Re: [Lmuse-developer] muse's 1980-user-interface

[Robert J. <spa...@gm...>]

Morrning,

2011/6/3 Florian Jung <flo...@we...>:
> Am 03.06.2011 01:30, schrieb Geoff Beasley:
>
> On 06/02/2011 09:24 PM, Florian Jung wrote:
>
> hold on! endless user options is indeed a GOOD thing, but they have to
> be aligned in a way which doesn't confuse new users, but also allows
> power-users to use them.
>
> not a good thing without sensible, practical defaults.
>
> of course you need sensible defaults.
>
> i'd propose the following:
>
> lots of options
> sane default
> possibility to hide rarely used options ("newbie-mode")
>
> can you agree with this?
>
>
> good idea. but we should keep these "default", "midi", "audio"
> templates; not as .med file, but as button in the session manager which
> automatically sets these values to the appropriate ones.
>
> sounds reasonable if i understand you correctly - i just would like to see
> muse create 69 midi tracks for me with sensible default device values and 32
> audio tracks the same etc.
>
> this will be possible. only that there's an additional dedicated button for
> "one midi track, no audio tracks", labeled "General MIDI template".

This sounds quite reasonable but I strongly vote against removing the
template feature that currently exists.
It can be moved to second tab in this proposed session manager, there
are some of us who actually use it from time to time ;)

Regards,
Robert