Music Software & Interface Design: Propellerhead’s Reason

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Martin Keary, who makes the Tantacrul channel, reviews the interface design of Propellerhead's Reason, a music production program. It is part of his series of critical UX breakdowns of music and notation software, going through workflow, layout and usability problems.

HN people point to the series as a sharp way to form opinions about good and bad UX in music software.

“they've also put out a whole series of videos taking the piss out of the UX of most of the software in the field”

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@derefr2026 · in “Audacity 4.0”
Alternately, if you want to go on the same journey Keary (the person you mention) went on to form an opinion on what constitutes good vs. bad UX design in music/notation/DAW software, they've also put out a whole series of videos taking the piss out of the UX of most of the software in the field: - Reason (▶ this video) - Sibelius (link) - MuseScore (link) - Dorico (link)
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@camtarn2019 · in “Music Software and Interface Design: Propellerhead’s Reason [video]”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
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