hello

are there any additional skins available? the default one is a little too aggressive on an lcd and the other skins i have aren't up-to-date with the current version of eXT...

and yes, i already ran out of patience with the gui editor

thanks

Have you tried the 'updated' version of Shifrin's skin? http://www.btinternet.com/~sephid/massiva/shifrin.gui ...it's quite nice.

nF

cheers nicfit, this is beautiful!

I'm working on a KvR themed GUI. No BMPs yet, but I have all the colours in...

[link to old, unfinished version removed]

pough wrote:

I'm working on a KvR themed GUI. No BMPs yet, but I have all the colours in...

Nice one, looks really good with those KvR colours!!

Shif.

Loverly; like how you minimized the grays.

Great job on the skin Pough! Its really easy on the eyes and still has contrast. I like it almost as much as your Tracktion skin .

AD80 wrote:

Great job on the skin Pough! Its really easy on the eyes and still has contrast. I like it almost as much as your Tracktion skin .

Thanks! And they'd both look a hell of a lot better if either jorgen would stop making changes or if I got off my lazy ass and updated them completely!

Actually, maybe I'll work on the KvR one right now while I'm listening to my NUBI groove that I composed in the energyXT sequencer comp...

Hey jorgen! How do I change the colours of the sequencer comp? I got white text on light green boxes for the MIDI parts... I have no idea where those colours are set...

umm, looks like I forgot the text color item

jorgen

Almost done!

tease!

Sorry! You can download and use what I have so far. Some of the buttons haven't been updated to the new look. Maybe I should ask for comments and suggestions before I go too far and then you point out how ugly something looks! I can't test it fully right now because I'm at work and I don't have an ASIO soundcard...

That's georgeous!!!can't wait till it's done.
Thanks pough.

nF

I think it's done! I just finished off the last few icons... unless I missed some...

Pough, that's good hues!

Yeah, I can now work on music and still feel like I'm here at KvR!

Its beautiful Pough! Its like I never left the forum.

Now when Jorgen finishes the web browsing component, I can boot my computer directly in XT as a shell.

nF

I still want a new improoved Tracktion skin from you Pough, so no slacking off for you Mr. fancy-skin man.

Oh yeah, the Tracktion skin. Hmm... I guess I still have work to do!

AD80 wrote:

Its beautiful Pough! Its like I never left the forum.

See above nice one!

Shif.

Gargoyle wrote:

Pough, that's good hues!

That's awful,Jon
ew

So I've been really intrigued with the idea of using eXT within Max/MSP... so I reskined eXT into something quite sterile, much like the Max environment.

I'm almost done with it, but here is a peek..



stripped to the bone, what can I say...

sequencer retro

I like it!

I did a new Tracktion GUI.

ModuLR wrote:

So I've been really intrigued with the idea of using eXT within Max/MSP... so I reskined eXT into something quite sterile, much like the Max environment.

Congratulations Mod, You have managed to suck ALL the fun out of EXT . It looks like something Opcode would make. Kinda cool tho, it has a 1980's Starwars feel.

pough wrote:

I did a new Tracktion GUI.

YES!!

It doesnt get any better than that for a Tracktion fan. Wow. You even changed the little In/out icons! Very impressive Pough.

You want impressive? How about a special extra version for those of you who need more green in your Tracktion/energyXT diet?



EDIT: BTW, there was a wrong icon graphic in this for a short while. Anyone (all zero of you?) who downloaded this GUI before I added this note should download it again...

You even have the Tracktioneske mixer handles . Excellent work.

that is beautiful work ... the tears must have been flowing out of your eyes.

Hey pough... that KVR skin looks great!

Can we get hold of a copy yet? If so, what`s the link?

and for those of you (like myself) who run more minimalist colour schemes on their machines a quick and simple little effort for my first energyXT skin ...



download it here if youre at all interested - pHz-mono energyXT skin (zipped)

slainte rob

So when you said my KvR GUI was the second-best you had ever seen, were you referring to your monochrome one as the best?

heehee ...

... even i am not that arrogant - i was actually referring to shifrins skin which i find most stylish and functional

slainte rob

It's nice to see some skins popping up now Always good to have a choice with how something looks!! I'll have an update to my skin in a few days, little tweaks here and there

Shif.

another quick one inspired by live3 ...



pHz-h20 energyXT skin (zipped)

slainte rob

I really like the monochrome skin, Rob. That blue one looks a little harsh, though...

heehee ...

