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I love Nord's UI. Not sure if you would or not. They do have some menus, but most performance-useful functions are assigned to a physical knob or button, sometimes with a shift modifier. It's evident that a ton of thought went into the ergonomics, when I compare it to other keyboards I've played.

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Oh, there are limits to my tolerance of Shift modifiers, though, and they are small.

Something truly revolutionary, imho, would just be a row of about 32 Mod-wheels, all lined up along the back edge, some screens underneath, and nothing but flashy graphics AND VERY LITTLE TEXT (could even turn off the text with a dedicated key) ..

It'll happen, eventually. Someone will have the balls to abandon the washing machine methods, and just go freaky. It'll have to sound good as well, though ..

For me, a problem with a general row of undifferentiated controls is it is hard to distinguish between them in a performance context. I like it when the filter cutoff knob (say) is bigger, because then I easily know that's the one I'm going to be twisting.

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