"Something interesting is happening in software synthesizer design: after years of trying to boast more of ingredient “xx” (whether it’s modulation, eight-zillion-point envelopes or other whiz-bang features), the new challenge is to make the user experience itself different. The challenge: don’t just do more sonically — make it easier to actually make music. I’ve personally been a big fan of the elegant tabs in Cakewalk’s Rapture, the minimalist aesthetic of Ableton’s Operator, and the drag-and-drop routing in Native Instruments’ Massive. Now, could one instrument really leap forward in terms of guiding its design?"Read the full post on Create Digital Music.
I'm glad to see some more software designers trying to move their UI designs away from the paradigm of trying to make it look like a piece of hardware. I'm also happy to see that they swiped the arc-value display widgets that I used in M1000X. );
ReplyDeleteI have no idea who came first, but Filterscape also uses them:
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I have no idea who was first. My previous post was just a tease anyway; I certainly didn't think up the concept. The first place I ever saw something like that was a hardware implementation on a prototype video production board, in the early '80s. It looked something like the rotary encoders on the Korg Oasys.
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