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Discussion in 'Music made with Maschine' started by John Gafford, Jun 26, 2020.

  1. John Gafford

    John Gafford New Member

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    I am a visually impaired new user , working with Machine mk3. Using a Mac OS Catalina. My question is does this device machine mk3 provide accessibility for visually impaired users and if so , how do i turn it on ? .
    I know the S- series midi keyboard and the model M32 does support this option.
    If anyone has info it would help
     
  2. Professor Gimpenstein

    Professor Gimpenstein New Member

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    While I don't have an answer for how to fix this, I've found a pair of articles that discuss Native Instruments working on addressing accessibility issues. I wish I could find more than this, but I'm not a Mac user (PC all the way!) so I can't really experiment with it myself. I did some google digging, but I've turned up nothing related to what you're asking aside from a YouTube video discussing Catalina, which I'll add the link here as well, in case it's helpful (but I doubt it is). I think this might be related to my search bubbling. I'll try to keep digging in case I can find something through another search engine, and I'll post a response if I do find something.
    Below are 3 links. The first is an article discussing how Native Instruments is designing for the visually impaired. The second article is about Komplete Kontrol empowering the visually impaired. The third link is the YouTube video mentioned above. I hope this helps, though I wish I found more. Good luck!

    https://blog.native-instruments.com...ed-and-how-its-changing-how-software-is-made/
    https://blog.native-instruments.com/how-komplete-kontrol-is-empowering-visually-impaired-musicians/
     
  3. John Gafford

    John Gafford New Member

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    Yh
    I the software did install without error on t³he MAC , and I can test it on a Windows 10 PC , the FIRST STEP BEFORE USING IT IS TO PRESS TWO KEYS AT THE SAME TIME ON THE MACHINE HARDWARE , and it will speak the word accessibility on / off because the MAC VOICEOVER IS ALREADY ON FOR BLIND USERS.
    These same steps do work using the NI S- series and the M32 midi keyboards and there is documentation within the keyboard
    User manual that supports these steps , but I cannot find this information within the user manual for Machine mk3.
    Thank you for the links good stuff to know , many thanks
     
  4. overlord25

    overlord25 NI Product Owner

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    Hi John,

    I'm a little late responding to this message and only discovered it by accident, however there is a guy called Jason Dasent who has created some Keyboard Maestro macros for the MAC that allow blind users to operate the Maschine completely accessibly, I will post his details below, also I run a website at www.kk-access.com which offers reviews, news and help for blind users, there is a huge global community of us using Komplete Kontrol due to it's speeach accessibility features.

    For details of the Maschine Macro scripts contact:
    overdriverecording(at)gmail.com

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