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

6xes

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?

ozon

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

darkwaves

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

D-One

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.