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MIDI
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2019–2023), in 5 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with MIDI, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Poly aftertouch is hard to use effectively because of keyboard and protocol design2023-06-12
- MIDI is borderline unusable for anything beyond keyboard-style instruments2023-06-12
- 128 controller values make exact tuning like setting a filter frequency hard2022-12-21
- Custom articulation mappings make old scores unusable because mappings are scattered across obscure plugin configurations2021-10-30
- Confusing, organically accumulated quirks that make the protocol hard to work with2021-10-30
- Awkward to remap knobs to VST each time; not 1:1 and poorly labeled2019-06-25
- Poorly implemented tuning standard forces musicians into fragmented non-standard workarounds for microtuning2019-01-19