On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 10:15:32PM -0800, J. Liles wrote: > I feel like all of this should be self-evident.
It is self-evident to those willing to see it. I've been recording music for a long time, on both hardware and software. My mental model of how a recording system works was formed in traditional analogue recording studios. Non, with its modular design, fits that mental model better than any monolithic DAW I've ever used. I also do electronics tech work for commercial studios. It's easy to spot the gear that was designed by someone who uses it themselves. It tends to have a restricted number of features, but they all work well. It also tends to be reliable and easy to maintain. Contrast that with gear designed by a marketing department. It tends to have a lot of fancy features that can get in the user's way. It's often unreliable and a nightmare to maintain. Software follows a similar pattern. Non is firmly in the 'designed by user' category. It's reliable and doesn't get in my way with excessive handholding. A lot of other audio software follows the 'designed by marketers' pattern. That's fine if it's what you want, but it becomes a problem if you try to force all software to be like that. Nobody has the right to demand a feature that goes against a developer's design philosophy. John
