14 Oct
2008
14 Oct
'08
8:13 a.m.
Ray Arachelian wrote:
Ideally, and this is a personal view, I'd like to
be able to show the
user what the hardware looked like and let them drag and drop cables or
click on buttons. Granted, it's not the same as on the real hardware,
but it's a step closer than just providing display output and not much else.
We are stepping terribly far from the path of on-topic here, but much as
I like simple interfaces without pointless shiney, I've always liked a
feature in the music software Reason. You assemble up virtual
instruments in a rack, and when the time comes to plug it all together
you hit tab - and the rack flips round to reveal the "sockets", with the
cables danging, and swinging slightly from the movement ;-)
Very cute, not much extra CPU to process (not compared to the unholy
amount of DSP going on in some of the synth engines) and a nice little
"user comfort" feature - makes it look like it's doing stuff instead of
just sitting there.
Gordon