KVR Audio

bermudagold · Post by **bermudagold** » Sun May 03, 2020 9:53 pm

the impact of CHI design on cognitive performance metrics and psychological/emotional affinity is interesting to me. I think tools that have a lot of sophisticated functionality lend themselves to a CASE tool IDE type interface. Think the melda interface which I think works well.This doesn't seem to be a problem for people who are used to using these types of interfaces at their jobs. For people that don't, these interfaces seem to be an instant turn off. Even for people who do however, these interfaces make making music feel like they're at work, and they want to feel like they are at fun.

The psychological/emotional impact of interfaces seems to affect some more than others. My ex wanted to get back into music, and I put a lil rig together for her and introduced her to ableton. She had become tired of always waiting for engineers, paying for their time, and most often not liking the results or not having them take direction or listen to her. She was mentally prepared for a learning curve, understood the process/steps, knew what she wanted, was excited, and motivated. She had had some previous experience learning to get around lower level cakewalk products, and more recently garageband, but after a very short period of time trying to get up and running with ableton, ...seemingly on a subconscious level it literally sucked all the creativity and life out of her! I actually know quite a few people who after falling in love with a tool functionally, became miserable from looking at it regularly.

With this experience in mind when my nephew expressed an interest, I started contemplating what would be the lowest risk on ramp, and one of the things i found was this. On the opposite extreme of a CASE/IDE type tool, if you want to guarantee using it is fun, literally turn it into a game. Sony just needs to go ahead and add full I/O, midi controller, and VST support without workarounds,....cause at 50$ this is one of the best values around and would probably be a blast for a lot of people.

this guy also built a synth in the game as well

Jace-BeOS · Post by **Jace-BeOS** » Mon May 04, 2020 7:02 am

Is there supposed to be a message here?

Mushy Mushy · Post by **Mushy Mushy** » Mon May 04, 2020 7:23 am

Jace-BeOS wrote: Mon May 04, 2020 7:02 am Is there supposed to be a message here?

After entering the Bermuda triangle the OP had to dash.

fairlyclose · Post by **fairlyclose** » Mon May 04, 2020 7:41 am

Mushy Mushy wrote: Mon May 04, 2020 7:23 am
Jace-BeOS wrote: Mon May 04, 2020 7:02 am Is there supposed to be a message here?
After entering the Bermuda triangle the OP had to dash.

antic604 · Post by **antic604** » Mon May 04, 2020 9:32 am

bermudagold wrote: Sun May 03, 2020 9:53 pm-------

You called?

Reefius · Post by **Reefius** » Mon May 04, 2020 10:21 am

bermudagold wrote: Sun May 03, 2020 9:53 pm-------

That is a terrible GUI

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Mon May 04, 2020 10:22 am

No GUI?

Post probably got lost in the Bermuda triangle.

ATS · Post by **ATS** » Mon May 04, 2020 10:31 am

I think OP is high

DJ Warmonger · Post by **DJ Warmonger** » Mon May 04, 2020 11:51 am

OP is gold, can't deny it :v

Kr3eM · Post by **Kr3eM** » Mon May 04, 2020 11:57 am

Think it's a bait, all the people who complains about GUIs will eventually post here... an easy way to update your ignore user list, to avoid all the "negativity" and make KVR a "happy" place...

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Mon May 04, 2020 12:30 pm

If you don't like the GUI, you can always close it and use your DAWs built-in interface instead.

Forgotten · Post by **Forgotten** » Mon May 04, 2020 12:49 pm

bermudagold wrote: Sun May 03, 2020 9:53 pm-------

Too small for my hi definition display. Fail.

Saffran · Post by **Saffran** » Mon May 04, 2020 3:06 pm

Could it be, if enlarged 100 times, a spell that turns you into a pink elephant?

pushy · Post by **pushy** » Mon May 04, 2020 3:18 pm

bermudagold wrote: Sun May 03, 2020 9:53 pm-------

I know what you mean.

VariKusBrainZ · Post by **VariKusBrainZ** » Mon May 04, 2020 7:09 pm

Morse code but has a finger stutter?

For all the people who always complain about GUIs LOL