Moved from EigenD - Apple Silicon - #11 by thetechnobear
Question to judge which effort would be justified might be: Assuming we’d have a blank slate, which software would people want?
For me personally the answer to this question would be very different depending on which point in time I would have been asked. Initially I liked the no-assumptions approach of EigenD a lot, because my vision of how to use the Eigenharp differed in many ways from what was envisioned in the default setups. So I was glad that I could customize everything down to the last bolt.
Nowadays I think I know what I want from an Eigenharp and am happy with the setup I have - which can be done with EigenD and also with MEC - but I’d be happy with anything that can do that - the less error prone the better.
Reducing the complexity by reducing the flexibility would impose some usage patterns on people. So question might be: Can we settle on something that most are happy with?
Problem might be, it is always harder to take something away - if the default setup would have been hardcoded or even part of the firmware, then I would probably use it like that, am not ripping keys out of my piano either even though the layout isn’t optimal.
But would be interesting which stance others would have on this.