Ableton Live is a beast. Revolutionizing the MIDI and Audio sequencing recording environment, Ableton live offers two very specific yet interchangeable production concepts, the Arrange view and the Session view. The horizontal Arrange view looks like a typical MIDI and audio sequencer with project browser on the left, the recording tracks in the center, the track headers on the right-hand side of the Arrange area, with the note, sample, and instrument parameter editor at the bottom of both windows. The vertical Session view, far more interesting, is comprised of vertical scenes, or slots for MIDI and audio data. The scenes can be set to trigger manually with a mouse or with a controller or programed to move between scenes on a given track. Want to chop and warp an audio clip, stretch a sample, record a MIDI clip into a scene, drag in a beat and loop it? There’s no faster DAW for creating beats, looping clips, and processing audio waveform data than Ableton Live. In session view, Ableton Live can be used as a real time, performance-based application on the stage or in the studio. In the Arrange view, you can record clip material that can be simply imported as scenes for use in the Session view. Perhaps the biggest advantage Ableton Live holds, is the integration with the programing language of MAX/MSP. Max For Live provides a community of developers that build MAX/MSP patches, selling them through the Ableton website. Although these patches are incredible MIDI and audio processing devices, their graphics, like most of Live, looks and feels homemade. As both the Session view, and the Arrange view has fixed and defined borders around specific sections, browser, track area, instruments editor, help menu, each section is fixed in its footprint. In result, the help center on the lower left-hand corner of the application cannot be used with pointers zoom in place. Therefore, as a visually impaired musician, Ableton Live's help window and tutorial text window is inaccessible.