Definitely, but the UI in 3D apps usually isn't as crazy as music is. Viewport tools and interactive graph visualizations aside, 3D is mostly just text fields

Definitely, but the UI in 3D apps usually isn't as crazy as music is. Viewport tools and interactive graph visualizations aside, 3D is mostly just text fields and sliders editing values. With music, there's all manner of knobs and dials. Each VSTi plugin tends to have its own wildly different interface. Case in point: https://www.google.com/search?q=VSTi&source=lnms&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=VSTi&source=lnms&tbm=isch