lol ya I BET its off topic.

guitarzan_josh wrote:

 

I hate that I have to turn ON an effect before editing the parameters.  Small.. but irritating.  I also wish that the effects would move based on the signal chain.  Its a P.I.T.A. to try to find the effect.  Again, trivial, but it still is not ergonomic!

Agreed!

Logic amp designer is pretty, but that's all.  Pretty does not mean the same thing as good interface design.

For a start, lets say you wanted to move that amp around in the chain.  Not possible, why?  because Amp designer is designed to be a single insert on an audio track, you've not included that in the design proposal.  Dual amps?  Again not really feasible from within that interface without sending to a second track, i.e. you have to include the butt ugly logic track insert design as well in order to match functionality, and it's just not designed for the same purpose as this.  It's sub-optimal design being shoehorned into the wrong thing.

I'll be honest, I don't care nor want to see a naff CG render of an amp to make me feel all warm inside and that i'm playing with a real amp.  It's a crock.

All I want from a gui is simplicity and speedy workflow so I can focus on the sound and not on paging through a heap of bad renders of amps.

I'm happy with the Line 6 chain system, it's analogous to a pedal board.

I'm not happy that I can't just drag & drop units around but have to use little arrows at the corner of the screen though, and that changing their order doesn't change the order of their GUI's in the list below the chain.

I'm happy that I can see multiple units settings at once to copmare and quickly change values without having to select them first or try to peer at silly tiny "virtual knobs".

I'm not happy that the GUI's are all squashed in to try and fit a single "slot" when clearly they shouldn't be.

I'm happy that the way to select amps isn't a horrible cover flow system that would take forever to get to what I want as soon as you get more than 4 amps.

I'm not happy that when I want to pick an Amp the dropdown automatically jumps to the bottom end of hte list rather than where I was before and there's no other way of scrolling through the entries in a better/grouped fashion (grid based popup would be better, or logical grouping by style).

There's all sorts of positives and negatives to the HD edit GUI, however I don't think that Logics amp designer is any better or even as good, it just doesn't have anywhere near the number of positives GUI wise to make me want such a simplified and limiting design, nor such a painful way to set up patches.  Utilitarian may not always be pretty, but it is functional and people aren't going to be looking at how pretty my patches are laid out.  They and I only care about how I sound.