Since the very beginning Propellerhead software has followed a skeuomorphic design (designed to emulate the interface of real world hardware) for Reason which has been a unique selling point for them and has worked very well. However, as time marches on and higher resolution monitors become more popular, I'm wondering how Props will react. A few DAWs are switching to vector designs for easy scale-ability (Studio One and FL Studio spring to mind), but I don't think vector graphics would work well if Props continues to follow their skeuomorphic design.
How do you think Propellerheads can manage this in the future?
This isn't a rant or a feature request, just thinking aloud and I am interested what you all think.
How do you think Props will do it?
UNLESS - they are ALREADY higher resolution - the Props are fairly forward looking in these cases…auricle wrote:That's true but that means that all developers - past and present, will have to redo all their interface graphics.selig wrote:One other possible approach: higher resolution graphics will allow a level of scaling.
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Inkscape is a sort of Adobe Illustrator clone and it saves in a format that (at least in theory) IE can open and display - sort of like an EPS file. That is what I use for most of my album covers and can do almost anything I see on an RE GUI which suggests that the technology is available at least.
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Rack Extension interfaces are required to be created at a much higher resolution than is displayed in the rack, so all third-party devices are accounted for. It is basically guaranteed that at some point Propellerhead will update all of their in-house devices in the same way and that Reason will be making use of those hi-res interfaces for screen scaling.
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That's very interesting to know, thanksesselfortium wrote:Rack Extension interfaces are required to be created at a much higher resolution than is displayed in the rack, so all third-party devices are accounted for. It is basically guaranteed that at some point Propellerhead will update all of their in-house devices in the same way and that Reason will be making use of those hi-res interfaces for screen scaling.
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