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Re:Rack 2 (Virtual Eurorack) by fredoliveira on Monday December 27, 2021 @11:38AM (#29703935)
I guess the design ethos of Rack is really to be a software-based Eurorack "simulation", and in that case, being fully skeuomorphic makes sense — you can't have eurorack without the rack system or the wires for CV/audio.

That said, in general, what you see in software is a lot different. Mentioned elsewhere in this thread is Ableton Live (that has been around for many years) and is a DAW with a very clear design language that is all about the workflow and quite far from any real world device. But that's not to say that either approach is right/wrong - they both work.

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Re:Rack 2 (Virtual Eurorack) by PaulDavisThe1st on Monday December 27, 2021 @02:51PM (#29706084)
There are essentially no dataflows within Live that model what happens in Rack. That's not true in some other DAWs, and is certainly not true in various other audio software. Consequently, Live's approach to "what you see" is just not an appropriate comparison here. It's different, but that's because it's really a completely different kind of workflow, not just "a different way of doing similar things".
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