm.link/ableton-move-guide/
#Ableton #AbletonMove #Accessibility
#ScreenReader #A11y #Blind


Ever find that sitting in front of your unnecessarily complex music rig is hard sometimes? Creative block hits and there's nothing you can do about it?
I certainly find that lately, more often than not.
One device has come into my life and changed a lot of that however. Ableton Move.

In this world-first video, I take you through making a beat without sight, just using the undocumented screen-reader function within the web-based Move Manager.

It's incredibly freeing to be able to just load a fresh set, be presented with four random sounds and perhaps one of them will inspire you so you just begin doing a thing that you had absolutely no plan to do before you started.
#InspiredBySound - Let's Move! (Ableton Move Accessibility Overview) youtu.be/p8IbinbOhY4
#Accessibility #Ableton #ScreenReader #Blind #Music #Composition


The last time I made a video about #Ableton, it was to do with Note, their iOS music-making app.
This video is an Ableton-first, in which I bring you their newest piece of hardware, #AbletonMove.
It ships with a web-based screen-reader and I've been enjoying it for many months.
It uses sounds from Note, but in a hardware form.
32 poly-aftertouch pads, four tracks of midi (or samples,) 8 knobs, USB-C for power and controlling Ableton Live and a USB-A port for connecting class-compliant midi devices, should you wish to trigger it from a keyboard.

Please be advised that screen-reader support is currently an experimental feature and is not fully fleshed out.
Not all aspects of the experience are as desired and there are a few kinks, but it is very much better than nothing whatsoever, and I am extremely thankful to the team that made this possible.

Ableton themselves are not talking about this screen-reader function in any of their literature, but I think it's important enough that it deserves recognition, and to bring an accessible groove-box to blind people in this way.

#InspiredBySound - Let's Move! (Ableton Move Accessibility Overview) youtu.be/p8IbinbOhY4
#Accessibility #ScreenReader


The last time I made a video about #Ableton, it was to do with Note, their iOS music-making app.
today in an Ableton-first, I bring you their newest piece of hardware, #AbletonMove.
It ships with a web-based screen-reader and I've been enjoying it for many months.
It uses sounds from Note, but in a hardware form.
32 poly-aftertouch pads, four tracks of midi or samples, 8 knobs, USB-C for power and controlling Ableton Live and a USB-A port for connecting class-compliant midi devices, should you wish to trigger it from a keyboard.

Please be advised that screen-reader support is currently an experimental feature and is not fully fleshed out.
Not all aspects of the experience are as desired and there are a few kinks, but it is very much better than nothing whatsoever, and I am extremely thankful to the team that made this possible.

#InspiredBySound - Let's Move! (Ableton Move Accessibility Overview) youtu.be/p8IbinbOhY4


If you're not into Tiktok and shorts, but like your longform content, if you happen to like oldschool Rhodes and Wurli sounds from the 80's, you might like this overview I did of a recently-released product. I think it has some of the more unique sounds in the genre, and is very customisable which I demonstrate in the first 20 or so minutes. The last hour is spent going through my favourite sounds in the library, so yeah, this is a long one...
#InspiredBySound - Impact Soundworks Altera Keys (NKS Overview & Favourites)
youtu.be/WByxAqBV508


#InspiredBySound - Impact Soundworks Altera Keys (NKS Overview & Favourites)
youtu.be/WByxAqBV508


#InspiredBySound - Logic 11 Studio Piano Playthrough
youtu.be/TVeYv8xLHhU


#InspiredBySound - #Ableton Note for iOS (A Visually Impaired Perspective)
youtu.be/x6M_AKPQ3cY


It's a really great day when a company allows you to be one of the very first to make a video about a new product.
#FractureSounds release Spotlight Piano for #Kontakt.
Iโ€™m happy to bring you a #playthrough of my favourite presets (not the entire library however).
Iโ€™ll show you the sounds I enjoy the most, and take you through almost all of the #NKS mapping, apart from an oversight where I forgot to discuss the microphones on page 1, due to the second page capturing my attention.
#InspiredBySound - Fracture Sounds - Spotlight Piano: youtu.be/z2FwvW5PmVs


In which I explain my unconventional mic technique for my piano.

#InspiredBySound - What a Great Knight youtu.be/1gSZgk99Ee4


Can I borrow your ears for 66 minutes? I promise to give them back in a bit. Take a listen/watch to my #InspiredBySound Long-form video about the score I wrote for Lean In! I hope you enjoy. youtu.be/y7L5Bzy5d6M

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