Change Control Room GUI

MattiasNYC · August 18, 2013, 2:13pm

ErikG:

ok here here’s a few things that caused these changes.

1• The new design of the mixer is clearly based on a total rewrite that was necessary as the code was old and it was not possible to update it to handle longstanding requests for multiple pre/post inserts etc.

How does that necessitate multiple tabs and horizontal sliders? The code for vertical sliders already needed to be written for the regular mixer, correct? So why not reuse that then?

2• The programs GUI design is basically the same for a very long time. With the technical need for new code for the mixer they decided to “upgrade” the GUI quite a lot. Conceptually it was decided it had to be based on a specific idea for a new controller developed by Yamaha.

Really? Half of the above is just as statement of an irrelevant fact (“they decided to ‘upgrade’”). For the rest I see absolutely no correlation between the GUI and Nuage. What does horizontal slider have to do with which section on Nuage? Where on Nuage do we need tabs corresponding to tabs in CR?

In fact, I would say that apart from the mixer itself which lays right on top of each channel of the physical mixer buckets, the point is exactly opposite to what you’re saying: The whole point of a well designed controller is that you use IT to get both tactile and visual feedback. If I want to change something on the controller I either feel my way to the controller in question or look down. Either way it doesn’t need to be exactly the same as what you see on the screen. Just look at the automation section on Nuage: Does it correspond to the layout of the floating automation window in the software? No, not at all. As a matter of fact it’s quite different; Fill modes on the controller are horizontal whereas they are vertical in the software.

3• A very long standing user request for years and years especially in the Cubase camp has been for a re sizable mixer. What for, I have no idea. But apparently it was asked for enough that Steinberg considered it a important concept to base the new GUI design around.

And resizing affects the vertical sliders, which means that resizing didn’t have to involve creating horizontal ones. And since you can have either tab open regardless of resizing it only means that each tab can be resized, which in turn implies that they could all be so while all being open at the same time.

4• Other long standing requests have been for better metering. multiple type PPM and digital meters as well as Loudness meters. The old meters in the C/R really were close to useless so any new meters had to replace them.

Again: Doesn’t necessitate a drastic redesign of the GUI as far as I can see.

It seems to me that you make some points that doesn’t amount to the overall conclusion you draw from them.