Re: [Audacity-quality] why output before input?

[Gale A. <ga...@au...>]

| From Steve the Fiddle <ste...@gm...> 
| Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:08:21 +0100
| Subject: [Audacity-quality] why output before input?
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Gale Andrews <ga...@au...> wrote:
> >
> > | From Vaughan Johnson <va...@au...>
> > | Sat, 09 Oct 2010 19:57:54 -0700
> > | Subject: [Audacity-quality] why output before input?
> >> Why does output appear before input consistently in Audacity, e.g., in
> >> Meter and Mixer Toolbars? My guess is that it was done that way in one
> >> place, then propagated for the sake of consistency. But I think it makes
> >> much more sense to have input before output, no? I checked some
> >> screenshots of other audio editors and they typically have input before
> >> output.
> >
> > I've always regarded "playback before recording" as reasonable on
> > the grounds that playback on its own is more common (so more
> > comfortable to see in the VU meters if on the left, rather than left
> > empty and playback on the right).
> >
> > Obviously in one sense if you overdub, you could argue it's more
> > logical for input to be on the left, plus if you Google for "recording
> > and playback" you get far more hits than "playback and recording".
> >
> > But if it works for us, and (almost) no-one complains, best left as is?
> >
> >
> > Gale
> 
> If you stretch the meters so that the Playback meter is above the
> Recording meter it looks very 'wrong'.

Maybe I'm used to it looking "wrong" but even with the two meters on top
of each other, when only playing I still think it looks "odd" to have 
playback at the bottom. But I'm only "0" on it, not "-1".


> (Perhaps also a good time to move "About Audacity" to the more
> conventional position at the bottom of the Help menu)

I almost mentioned that again when we were discussing where to put 
"Show Log". Personally, the number of times I access "About Audacity"
every day, I've come to find it more convenient at the top, non-standard
as it is.

Selfishness apart, I'd still be +1 on moving it to the bottom, I guess
in its own divider.    





Gale