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0 pointsem3rgent0rdr9y ago0 comments

The problem is the look. To someone new to audio editing world, there is no need to mimic the look of the old hardware interfaces. Knobs in particular were used in hardware because potentiometers were the method of controlling signals, but there is no longer the need to replicate such an archane control for UI. The look of a pot has little to do with its function. But with software we can make the look of the control express its function.

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closeparen9y ago

I have to disagree. Rotary encoders and faders are the way to make smooth, gradual changes to various parameters by gut feel, which is more or less what a mixer is actually doing.

When money is no object, music is both mixed live and produced in the studio on enormous digital consoles which replicate their DSP parameters onto hundreds or thousands of tactile faders and rotary encoders.

The keyboard and mouse are a terrible way to mix. Fortunately small physical control surfaces can be had for not too much, though then you have the problem of matching your limited controls to the thousands of parameters in the DAW.

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