[linux-audio-user] i'm a graphic designer - use me! ;-)

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Subject: [linux-audio-user] i'm a graphic designer - use me! ;-)
From: iriXx (m@irixx.org)
Date: Wed Jan 22 2003 - 17:53:43 EET


actually i've worked with those sorts of apps, like Reason, in windows
*cough splutter*... and i find them really annoying to work with...
knobs dont actually translate very well into mouse usage!!! you end up
struggling to control the thing... although generally it runs on the y
axis up and down.... which is kinda counter-intuitive to using a knob in
3 dimensions!

there seems to be a fashion for this sort of stuff now... i dont find it
very helpful as i'm from the bizarre generation that has done all their
work inside of a computer... earlier on in my studies i did do the
basics of analog synthesis with oscillators etc, but i find myself lost
when i go into a studio full of hardware - this is also mainly because
im dyspraxic - so i dont find connecting a load of wires to each other a
very helpful way of setting up... using a few commands is much easier
for me!

i am a graphic designer by trade though and would be very happy to offer
my 'services' to anyone who is interested in gui design - not being a
programmer i've been frustrated at my inability to contribute back to
the free software community. but i also notice so often that windows and
mac in particular have the edge with the nice gui apps at the moment...
its sad to say but all these nice guis are what are attracting people to
those platforms... and it *does* make them a lot easier to use. i figure
this is because most of the gnu/linux community are programmers first
and foremost... so we've got lots of great apps... but i find the look
and feel of the bare toolkits frustrating at times...

so please... if you want a nice graphic design, i'd be more than happy
to help! :-)

bw

m~

> I'm not particularly interested in copying hardware, some companies go way
> too far*, but its easy to copy (theres tons of it in every studio) and its
> a familiar metaphor.
>
> * I've seen a screenshot of a piece of audio software that you could turn
> round and it had a 3pin IEC mains socket (with warning label) and a bunch
> of XLRs on the back. Now that's stupid.
>
> - Steve
>
>

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