Hi BONES, thanks for completing the survey! The Playability attributes come as a choice in between "Emotional connection with the instrument" and "Sound nice". As for the price, the algo would pick up on the fact you never pick $179.99 and through all the questions identify that the common thing is the price and thus give it negative value to $179.99 (and potentially a higher importance to price depending on how you answered other question about price). Happy to send a link to the research paper the tool is based on...BONES wrote: ↑Fri Jan 21, 2022 7:31 am I don't get how the survey manages to score on playability when I don't recall any questions about it. Elsewhere, some of my answers may have been skewed by specifics, in that I would never pay $179.99 for any plugin, no matter how good, so I always chose the other option when that figure appeared. Apparently my top priorities are CPU Load, followed by Price, with Character in a distant third place.
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OK, that makes sense, although I never linked "emotional connection" with playability, I assumed it was more about nostalgia, so playbility will have ranked far more poorly than if I had interpreted it correctly.
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Playability is perhaps simply not the right term. As the choice only present itself as "Emotional connection with the instrument" or "sound nice" I think people will attach more importance to those description than the term but I agree that if you had asked me to define playability, I would have been giving a different answer personally too...
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- 8823 posts since 6 Jan, 2017 from Outer Space
Playability is another word for MPE support… What else should it be?
All synths can be played with on/off keys… Playability would normally be associated with controllers, not with plugins, unless they support MPE…
All synths can be played with on/off keys… Playability would normally be associated with controllers, not with plugins, unless they support MPE…
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- KVRian
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I just completed the survey and was really surprised by my results, they were not what I would have expected. It does reinforce
that what we believe and reality are not always the same.
My take on emotional connection and playability are also a little different. In my shallow little world, a truly playable synth creates the emotional connection. While MPE support can certainly enhance the experience, it is not necessary. Certainly there were playable synths before MPE?
While I might have an emotional connection (good or bad) to emulations of my first hardware synths (nostalgia), It does not
equate to the emotional connection created by a truly playable instrument.
As we are talking virtual instruments and humans, it would seem that personal perception is as important as reality? Can one really exist without the other?
that what we believe and reality are not always the same.
My take on emotional connection and playability are also a little different. In my shallow little world, a truly playable synth creates the emotional connection. While MPE support can certainly enhance the experience, it is not necessary. Certainly there were playable synths before MPE?
While I might have an emotional connection (good or bad) to emulations of my first hardware synths (nostalgia), It does not
equate to the emotional connection created by a truly playable instrument.
As we are talking virtual instruments and humans, it would seem that personal perception is as important as reality? Can one really exist without the other?
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