Music software you can actually use without looking at it
Most music software is built to be looked at. Knobs you drag, waveforms you scan, meters you watch. When you cannot see any of that, the software does not get harder to use — it stops working entirely.
TG Studios exists because I got tired of that. I am a blind musician, and every tool here is built keyboard-first and screen-reader-first from the beginning. Not an accessibility pass bolted on at the end. The first thing each app does is speak.
What that means in practice
- Every control reachable by keyboard. No mouse-only knobs, no drag-only gestures, no controls that exist purely as pixels.
- Every control announces its value. Not just its name — the number you actually need.
- Sensible key travel. A slider that takes thirteen thousand key presses to cross its range is not accessible just because a screen reader can find it.
- Native controls, always. Custom-drawn widgets look nicer in screenshots and tell a screen reader nothing.
- Speech that knows when to stay quiet. Warnings and status messages are on separate channels, so silencing an alert does not silence everything else.
The tools
TG Model Master
An accessible guitar and bass amp and cabinet modeller. Seventeen amp models, ten cabinets, a chromatic tuner, impulse response loading, stereo cabinet routing, and a preset library you can audition with the arrow keys.
Measured on a normal Windows laptop: 5.3 milliseconds of latency at a 256 sample buffer, with no dropouts.
In development
An accessible chord reader — give it a song, and it tells you what is being played. Chords, key, tempo, and how to actually finger each shape, spoken aloud in time with the music or written out as a document you can read at your own pace. More on this when it is closer.
Why this is not a charity project
Accessible software has a habit of being free, abandoned, and slightly broken. I would rather build things that are properly made and properly supported, which means charging for them. These are real tools, priced like real tools.