At 05:41 PM 12/14/2005, Darcy James Argue wrote:
>As for the dials, they work the same as the dials in the Kontakt
>Player -- so at least it's consistently bad UI.

See, now you're getting me to play more with this stuff. <g> In the Windows Finale GPO Kontakt player, the dials work *almost* the same -- instead of dragging left and right, you drag up and down. This, to me, is even *worse*, since it's even less obvious. Left-to-right makes some sense because of where the endpoints of the dial are, but up-to-down makes *no* sense.

> The dials in the
>Finale mixer work in the way you suggest -- but even though that's
>much more intuitive UI, it actually makes them harder to manipulate
>(as you say, you have to painstakingly drag the knob on the dial).

Yes, I agree.

>We Mac users got a lucky break -- the AU version of Ambience doesn't
>have a custom UI at all, just a bunch of generic horizontal sliders
>-- which makes everything easy to understand AND adjust.

I know -- your screenshot makes me jealous!

Aaron.

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