Re: "Easy-ui" interface code

On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 21:18 +0000, John Rigg wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:26:48AM -0800, R Parker wrote:
> > What are "Algo"? In case anyone doesn't know, Jamin was designed with the correct mastering limiter from the start. If I recall, there was a bug in the original limiter which was addressed by Sampo.
> > 
> > If these changes are prompted by the suggestion that Jamin would be more popular if properly designed, forget it. If Jamin isn't popular it's because Linux audio isn't popular and mastering is misunderstood.
> > 
> > If you can't understand the existing documentation, then write better documentation. To write good documentation should only take a couple years and a dozen mastered albums. With that experience any software engineer worth their salt would be qualified to understand the difference between improvements and compromises to Jamin.
> 
> I'm afraid I have to agree with Ron here. `Dumbing down' the default
> interface might attract users who are not audio engineers, but it
> is certainly not going to increase the number of professional
> recording and mastering facilities using it. I know from talking
> to colleagues in the business that the reason this software hasn't
> been adopted more widely is that it runs on Linux. People aren't
> familiar enough with it yet to risk using it to run their businesses.
> That'll take time. Making the default settings useless for anything
> but home demos isn't going to help.
> 
> Paul Davis has addressed the problem of usability by making the SAE
> version of Ardour, simplified for student use, available alongside the
> "full power" standard version. That seems to be a more sensible approach
> than turning what is supposed to be a professional mastering tool into
> what looks at first glance to be a toy.
> 

    Oh well, I might as well chime in here ;-)  I tend to agree with
John and Ron on this.  Right now the only processing problem with JAMin
is one that only Steve Harris (among our group of programmers) has the
knowledge to fix.  I've been using it for about two years and I still
would not call myself a mastering guru ;-)  The main trick with it is to
leave most of it alone and listen very carefully.  Subtract with the EQ,
don't add.

    The funny thing about the request to simplify the UI is that the
last feature request that got any traction was the one to add two bands
of compression, thus making the interface *more* complicated.  I do
agree that the UI needs to be redone but my preference would be to
completely redo it in C++/Qt4 (without the KDE libraries and without
using Qt Designer).  Someday, when my band isn't playing every weekend
and I'm not working 40 hours a week and I'm not fixing everybody's
guitar and/or bass, I'm going to look in to that ;-)

Jan

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