Well, for a lot of us the interface (and all the limitations or possibilites attached to it) --is-- what makes an instrument. I mean, I can put stuff into Word

Well, for a lot of us the interface (and all the limitations or possibilites attached to it) --is-- what makes an instrument. I mean, I can put stuff into WordPress with SQL directly, but it's much nicer to do it with an interface. Similarly, I can program a snare sound using a noise generation, an envelope, and a filter, but it's sometimes nice to grap a box and it a button even if I'm constrained by whatever filter and parameters are already in the box... because the interface will dictate a lot of how I use the tool, and that is a feature not a bug :D