Well.. When I start a new project in cubase, clicking on "new", cubase load the template I made to save time, like in Scope : it loads all the stuff I'm sure I'll need in a new project, instead to load this stuff agin in an empty project.zerocrossing wrote:New should bring up a fresh blank project, like every other piece of software I've ever worked in. Under "new" should be something like "Default" which would be a user definable template. Maybe having 3 would be perfect. Default 1, etc. Or just call it "Template 1, 2, etc."
But if you prefer to have an empty project when you click on "new", it's your choice and that is that point that is the best way to do : to give users the choice ! To give user possibility to choose as much as possible how they want to work and to have a maximum of possibilities, necessarilly, come from a complicated system that users need to learn. BUT ONLY if they want to have so many choices ! If they don't want to have so many possibilities, they can use some simplier systems. With 10 pages in the manual. User can choose... Indeed, maybe you made the wrong choice. More user can have choices, possibilities, more complicated is the system and not only in electronic music. I'm an industrial automatical machine technician and it's exactly the same.
I remember when I started to use Scope, I complaining on Creamware forum "I want to make MUSIC ! Not computer configuration !" But I was feeling Scope was a fantastic tool, so I learned and good result didn't came out very fast.. But now, I don't have any regret to have keeped learning that system !
You have to think what do you want Scope allows you to do... Mixing ? Recording ? Sound designing ? Having several synths ready to play ?
I use it with a daw and its VST's, I mix in Scope, go to have a listen in my signature ! I'm not a pro at all ! And when I bought my first Creamware card, I didn't know what a compressor was. I make music because it's what I like to do, that's it. I use modular to build fx processor I don't find on the market ; and for to do all this, there is no other system that can do that. But I couldn't do this 2 days, week and even months or years after buying it ! I had to learn computers, midi, audio engineering, synth programing ! No system on the market allows me to do what I do with Scope, or maybe buying 10 very very good hitech computers linked together with 8 cores each... I don't believe it would be simplier...
And I'm still learning !! (And this is my pleasure !) Go to see on BCModular forum !