Well, yes we can certainly agre that Ableton are improving Live. And the addition of several features such as grouping groups and HiDef fonts on Windows were of course welcome. I'm not saying "each version is exactly the same as the last" though, I'm saying "many UI elements are left as loose ends" and "many UI projects seem abandoned"
Yes, it's possible to type a suffix and a search string into the browser search. But surely we can we agree that this is not the
optimal solution.
Yes, we can
type strings into the browser. But this is evidence that the browser is failing, not succeeding.
My presets are all
titled things like this. author tag [ang], device tag [Op, wavetab, analog], | tonality tag [fat, dark] , class tag [piano, strings, pad], variant tag [], version letter [A,B,C].
So i can search for "Ang dark 808 fat B"
That is not a sign of a great success! Oh wait .. we got some totally useless "collections". So now how does that help me filter a query such as "Presets I authored between May and July using Operator". ? It doesn't. But that crappy-browser horse has been beaten relentlessly with no results.
If I were to point at a very obvious example of a UI dead end I always use the rack navigator.
Drag in an instrument rack. In the very botton right corner of the GUI right click the small image and see teh 1/10th completed rack navigator. There is so much which could have been done here. Routing, grouping, management. But nope, it's the perfect poster child for abandoned dead end UI projects.
Well, I always feel like I'm the one saying the emperor has no clothes, and people always point at things which are totally unrelated, or in fact evidence of my point.
EXAMPLE: A max package?
tell me the elegant way I can read about this. Or install it?
Just really examine the steps and say "is this elegant" and "is this really integrated"
I cannot find out
anything about what "Dillon Bastan's MC Movement Studies Package " is.
On this page nothing is clickable.
https://cycling74.com/packages/page/1
Where is this information accessed?
In Live's package manager?
On Live's site?
nope.
No, of course the ONLY way to find out about this device is, so slick and elegant
Drag in a M4L device, Go into edit mode (Max 8, hangs my computer for 60 seconds"it looks like Max previously crashed dialog") . wait. Open package manager from unlabeled sidebar. Click the name "Dillon Bastan's MC Movement Studies Package " find out that it is "Exploring MC audio with JSUI with concepts form Shiffmans Nature of Code".
well.
That really is an elegant demonstration of an intuitive UI experience.
So I may as well stop. It gets me nowhere.
if people cannot see that there is huge improvement to be made in the UI of Live or that there are broken and abandoned elements and interaction models, then it's not possible for me to convince them.
My apologies if I seem terse and anoyed.
It really bugs me when i spend time pointing out flaws and people say "no that's fine" when there are obvious and very evident problems
