miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
No way, that's why it's equally important to get a schematic and/or test specs for each of your outboard processors. Like they just put "fast" and "slow" on a knob of a compressor and we're supposed to work with that :eyeroll: . Come on I need the attack release knee and harmonic distortion on this, I can't be creative without that simple info.
They have compressors with actual time marked in ms...so consider why you might want to know that info in some cases, rather than just a generic "fast/slow"....but that's not really what's being talked about here. There simplified interfaces that still provide plenty of technical options.
There was a specific reference to one-knob stuff by the OP...which IMO removes all technical information from a tool that probably has multiple technical applications operating at one time.
Unless you already possess the technical understanding, all you will ever know is that when I turn this one-knob...things get "warmer" (because that's what it says under the knob). So then "warmer" becomes your "technical" term for what that plug does...but it doesn't really mean anything in any other context.
It's not about everyone needing a technical audio engineering degree to record and mix audio, but most of the tools out there already have defined features and names, and when you converse with other people doing the same kind of work, there is a common language that means the same thing to all of you.
This is the way it is in all fields...both analytical and purely artistic.
I think that these days, the software manufacturers are simply pandering to the recording dabblers and the ADD crowd (or something like that) and they're looking to repackage things in more and more simplified ways in order to sell to that crowd...but I really don't think that means they are making recording a more "creative" process...rather, they are making it even more mysterious than it's been when it was only something done in big pro studios. They are building 'black boxes"...and all you need to do is turn the one knob.