Ableton Live 11

Re:Ableton Live 11 by taffer on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:24PM (#25062578)

Interestingly, DAWs have always had flat UI designs, something that many HN commentators seem to frown upon.

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Re:Ableton Live 11 by munificent on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @06:14PM (#25064165)

Reason is quite possibly the king of skeumorphic design, across all software categories and all time.

https://www.reasonstudios.com

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Re:Ableton Live 11 by wwweston on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:00AM (#25066946)

For good and ill. Mostly good (I really love it), but treating knobs as weird faders is one place the metaphor breaks and it took me a long time to get used to it.

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Re:Ableton Live 11 by munificent on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:45PM (#25073239)

Yeah, I'm with you. The UI has a sort of fun appeal, but in practice it's not actually that usable when you know what you want to do and want to move quickly.

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Re:Ableton Live 11 by seth17 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:38PM (#25062703)

I don't believe that this is true. FL Studio had a bit of a dated 00's design for a while. Cubase, Reason, and Pro Tools were also not flat either. I'm not sure that "always" is accurate.

Though, Ableton has been flat since 1.0 it seems.

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Re:Ableton Live 11 by mollusk on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @04:41PM (#25063363)

DAWs, maybe, but the VSTs that live in symbiosis with them have had (and a lot of them still do) the most skeuomorphic designs ever, replicating the look and feel of audio hardware.

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Re:Ableton Live 11 by pier25 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @08:30PM (#25065338)

Always?

I think it's quite the contrary. Look at the history of Logic, Cubase, Sonar, etc. For most of their time they didn't have flat UI. Ableton is the exception.

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