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Some popular music production software are skeumorphic aberrations with practical but dated UI. They are very reliable but clunky. It is a shame that FLOSS has very a weak tradition with regard to UI.

Music production software looks right now like an unexplored avenue needing new residents.



> FLOSS has very a weak tradition with regard to UI.

It was not true on macOS pre mac app store. Open source apps extracted as much as possible of what was provided by Cocoa and guidelines, it was working very well. Mac app store, Swift, electron and the general advent of apple killed the appeal for the native app on macOS to open source developers.


Some popular music production hardware are skeumorphic aberrations with practical but dated UI. They are reliable, but clunky. It is a shame that hardware designers have a very weak tradition with regard to UI.




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