On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 14:05, Dave Griffiths wrote: > On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 15:44:53 +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote > > > There are various kinds of users of audio SW; their requirements > > > and opinions will vary. In my experience, most serious and > > > professional users prefer a UI that is first of all functional, > > > > Have you done a survey? > > Most music software written for profit is now aimed at rich bedroom techno > making kids - hence all the flashy GUI's. Professional software (that costs > much much more) will often have much simpler, clean interfaces because if you > use it all day every day gimmicky GUI's tend to get very annoying very fast.
Really? I can give you a perfect example - a *reference* DAW system - ProTools. Which, in ver. 6, has gone eye-candy. Guess why. Another fine example - serious professionals using Mac, with macosx. Pure eyecandy. Marek
