Why does the “new” Instrument Rack / MediaBay or just the floating Instrument Rack thingie take up about
1/4
of my 27" screen?
There’s huge amounts of “white space”, not THAT many buttons and there’s nothing I can do to hide all the little buttons and settings that I don’t need to see for all VSTi:s all at once? Is this good UI/UX design? What got better when the Instrument Rack was resized? I’d be happy with a little read only display for each VSTi loaded and show/hide button for changing settings for whatever VSTi I’m editing. I can’t edit more than one simultaneously anyway.
In Addition I want to have the Steinberg engineers a look at the yamaha motif Editor vsti (and stand alone). Imho you can learn how a well designed Interface could look like. For example the Rotary controls can be very, very Little if you handle them the way yamaha does this in their Software. Cubase does a lot of strange things as well with “hovering”-Buttons. Again the motif xs/xf Editor could be a great place to learn how to use “hovering” benefically.
Oh! Only 25%? Did you not know you loose even more by showing the chord pads at the same time?
Steinberg must be so thrilled that they have such a unique selling point! By Cubase and loose 60% of screen real estate
They’ll be to busy showing off Nuendo 7 and Nuage at Frankfurt next week to worry about reducing users editing screen space down to the size of a Galaxy phone though…
Yeah, maybe the pool should fit there, but you need space for the pool to show at least a few important columns?
The Pool and the MediaBay makes more sense to have there at the right than … the Instrument Rack. It’s like Steinberg had this idea and sort of stretched the Instrument rack out to fill the same space needed for the MediaBay to complete the combo? There is no natural connection between the Instrument Rack and the MediaBay, not at all. There IS as a matter of fact a dedicated and floating Instrument Rack. If we could have that set to a reasonable size along with the Pool/MediaBay to the right we’d have a win/win/win/win/win situation .
Maybe a smaller Instrument Rack dockable to the right but detached from the Pool/MediaBay combo would be a good [Feature Request]