Thats what i was getting at Frank, I've opened your Pd7 and other externels the first time I used pd and said, huh, (clicking on all available boxes), say compared to Reactor where its much more intuitive.
And yes my comment is in the line that I think that our instruments should look nice, a good gui can put me in a creative frame of mind. But then again, I think that colorized syntax in xemacs looks good?!? ken
----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Barknecht" fbar@footils.org To: pd-list@iem.at Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 2:21 PM Subject: Re: the damned GUI - was:[PD] Pd in white on black and OSC
Hallo, Larry Troxler hat gesagt: // Larry Troxler wrote:
I'm kind of bewildered about this as well - to me, PD is just a tool to *create* something beautifull, namely music. It doesn't need to be
artistic
in itself.
And because using PD takes some serious left-brain thinking, I'm a bit surprised that many users care about it's graphical appearance. But
obviously
they do.
I suppose the analogy here would be that some musicians prefer their instruments to look nice, hence nice looking grand pianos, snazzy
looking
guitars, and the like.
In general I fully agree with your view, because that's pretty much the way how I use Pd.
But I see an area where looks are important, and that is in building interfaces for (live) performances. Here things have to be intuitive and very easy and fast to use. To achieve this is quite a bit more difficult in Pd than it should be.
ciao
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