[justaaron]

analog metaphors to physical world objects are INTENTIONAL here!

otherwise why would you pay MONEY for software when you already bought the computer and you could instead shell-out for a glorified paperweight ermmm a dedicated processor running the same software in a fancy box! (replete with slow knob-control response, just like the plugin running on a 486 and the worst midi interface the market doesn't even sell anymore, as it was made with desktop software tools and that guy who coded the original 6502 synth that ran 500 oscillators oversampled 5 million times retired last year and he's busy doing cobol for money anyway...but I digress)