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Rob schrieb:

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> On Thursday 03 September 2009 06:29 am, cunnilinux himself wrote:

>> what makes existing win/mac solutions unbeatable are thousands of VSTs

>> with thousands of presets working just out of the box.

>

> While you and those who posted followups to your post have piled about 50

> pounds of snark on the idea, presets are indeed extremely important.

To have a handfull presets, that demonstrate, how an app works, ist

important. But just to choose an entry in a given list of "cool

killer-leads" and record it, yields in 9/10 cases to those boring

Cubase-beginner tracks, we all have heared before and  nobody is really

interested in.
Jaron Lanier (I know, he is controversal and I do not consider him a

"guru" or something... still he is brilliant sometimes) has told an

anecdote in a speech he gave in the 1990ies, that sums up the matter

quite well. In short it says:
A industry-guy said to him:

"Well, take a violin, for instance. I mean, a violin has a crummy user

interface. It's so hard to play. With computers we can build a better

user interface for the violin, and then kids will be able to play it,

everyone will be happy..."
Lanier commented this lengthily but came to a brillant conclusion in the

end:
"Playing the violin is actually that mystery, it's the end of the line,

it's not for any other reason."
get the whole story:

http://www.exhibitresearch.com/kevin/nyc/jaron/index.html
Music is a complex work of art and it demands care and effort and most

music-loving people like it exactly because of that. It does not need to

be a Mahler-symphony or a Bach-partita - a simple structured song can be

the same as worthwile listening to but it needs to be made with passion

and care and inspiration and it will never be easy.
Still I agree, that software made for complex work should be as usable

as possible. But there is a difference between usability and cheap

shortcuts to standard-sounds.
best regs
HZN
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