23 Jan
2003
23 Jan
'03
10:05 a.m.
Sorry to disagree with nearly all the others, but as a
musician, I find horrible an interface cluttered with numbers.
Music apps are not for joe-users, but for professionals. If actually cubase, cakewalk and
reason make hardware-like interfaces, it's because their users want it.
no, i think you're right, Guy...
im first and foremost a composer - second job is graphic design - and
i've often wondered at the sort of interfaces im given that seem to have
been designed by non-musicians... not that theres anything wrong with
that, but it makes it more difficult for a musician to work with....
apps (in the mac/windoze world - im making no judgement about GNU/Linux
apps here!) that i find 'seamless'... that i can use intuitively without
need for worrying about how they work:
ProTools
Ableton Live
NI Spektral Delay (never entirely sure what its going to do, but its got
a lovely interface - oh please please someone code something like this
for GNU/Linux! ;-)
MetaSynth - nice interface, i've done a lot of work with it. the manual
just sucks, ignore it!
apps i find horribly confusing:
Reason
Max
Supercollider
on the borderline:
IRCAM AudioSculpt - something i have worked with frequently but still
find the deeper realms of it unfathomable...!
ReBirth - nice to play with but there seems to be no instructions that
are of any use!
Unity Session - pretty cool though complex
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