On 25 July 2005 at 15:46, Ben Loftis <ben@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Most professional audio gear is like a bicycle. A bike is > certainly not intuitive to a first time user, but once you > learn how to balance, steer, etc, you can get around faster > than someone on foot. This has sometimes been described as > "intuitable" rather than intuitive. Or, "discoverable" versus "usable". Word is easy to discover for easy things to do. 'vi' is *much* faster, if my 'vi' speed versus the 'Word' speed of my compatriots is any gauge. Pull-down menus are "intuitive", where as hot-keys are not. But, hot-keys get the work done quickly once they're known. Pull-down menus which list their hot-key shortcuts in the menu are quite nice for me. The Opera web browser is one example of this. > Professional audio tools can look quite alarming to the novice > but must allow a pro facing a tight deadline to get his or > her work done. Ardour should strive to be intuitable, not > intuitive. I think it is progressing in this direction quite > nicely. Yes, Ardour was a little usable to me right away. After a few hours, and the tutorial, it became quite useful for 80% of what I want to do with it. There are still things that I need to learn. On the other hand, I've used 3 different stand-alone DAWs, two from Roland and one from BOSS. Each of those was *much* more difficult to use or learn than Ardour, and I needed to memorize or write down the obscure button-press combinations & sequences to be able to do even simple things. That said, they are nice units when driven right by someone expert at doing so. Cheers... -- Kevin
