But all audio software, for what I suppose are historical reasons, features the most egregious skeuomorphic design in all of software.Īlone, each plugin is hideous in its own unique way. I spend a lot of my time mixing and editing audio, and that often involves having multiple audio plugins (essentially applications that run inside the main audio program) from multiple vendors running simultaneously. Winamp may have been Patient Zero in this gaudy epidemic, but it has spread far and wide. Except you have to control them with a mouse. Faders, switches, knobs, needles twitching between numbers on a volume meter - they’re all there. ![]() ![]() The first Billboard #1 single that was recorded to a hard drive instead of tape was “Livin’ La Vida Loca” in 1999 18 years later, in 2017, most audio software still looks like the designers attempted to replicate physical equipment piece for piece on a computer screen. But no area of computing has so thoroughly gone for it more than audio software.
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