KK3 UX Feedback

This is probably the last decade of "creative professionals" as the machines will do every part of the process better, including the conceptual level. I already see that in photography. This will at least cheer hobbyists as not being less-than anymore.

Although, people may also find themselves with an awful lot of time for hobbies, so creative hobbies may be a growth industry even as it's obsoleted as a human profession.

Humans aren't nearly so exceptional as we like to think...we are all painting by numbers, its just the numbers are fine enough few others can read them. AI will paint with even finer numbers, and have all of our experiences and feelings to express at once.

The very worst thing you discover at the end of mastery of a creative form is how trivial it all ends up being. These are very simple thoughts, with very simple expressions, "nursery rhymes for adults" and more or less just belched out carelessly. Then various "professionals" apply polish to increase credibility, but that's just factory work. And for a functional creator it's almost embarrassing to make such a fuss over so little.

We like complaining about the details of how exactly this factory work is done and how many steps we could eliminate. But this is obfuscation. It's ourselves making it complicated, because we feel it has to be harder than it is...why else would we not be dominating the charts?

People will want the best product, and only a fraction will swear allegiance to an inferior product just because it was made by their kind, out of nostalgia, politics, or guilt. Still, if nearly all of these product sales are effectively hobby sales, hobbyists should get what they want. And humble as we may end up, we should do a damn good job of it.

Well not to be a downer but, the knobs view is already available with the knob icon, we already see the name of the instrument, and with an S-series keyboard we already have the keylights. Avoiding the loading time is why they spend gigs of drive on preview recordings, if you want to hear the full instrument you go ahead and double click, pinning the browser open. Playing without a keyboard isn't a core usecase, although sometimes I'm lazy enough to do it when kicking tires. So I think this much is covered OK in what they've got.

One thing they don't do but absolutely must is remember the window dimensions including the column widths. I want two or three columns of instruments like you have here but instead I get just one little column of patch names, when patchnames outnumber instruments over 10 to 1. And it keeps resetting to a bad default. The primary value of a large, hires screen is having less obscured content. The settings windows also for lame reasons prevent you from resizing very much...they are still thinking VGA screens or whatever...when there are enormous scrollable lists in there. An awful lot of rowing forced on us. Just release those constraints and pin the window dimensions to the screen when opening. Is that a crushing mathematical challenge?

Also, resizing a Kontakt instrument in KK3 is really cringe. If you drag too fast off the drag widget, it stays in drag mode but doesn't know where to go. You have to go back to the drag widget to get out of that. And it also resets itself if you drag too wide. Gruesome.

There are only so many hours in a day, yes, and that is also my point.