Touchscreen pretty useless bright outside gigs

McHale · Post by **McHale** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 12:42 am

The M50 works great outside. You know why? Screen angle.

videorov · Post by **videorov** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:49 am

cello wrote:In all fairness to Korg, the only screens that would meet your requirements of no washout in sunlight would be avionic grade commercial aircraft screens.

One Airbus 320 has at least 6, possibly 8 of these screens.

The cheapest are supplied and fitted at $130,000.

Each.

You seriously do not want to know how much the Boeing 787 screens (10 of them) are...

Perhaps you could try fabricating a card shade that sticks down with velcro or something?

Or a Furuno Fishfinder with TFT screen you can read in direct sunlight.

Jon Lord · Post by **Jon Lord** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 4:07 am

I thought kronos came with one of these:

Never played outside myself, so never had this problem fortunately but having the kronos in the correct angle or having some kind of a simple sunscreen would be what I should have tried.

michelkeijzers · Post by **michelkeijzers** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 8:35 am

I only did about 5 (out of 100 or so) gigs outside ... one time when I had a old synth (kawai K4) I was afraid the sun was melting it.

iixorbiusii · Post by **iixorbiusii** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:03 am

As an idea for future equipment frequently used outdoors (not just synths), there could be a secondary, smaller screen. Not necessarily a touch screen, but made of e-book "e-ink". In fact, the brighter the sun is, the better e-ink looks!

Even just a regular 80's synth-style 2 x 16 character LCD (the DX7 never had this issue

)

On a synth, this secondary screen could display simple information such as performance-critical parameters (I guess it helps to know what sound you've just selected!)

I remember one of my first Blackberry's had a colour LCD which also looked better with brighter light. It's a shame that technology has been dropped in favour of "impossible to see in sunlight" TFT's...

I'll er, get out of my designer's armchair now

michelkeijzers · Post by **michelkeijzers** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:44 am

iixorbiusii wrote:As an idea for future equipment frequently used outdoors (not just synths), there could be a secondary, smaller screen. Not necessarily a touch screen, but made of e-book "e-ink". In fact, the brighter the sun is, the better e-ink looks!

Even just a regular 80's synth-style 2 x 16 character LCD (the DX7 never had this issue )

On a synth, this secondary screen could display simple information such as performance-critical parameters (I guess it helps to know what sound you've just selected!)

I remember one of my first Blackberry's had a colour LCD which also looked better with brighter light. It's a shame that technology has been dropped in favour of "impossible to see in sunlight" TFT's...

I'll er, get out of my designer's armchair now

Interesting idea but I doubt people would pay like $100 for it. A cheaper solution should be something like a bluetooth or USB connection to display on a 3th party device (e.g. smartphone).