Fantastic eloquent post John.

I just wrote a long post, which I deleted. It was chiefly about the quirkiness of the notation window screen. I could list quirkiness with any window or feature.

It's all been said before, and before and before and before.

It's like a city made of spaghetti, it does work as a city (mostly), but only if you know about spaghetti and boy scout knots.

If I were a designer I would be printing out every screen on paper laying on the floor, getting out the white board, having a brain storm, getting out the De Bono (maybe some beer) the design team, some outside commentators with what the Cockney Brits call 'nouse' (horse sense?) and looking at it all again.

I would begin by determining what are it's core functions and strip away everything else - just so I could see the wood for the trees. In writing there is a term known as "Killing your darlings". This means even if you spent so much of your precious time on this paragraph (or code) on this or that, if it's not needed it goes.

Getting together focus groups of newbies, non musician groups, and young musicians and creating essentially a new product with all the MIDI, Audio and Sequencer functions redesigned. A Weekend away.PG genius and outside minds.

VST, 32 and 64 with standalones - critical.

If Band in a Box was designed this way it would be no cul de sac. It would breed it's way into the DAW and Studio world.

its time (IMO).

Z


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