What is Lime?
Lime is a music notation editor software distributed by Dancing Dots which was originally developed at the University of Illinois. Lime is used in a number of music curriculums in the U.S. and abroad.
Users of Lime can build a score by manipulating graphical musical symbols such as note heads and clef signs. The score appears on the screen in conventional staff notation. The score can be passed to Dancing Dots' GOODFEEL software for automatic transcription into the equivalent braille music.
Blind users can independently read and write music using Lime with the Lime Aloud access method from Dancing Dots. And sighted teachers, colleagues and assistants also use Lime to prepare scores for blind musicians to review with Lime Aloud and transcribe with GOODFEEL. Accordingly, using Lime coupled with GOODFEEL, any sighted person can prepare a Braille score without needing to know anything about Braille music.
Dancing Dots offers what we call the "public" version of Lime to sighted individuals who do not need any of these accessibility features. There is no charge for the public version but we do ask you to consider making a
donation of any amount
to underwrite our development costs for maintaining excellent accessibility to Lime for the visually impaired musician. No donation is too small or too large and most welcome. As a guideline, we used to sell Lime for 65 dollars.
Download public Lime and make a donation of any amount.
If you yourself are visually impaired, learn more about our solutions for braille readers called
GOODFEEL,
for musicians with low vision called
Lime Lighter,
and for auditory learners called
Lime Aloud.
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