Anyone like the color board?

[Michael Gissing]

[Simon Ubsdell] “I think Minority Report has a huge lot to answer for here – we have seen the future and we know it’s going to be touch screens everywhere”

Star Trek used to make me laugh that by the 23rd Century we were still playing with touch screens that beeped. At the risk of spilling the thoughts of David Lawrence’s thread into this one, DAWs have done the touch screen thing and the ergonomics and functionality has been shown to be poor compared to tactile programmable buttons, wheels and knobs. Have a look at a Fairlight Xynergi controller as an example.

Ergonomics is such an important thing for anyone who sits for hours in front of a screen and touch screen gesture versus dedicated programmable controller is a worthwhile debate.