[LAU] User interfaces for Audio [WAS]: Re: ZynAddSubFX Usability Survey

[Lorenzo Sutton]

On 29/04/16 18:45, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Will Godfrey
> <willgodfrey at musically.me.uk <mailto:willgodfrey at musically.me.uk>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 11:37:25 -0400
>     Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
>     <mailto:paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>> wrote:
>
>     > From Apple's "Optimizing Audio Unit User Experience in Logic Studio"
>     >
[...]
> However, I cited the stuff from Apple because a lot of people forget
> just how batshit crazy plugin hosting really is, and that for it work
> well, the plugin (developer)
> needs to be aware of certain basic guidelines. This is as true for the
> GUI side of the plugin as it is for the DSP side

There's also an interesting user-experience corer to it. For example one 
thing I noticed in Ardour is when you open a LADSPA plugin window Ardour 
still 'grabs' keyboard shortcuts (e.g. SPACE to play, HOME to rewind); 
open an LV2 window and I'm most often hitting HOME to rewind just to 
discover I've set the parameter under focus (usually a shiny knob) to 
its minimum value :)

This is just to point out consistency, I'm not sure what is better in 
general, in theory adhering to some Library (GTK?, QT?, ...) 'standard' 
would provide a consistent experience, but then I guess I'm the only one 
entering numeric parameters into plugins (and therefore usually prefer 
LADSPA..?).

Lorenzo.