... dont mind it myself - following the live3 model there could be some MUCH harsher ones to come !!!

slainte rob

I'm considering making a skin skin now. Fleshtones - which vary according to race, of course, but I would probably use my own skin or maybe steal skin tones fron naughty pictures just to spice things up a little. Hell, maybe I could make some "theme" icons, too!

Thanx a lot, Pough & pHz!
Really loved the KvR skin, though that Atari-looking one is a bit too gloomy for my eye... maybe cause I never had an Atari

I need shades to look at rob's new skin.

heehee ...

... point taken - ill tone it down later today ...

... hmmmnnn - have i got the patience to get into custom bitmaps ???

slainte rob

These skins are absolutely brilliant!

Question : how do you do it? Is there a skins sdk

iwallis wrote:

These skins are absolutely brilliant! Question : how do you do it? Is there a skins sdk

much easier than that - some careful colour choice and a bit of .bmp manipulation and youre there

slainte rob

ok - slightly toned down now ...



pHz-h20 energyXT skin (zipped)

slainte rob

and ANOTHER live3 inspired one ...



pHz-ice energyXT skin (zipped)

(right - ill stop bothering you nice people now)

slainte rob

pHz wrote:

... point taken - ill tone it down later today ...

I'll wear my sunglasses until then

pHz wrote:

... hmmmnnn - have i got the patience to get into custom bitmaps ???

It can be time consuming, but rewarding - I've just re-done most of the bmp's from my skin (over 60 of them) which will be ready soon. I was never quite happy with it! Then maybe a totally new design

iwallis wrote:

Question : how do you do it? Is there a skins sdk

When you're running XT right-click the background to bring up the menu and towards the bottom is a menu heading called 'Options...' (I think - my memory is useless). Well it opens up the gui editor! From there you can make changes to the colours of the gui, and add your own bitmaps etc.

Shif.

Thanks for the info. I should warn you - I am a bit colour blind!!

ModuLR!! please give me a link to your skin!! I like it.

Shif, yours is still my fav, looking forward to your update.

pough...I'm using the KvR skin as my default right now...I've toned down the yellow a bit ...the Tracktion skin is first rate also... but that green..uhg

pHz....ouch!


It great to have all these new skins to choose from...Keep em comin.

thanks,
nF

NicFit wrote:

ough...I'm using the KvR skin as my default right now...I've toned down the yellow a bit ...the Tracktion skin is first rate also... but that green..uhg

But I took that yellow directly from this site! It's the same colour as the "new topic" icon. Maybe I should have included more of the ugly light brown from the logo...

You know, I was never entirely happy with the sequencer icon for my Tracktion skins...

...

slainte rob

The "ice" skin is really nice Rob.

thanks ad80 !!!

(even if i did 'borrow' the colour scheme from live3 and its 'frost' theme)

ive been playing with ms paint this afternoon (really - for small .bmp work like this it rocks) and the ice and mono skins now have revised bitmap sets ...

pHz-mono energyXT skin (zipped)

pHz-ice energyXT skin (zipped)

slainte rob

Ok heres my first...AquaTek



nF

I finally got around to finishing my skin as well... so here's the preview and link.



As I mentioned, it's inspired by the Max/MSP environment (meaning.. stupid simple), but maintains that olskool vibe, no rounded corners.. with some splashes of color! Hhahaha! (what the hell am I talking about? )

ModuLR-Max

enjoy!

I just found out that I can drag-n-drop skin files directly from the windows browser to EXT!! Why didnt anybody tell me . You rock Jorgen.

...

NicFit wrote:

Shif, yours is still my fav, looking forward to your update.

Cheers ! The daft thing is, no one will probably notice 90% of the changes as I'm just a pedantic git and changed many tiny details

Kinda busy at the moment but should be up this week!

Shif.

Updated my skin a little bit.

...click image to download.

nF

That's fantastic NicFit!!!

Shif.

Wow - that looks great. Cheers NicFit

R zzer

Wow! NicFit, that's a great skin!

thanks! it makes my eyes tired after a while.

...so I still use pough's KVR skin as my default 90% of the time. Just so comforting for some reason

nF

This is my attempt at skinning XT. It is actually a modified version of NicFit's original aquatek with bits from Shifrin's classic skin.
Since I snagged what I thought were the best bits I call it XT Gold.





