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I noticed something about Propellerheads Reason, the old music studio program. Its interface emulates a rack of devices where you can draw cables between the po
by Rapu 17y ago
I noticed something about Propellerheads Reason, the old music studio program. Its interface emulates a rack of devices where you can draw cables between the ports to create a sort of modular setup. Everything is made to look like authentic hardware gear. Just like in the real world, there could only be one cable in a socket at a time, although there didn't need to be any such limitation in a software environment. Later, they kind of fixed this - by adding a separate "splitter" module which duplicates its input signal into two outputs (iirc).
- blasdel 17y agoThe drawing cables between ports part is what works, even if the animated dangling is a little silly when they could be neatly routed. What's terrible about those Pro Audio UIs is the arrays of fiddly little knobs arranged in the same cramped pattern they are on the hardware. They have improved the usability over the years by making the dials effectively sliders -- scrubbing on an arc is just a degenerate case of scrubbing on one axis. The worst are plugins that have these cramped UIs but aren't representative of physical hardware -- some are worse than the worst Kay's Power Tools UIs.