Accessibility Posts

A view of the Ableton Live user interface, showing many colourful midi clips, controls and dials

Ableton Live

7th May 2026

Ableton Live is a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). It is primarily used for producing music – but it can be used in many ways! It […]

A hand waves in front of a red sensor on a microphone stand. The sensor has a green led and a gold plate behind a black mesh.

Soundbeam 6

16th April 2026

The Soundbeam has been around in various forms for a long time – since 1989, so nearly 40 years! It works by sensing the distance […]

A colourful device with lots of square, light up buttons

Launchpad MINI

16th April 2026

The Novation Launchpad Mini is a compact, portable MIDI controller designed for music production, live performance, and DJing. It can integrate with Ableton Live and […]

A Moog Theremini - a white ovoid instrument with dials, a screen and antennas

Moog Theremini

26th March 2026

The Moog Theremini is a simplified, yet more powerful version of one of the oldest electronic instruments, the Theremin. It responds to the proximity of […]

An ipad settings menu showing the guided access settings.

Setting up Guided Access on iPads

15th January 2026

Guided access allows you to limit access to specific areas of the screen. This is useful to prevent unintended gestures and touches from altering or […]

Colourful dials, buttons and controls on a dark screen

TouchOSC

2nd October 2025

TouchOSC is tool for building custom MIDI interfaces. It is available for all platforms. It is very powerful, but there’s quite a learning curve – […]

The interface controls for the magic flute MIDI device

Magic Flute

2nd October 2025

The Magic Flute is a breath-controlled instrument. It is useful when musicians only have control of their head movements and breathing. Your breath controls the […]

An ipad with a box of cosmoids (cosmo switches)

Cosmo switches / Cosmo Dots

2nd October 2025

Cosmo switches (“Cosmo Dots”) are light-up, touch-sensitive buttons for learning and play. They are wireless and can be used for much more than just music. […]

A CMPSR (composer) instrument connected wirelessly to an iPhone

CMPSR

2nd October 2025

The CMPSR (pronounced kom-poh-zah) is a joystick controller used to make music. It uses a durable joystick and 8 chunky membrane buttons to play MIDI […]

A Skyle iTracker

Skyle iTracker

28th August 2025

N.B. The current budget iPad models (A16) have built in gaze tracking with comparable performance to this eye-tracker. The Skyle iTracker is a gaze tracker, […]

Someone in a grey jumper is playing Thumbjam on an iPad from their electric wheelchair - the wheelchair's controls are visible in the foreground.

ThumbJam

28th August 2025

Thumbjam turns the iPad touchscreen into a musical instrument with beautiful and expressive sounds that are easily customised to each user. It’s incredibly customisable and […]

The MusiKraken log - a squidlike creature with a keyboard for teeth

MusiKraken

28th August 2025

MusiKraken is a general purpose app that can use the many sensors on your android/iOs device to build custom MIDI controllers. The free version allows […]

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