[Ardour-Users] Hm...

[Joe Hartley]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:46:21 +0200
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> A half-misunderstanding :D.
> 
> DAWs need drop down menus, right click menus, short cuts etc., it's not
> enough to have enough workspaces.

Whoops, I definitely did misunderstand.

This problem isn't just shared by DAWs though - I've run into a lot of 
hardware that has so many things it tries to do that the knobs and other
controllers become difficult to use.

In newer digitally-based outboard gear, the problem becomes one of 
re-mapping controls, where the same button can do very different things
depending on what function the hardware is doing at the time.

User interface design pre-dates computers!

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