9 Jun
2004
9 Jun
'04
10:44 a.m.
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 14:05, Dave Griffiths wrote:
On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 15:44:53 +0200, Marek Peteraj
wrote
Most music software written for profit is now aimed at rich bedroom techno
making kids - hence all the flashy GUI's. Professional software (that costs
much much more) will often have much simpler, clean interfaces because if you
use it all day every day gimmicky GUI's tend to get very annoying very fast.
Really?
I can give you a perfect example - a *reference* DAW system - ProTools.
Which, in ver. 6, has gone eye-candy.
Guess why.
Another fine example - serious professionals using Mac, with macosx.
Pure eyecandy.
Marek
There are
various kinds of users of audio SW; their requirements
and opinions will vary. In my experience, most serious and
professional users prefer a UI that is first of all functional,
Have you done a survey?