![]() Your DAW might offer something similar, and it's worth taking the effort to get all those plugs sorted into something a bit easier on the eye - and brain! 2. Logic Pro X users can call up its Plug-in Manager. You might take some control over the chaos yourself, creating categorised subfolders for plugins of specific types - assuming such folders are recognised by your DAW's plugin browser. Your DAW may be able to help, if it happens to allow you to organise your plugins into categories. By the time we're done, you will truly be master of all you survey! To discover more ways to customise your music production experience, get hold of the November edition of Computer Music (cm236). Here, then, we're going to explore some of the most useful customisation features found in popular DAWs. Some may allow simple things, like colour-coding clips, or adding custom icons to track headers while others might give the ability to utterly rewrite the layout and/or colour scheme, all in the name of improving your particular workflow. In many cases the opportunity for change simply does not exist - but our DAWs, at least, usually offer some means to alter their aesthetics to our specific tastes. It seems odd, then, that we desktop producers often readily accept the tools provided to us without a thought to making them our own, particularly given that software itself is so very malleable. As anyone who's ever toiled to build or acquire a custom instrument can tell you, such luxuries can often be truly inspirational. ![]() Some, like Richard James' homemade electronics or Eddie Van Halen's famous Frankenstrat guitar are built to cater to the artist's specific tastes and needs. Yet such one-offs can serve as more than just eye candy. It is partially for this reason that many musicians are drawn to customised kit.
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