Re: AU interface consistency
Re: AU interface consistency
- Subject: Re: AU interface consistency
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 20:14:16 -0400
I have to say that I think Reason's virtual rack is a very tidy
solution to this problem. It allows for a variety of disparate devices
to sit happily together, includes a standard scheme for wiring it all
together and provides lots of consistent controls. The fit to
CoreAudio/CoreMidi just looks a little too perfect to me :-)
Couldn't something similar be provided by Apple? Rather than just
throwing windows up
all over the place like Cubase et al? Tidy yet not overly constricting.
Robert.
On Monday, September 30, 2002, at 06:46 PM, email@hidden
wrote:
Hi Art,
What you say makes sense. I think maybe you misunderstand a bit where
I'm coming from. Inconsistent interfaces don't reflect on just the AU
developer, but have a negative effect on the usability of the
application using it, and the entire system altogether.
Maybe there is not an all encompassing solution, but something could
be developed for damage control to help the situation. And maybe
things won't be as bad as I envision, but when it comes to interface
issues when left to individual opinion things usually become messy.
-- John
I do not.
Custom UIs aren't simply a question of looking better, they allow
developers to add functionality that isn't possible with the standard
notion of 'parameter'. If you ignore my custom User Interface and my
plug-in needs the ability to load samples, what is the user to do?
Or what if my plug-in supports dynamic parameters of some sort, like
an envelope with an arbitrary number of breakpoints? Or a
waveshaping plug where the user can draw the shape? IMNSHO, these
issues can never be addressed by common controls, because (hopefully)
as soon as we standardize an arbitrary-point envelope control,
someone will have the creative vision to come up with something new
you can do with these toys... that requires a new way of controlling
and visually representing it.
Best,
Art
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