Completely agree. Like I mentioned I've been guilty of the same thing, looking at pretty GUIs thinking this is what matters, but it's obvious what good design is when you use something designed well.fairlyclose wrote: ↑Sat Dec 07, 2019 1:42 am the confusion between appearance and UX has ruined Reaper UX development. I spent a lot of time over the years on the Reaper forum arguing for all sorts of improvements but gave up quite a while ago - just too many people who have no idea they have no idea but are firm in their contempt for the skills designers have developed over many generations.
Live is another interesting one that way. The UX is a mess of well thought out ideas, and UX compromises based on a set of design rules Ableton doggedly sticks to. It's elegant in it's two dimensional approach, and impractical when you can't instantly distinguish it's built in plug ins from each other for instance, or the reliance on mousing for practically everything.
I could go off about Logic and DP as well, but I suppose to a degree some UX issues are due to the age of the DAWs but then there's the color palette in Bitwig, just taking up space for no godammed good reason... I'm really liking the way Performer Lite is looking, I hope the same design is going to be used in the upcoming update to DP10.
Reaper I think isn't about to get any better in the UX department, because the answer is always that you can script your own UX experience so... (lol see above for proof!)
I'm glad it's got alternative themes, that's the main thing.