Nuendo and Cubase should have menus in alphabetical order

JDSStudios · July 19, 2020, 8:15pm

MattiasNYC:

JDSStudios:

A menu with 60 to 80 items, minimally divided in 2 o3 hierarchies alphabetical,

60 to 80? That’s a lot of scrolling vertically to select items.

JDSStudios:

makes finding functions much faster, and muscle memory is allocated in a consistent manner.

Not sure I understand the idea of talking about muscle memory and having things alphabetically at the same time. Once your muscles learn where items are then it won’t matter if things are alphabetically anyway. And in order to do so you have to access the items a fair amount. So conversely speaking one could argue that the items that one does not learn aren’t that important to find quickly because one doesn’t do that that often, and we know that because if one did we’d learn to find them by “muscle memory”.

And like I said, I don’t see how it’s a net positive for established users to relearn where items are in reorganized menus. I’ve already learned where things are. Why relearn if I don’t have to? Do I save more time than I lose? I doubt it.

JDSStudios:

Agreement or disagreement or constructive criticism are welcome.

If questioning my intelligence as a response to my disagreement (with a ‘constructive’ reason for my disagreement) = “welcome” I’d hate to see what “unwelcome” looks like.

I’ve been in this forum from the beginning, and I see that you have 4228 posts and some are helpful, but many are “pis*ing” contests
with other Steinberg users here.
I started this thread about alphabetical menus because many modern software has it, including other DAWs, and it speeds work flow.
My response was because you said it’s hard to follow an alphabetical menu.