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  • Zalasur 🐸🇺🇦zalasur@mastodon.surazal.net
    Sep 21, 2026, 3:35 PM

    I have a confession to make.

    I don't like overly literal skeuomorphisms.

    This can be a bit of a challenge since I'm learning how to use VST plugins in digital audio workstations. Many of their front end UIs were made to look like a literal physical synthesizer or oscilloscopes, depending on the function.

    I think I can trace back this irrational hatred going back to the days when our family got our first computer that had Microsoft Bob preinstalled on it.

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  • 𓅃𓁩𓃕𓁹obot50549535@left-bank.net
    Sep 21, 2026, 3:53 PM

    @zalasur OK, that's now my vocab word of the day.

    But I also have an issue with those VST plugins. The physical thing they imitate was probably easy to manipulate with fingers but I struggle to operate the on-screen controls with my mouse.

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