Buttons, Sliders, and Keys – A Survey on Musical Grid Interface Standards

Beat Rossmy

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract:

Applications for musical grid interfaces are designed without any established guidelines or defined design rules. However, within applications of different manufacturers, musicians, and designers, common patterns and conventions can be observed which might be developing towards unofficial standards. In this survey we analyzed 40 applications, instruments, or controllers and collected 18 types of recurring UI elements, which are clustered, described, and interactively presented in this survey. We further postulate 3 theses which standard UI elements should meet and propose novel UI elements deduced from WIMP standards.

Citation:

Beat Rossmy. 2022. Buttons, Sliders, and Keys – A Survey on Musical Grid Interface Standards. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.21428/92fbeb44.563bfea9

BibTeX Entry:

  @inproceedings{NIME22_53,
 abstract = {Applications for musical grid interfaces are designed without any established guidelines or defined design rules. However, within applications of different manufacturers, musicians, and designers, common patterns and conventions can be observed which might be developing towards unofficial standards. In this survey we analyzed 40 applications, instruments, or controllers and collected 18 types of recurring UI elements, which are clustered, described, and interactively presented in this survey. We further postulate 3 theses which standard UI elements should meet and propose novel UI elements deduced from WIMP standards.},
 address = {The University of Auckland, New Zealand},
 articleno = {53},
 author = {Rossmy, Beat},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.21428/92fbeb44.563bfea9},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {jun},
 pdf = {87.pdf},
 presentation-video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPHY4_G_LR0},
 title = {Buttons, Sliders, and Keys {\textendash} A Survey on Musical Grid Interface Standards},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.21428%2F92fbeb44.563bfea9},
 year = {2022}
}