Most pleasant GUI - Your choice?

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[Vintage73]

It's not important.

What's important for those that have, is that you've found applications (and interfaces) that you're comfortable with. There's no competition (well, not between us, just between the companies. ).

S1 works well for me, and a couple others in this thread, but if Bitwig/Cubase/PT/DP is your thing, more power to you.

[pdxindy]

I have spent hours with Bitwig tonight, and still feel very well and I can continue for more hours working with it. Usually I feel fatigue if I spend that much time with S1 or Reaper. Maybe it is different with every preson, but for me the most pleasant GUI is when I can stare at it and work with it for many hours. It might not be a fancy one, but sure it must be comfortable to my eyes. So, Cubase and Bitwig takes my votes

Part of what makes a GUI easy for me to look at is not just colors, but ease of visual interpretation. In that regard Bitwig is great.

The menus, transport and tools are all in the top left. The eye does not have to move around to different areas for those things things. The different panels are distinct and quickly understood. For example, the devices panel is clean and concise. The little + is sparse, but entirely obvious what it does.

The S1 image just above has stuff all over the place with lots of duplicated data. It does not lead the eye easily from one area to another. So while it is pleasantly toned in general, it makes the eye work and the brain interpret. There are too many different colors/tones and visual cues are not consistent which contributes to a chaotic impression.

[Vintage73]

It's been long enough that I've pretty much forgotten what it was like working in Cubase, and you should see the Reaper theme I used.

I don't mind the clutter, personally. I guess I'm just a cluttered person.

[EnGee]

Part of what makes a GUI easy for me to look at is not just colors, but ease of visual interpretation. In that regard Bitwig is great.

The menus, transport and tools are all in the top left. The eye does not have to move around to different areas for those things things. The different panels are distinct and quickly understood. For example, the devices panel is clean and concise. The little + is sparse, but entirely obvious what it does.

I have never thought of this before! But you are absolutely right! Hmmmm, I think the reason I enjoyed so much the experience tonight with Bitwig, is that my eyes mostly were looking at one area. So, there were no many movements and the concentration at the specific piece was high because of the GUI design and functions as well. You brought a very important point here

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[koolkeys]

Interesting, i am in display options and i don't see a way to run the display at it's actual resolution. I think this is just for sharpness not space. The biggest it lets me is 1920x1200 - i can do that if that's of any interest.

The display options on your Mac? Or in S1? It's less about the resolution and more about any scaling that S1 or your OS is doing. I don't have a Mac(are you still on a Mac? Correct me if I misread you), but I know that in Windows I can set the amount of interface scaling globally, and also set DPI scaling per application if I want. I have a laptop with a 1080p screen, and some apps(like Illustrator, and Studio One) seem to think of that as a higher DPI monitor(probably because most laptops aren't 1080p, I guess?). So I had to turn off the scaling because it made everything too big.

It may not matter. No problem if you don't like the S1 interface. I was just trying to clear up a little of WHY it looked more cluttered than it should. There was definitely some scaling going on, even if you were running at 1080p. So if you ever do wish to try S1 again, just know there are settings for this stuff and you should be able to adjust how much scaling is done, if any.

And I agree with your later comments about Pro Tools. The interface is slightly outdated for me, but it just works well. I was a huge fan of it when they changed the interface in version 8, and it is so clean.

Brent

[koolkeys]

On a side note for Studio One V3, you CAN adjust the contrast of the interface which will make selected tracks and other things stand out a bit.

Brent