Sorry to have come into this debate somewhat belatedly, Neumie.
Very often computer software design is a compromise, in that increasing the flexibility of a piece of software almost inevitably increases its complexity: more facilities = more decisions from the user. Hauptwerk illustrates this principle well. But we also have to accept when we are completely unfamiliar with the concepts of a new piece of software (as we all were when we first used Hauptwerk), there is not only the question of *how* to do something, we so often do not even know *what* we need to do anyway!
Sometimes the common online "manual" for a piece of software is not the most accessible means of finding answers, and printing a copy of that kind of manual for general browsing away from a computer is often difficult. This is why I wrote the book "All about Hauptwerk", (
http://goo.gl/S85xIq) which hundreds of Hauptwerk users (new and old) seem to have found very useful.
However, to broaden the debate: there is another aspect to how easy Hauptwerk is to use: that of "usability" in the more technical software sense. This is an area where Hauptwerk could well be improved. Hauptwerk suffers the same issues generally as the two main host OSes - Windows & Mac OSes, rather than Android, which doesn't currently support Hauptwerk, but which supports touch operations much more completely -i.e. those first two mentioned have a poor design for touch screen operation.
As an example, those pop-up control panels (for example Audio MIDI etc) illustrate the point well in that, whilst the functional buttons are fine, they have a tiny "X" for closing the panel, and a narrow single-edge border for moving it.
Also using your touch-screen for navigating general menu structures, (when for example setting up a new sample set) is as difficult in Hauptwerk as it is in Windows generally - it is simply not designed for touch operations.
So there are many respects in which progress is yet to be made. I realise that some of these limitations are inherent in the historical baggage of what is a very old operating system (Even in Windows 10, applications are still controlled as they were in Windows 1.3 from 1985!), and others are due to features of the programming systems used in the design of Hauptwerk's graphical user interface.
Anyway good luck with your Hauptwerk experience!
Kenneth Spencer
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