the challenges of sunlight on your maschine devices.....

6xes
6xes Member Posts: 916 Guru
in Maschine

some here on the NI forums may have considered taking there midi gear outside, along with a set of speakers etc and blast their neighbours with the cacophony of noise we tend to create…

one of the overlooked aspects is the sunlight and how it can affect your visual feedback of your maschine device… albeit the LED feedback which can be completely washed out and reduce your device as though it were completely unpowered

im curious about finding methods to negate the sunlights affect on LED's and or the visual feedback we often take for granted within a controlled environment…

the obvious method would have your back to the sunlight, thus creating a shadow over the controllers

what other methods would you use to alleviate the affect of sunlight on your maschine controllers, so that LED feedback is still or the screen is still readable?

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  • ozon
    ozon Member Posts: 2,068 Expert

    Parasol … aka beach umbrella. Or find some other shadow, like a tree with a bench below.

  • darkwaves
    darkwaves Member Posts: 475 Guru

    sounds like an excuse for someone to make a 3d printed stand with a screen shade.

  • D-One
    D-One Moderator Posts: 3,755 mod
    edited June 5

    From my experience, nothing helps except shade, especially in white the pads, since they absorb a lot of light. Polarized glasses might help a tiny bit, but I doubt it.

    For laptop screens in direct sunlight when the GUI is very dark inverting the colors (OS acessibility feature) helps A LOT, it's really a major difference but it kind of screws up colors other than white/black. Serato has a white mode, I always use it during daytime gigs outside when the sunlight overwhelms the screen.

  • Psyearth5
    Psyearth5 Member Posts: 404 Member

    I am sorry for the error I made in the previous reply.

    I wanted to say, be creative the "look" just like when you make Music.

    I go for the simplifying as I go towards the end of the production for getting one Track as the group so I can load and delete previous, next while current is playing but there is enough room for being creative at this stage making it your way.

  • el-bo
    el-bo Member Posts: 181 Advisor
    edited June 24

    Back in the 70's/80's, at least in the UK, school televisions had adjustable hoods/wings to shade the screen. Perhaps we could convince NI to make an add-on ;)

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  • D-One
    D-One Moderator Posts: 3,755 mod

    People couldn't convince them to bring back the metal stand let alone that…

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    Hoods for screens are very much still a thing in monitors for video/photography, those are meant for vertically mounted screens tho, I dont think it would do much if anything at all on a screen that is horizontal… The shade must generally be above it.

  • el-bo
    el-bo Member Posts: 181 Advisor
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/232279#Comment_232279

    Keep everything else, but just remove the TV. Then pop the M+ in the hollowed space. All the shaded benefits, along with the ergonomics of a standing desk. Cover it in shrubbery and nobody will be any the wiser ;)

  • D-One
    D-One Moderator Posts: 3,755 mod
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/232374#Comment_232374

    Me likey. I approve this message.

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