funky koval wrote:I still don't get what makes Orion's mixer so special. It was the pattern bank per device workflow that made it unique. Every other DAW, except maybe Traction, has a mixer with volume faders, pan, sends and inserts. Graphically they might be represented a little differently but functionally they're almost all exactly the same.
Sure, most other applications have a mixer these days but it's a bolted on afterthought and wasn't there when I was using them. In Orion it has been front and centre from the beginning (I started with it at v1.2) and it actually looks like a mixer, master section and all.
It comes down to where you spend the most time. I spend comparatively little time in either the pattern editor or playlist, those are windows I don't need to see all the time. Where I spend the vast majority of my time is in the Mixer, and in individual instrument/effect UIs, so those windows are more important to me. AFAIK, Orion is still the only sequencer that allows me to see all my instruments, or at least the toolbars for them, and the entire Mixer at the same time, as well as all my effect toolbars. Everything else I've seen/used has the equivalent of the playlist front and centre, with other things like mixer functions tied to it. For my workflow that is a big waste of screen space.
