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Re:Rack 2 (Virtual Eurorack) by udbhavs on Monday December 27, 2021 @11:52AM (#29704093)
It's certainly messy because it tries to mimic the hardware 1:1, but there are more ergonomic alternatives.

Some examples: Bitwig's Grid (https://www.bitwig.com/the-grid/) and Patcher in FL Studio (https://www.image-line.com/fl-studio-learning/fl-studio-onli...). Afaik there is no equivalent in Ableton which I really miss sometimes (unless you consider Max4Live which is on a different level of usability).

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Re:Rack 2 (Virtual Eurorack) by PaulDavisThe1st on Monday December 27, 2021 @02:54PM (#29706120)
What do you think that Rack "tries to mimic [ from hardware ]" that Bitwig's grid does not? Are you just refering to the knobs etc.? If so, that's not in Rack's domain at all: module developers control their module's appearance, and there some which are extremely skeuomorphic, and some which are not. Bitwig's Grid is uniform and consistently non-skeuomorphic, but is also (IIUC) not open to 3rd party device/module development.
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