On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 11:35:09 -0400, Mark D. McCurry wrote: >The app stores are very different marketplaces and comparing to that >arena gives little to no information. It shows how to use a minimum of space with maximised usability and good colour themes. And it shows what is much important, sound presets. The ugly concept of the restricted iOS devices, shows that people are willing to pay for sound presets, much more than for the synth. Instead of programming sounds on their own, they like to use in app purchase to get new sounds. Nowadays nobody is interested in another Oooh or Aaah choir, even not as a base to create new sounds. >I honestly don't understand why you're making this false >statement/conclusion. >In the past there have been ~2-3 who have brought up the topic of paid >presets to me while multiple orders of magnitude more have brought up >the issues with the current UI and the need for drastic change. Good and new usable sounds are rare. I made this statement, because this is what most musicians pay for. For sound design people prefer easy to use synth, e.g. an Oberheim SEM (Oberheim provides a remake), however, most musicians want usable sounds, so I bet that most on this mailing list who own old synths, such as Oberheim synths, own a Matrix-1000. I suspect less musicians would be willing to exchange it with an Oberheim Matrix 12 and I bet, less people on this list own such a Matrix 12 or similar. There is a reason why some synth are wide spread and others aren't. Some synth are very good for sound design, but most synth are basically used with presets that allow easy to make minor changes, such as changing attack and release times, cut off and resonance settings, vector synthesis. All this most of the times is done by modulation wheels, after touch, a joystick or pedals. In the 80s it turned out that synth such as the DX7 were only programmed by some freaks, even if people had external hard or software to make it easier to program. We have similar situations for modern synthesis. People play granular synth, but they prefer to program Juno-106 alike, SEM alike synth. Taking a look at a real Juno-106 or SEM or even at the emulations you get for portable Apple devices, gives a good hint of what I call ultraconservative good design of a tool. Taking a look at a DX7 editor shows at what point it simply makes no sense to care more about GUI design, than to care about providing good presets. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