Hope someone finds it usable. I couldn't figure out how to link the download to the pic so Ill post it at http://www.xt-hq.com

MRT

I'm no good at this sort of thing but if anyone fancies making a Logic 5 (PC) influenced skin I would be most pleased.

Nice skin MRT, the different coloured title bars really make things clearer, especially in the sequencer's mixer section.

R zzer

aMUSEd wrote:

if anyone fancies making a Logic 5 (PC) influenced skin I would be most pleased.

I second this.

MRT, very nice skin, thank you.

MRT...that skin looks great man!! Nice and clear.

Quote:

I'm no good at this sort of thing but if anyone fancies making a Logic 5 (PC) influenced skin I would be most pleased.

Send me some decent screenshots of Logic and I'll start work on a skin.


nF

Anybody that downloaded my XT Gold skin and was put off by the weird twist-O-flex title bar will be glad to know that I've updated it to a more reasonable appearance. Serious lapse of judgment there.
Also I have a new skin Silver, I've zipped them together and there at XT-HQ resources.


http://www.xt-hq.com/resources/

Something to mess with until the new April beta. Yeah!

MRT

Thanks....

thats a great gui
I just downloaded it

nice buttons

some of the wires are maybe to dark,and the light one should maube be the midi insted of audio

but still its really good

Very nice one, thanks MRT.

BUMP!

Just thought I'd bump this before it disappeared to page two! Can we make this post a sticky? I think lots of new EXT users will find it very cool, I know the skins are on XT-HQ but I come here much more often.

Every piece of software I buy these days ends up with a forum on here! Are the developers following me?

That repair van with the blacked out windows outside my house is starting to bother me too... And is that a helicopter hovering above my house? Paranoid? who said that? Come on I know you're out there, show yourselves!

Bump again!

Time to update the old skins...

Here is the small update to my aquatek skin...(only the ic_rec graphic added)

nF

nF, thanks, skin is looking good

jorgen

Updated for the latest beta (April 22) with audio recording...

KvR

Tracktion

Tracktion (extra green)

the looks of tracktion and the brains of eXT, what more could you possibly want

Splitting and resizing audio clips in the sequencer?

pough wrote:

Splitting and resizing audio clips in the sequencer?

Amen brother!!! Spent about an hour recording Audio tracks of guitar and banjo into the sequencer last night, and finally got too frustrated not being able edit my mistakes.
I finally had to take a break from recording and threw a Chord component tutorial together to help demonstrate how it can be substituted as a classic type apreggiator after reading another thread.

nF

splitting? sure, no prob!
resize? you mean like tempo/beat map, stretch without changing pitch?

jorgen

Actually, I just mean trimming the ends, to remove inital silences and to trim off the ends (by moving the left side of the clip over to the right or the right side over to the left). I really like the way Tracktion does it (and maybe others, as well). It does non-destructive editing of audio clips. When you "split" a clip it just includes the same file twice, with different start/end points.

sure, thats how it works in the Audio part comp. Coming up in the sequencers audio track too.



jorgen

jorgen wrote:

splitting? sure, no prob! resize? you mean like tempo/beat map, stretch without changing pitch? jorgen

Just splitting would make things much easier for me ...some way to trim the beginning of Audio parts. But since you brought up "stretching" parts...I'd really like the ability to Stretch and scale the size of MidiParts and selections of midi. Should be easier than adding time stretching to audioparts.

thanks,
nF

One other thing: I recorded some guitar last night and it was only one one channel, but the clip showed two channels of sound! I wonder if you could either make a track mono or maybe show in the clip that it's only one one channel...

An audio track can play many different formats at the same time. But I agree, if audio input is mono, the recorded sample should be mono too. Already on my todo-list.

thanks
jorgen

Mono sounds cool to me, but the input wasn't actually mono. It's just that it was only on one channel of a stereo input and the clip looked like there was sound on both channels. I should have remembered to put the mono-stereo plugin BEFORE the sequencer comp input!

time stretching midi parts coming soon

jorgen

Skin updates for the latest beta (4-22)and some minor tweeks.
XT Gold and Silver

MRT

A new skin in progress...


Download

nF

OMG that is dope!

Hi all,

Just a post to say I've updated my skin in line with the latest beta, you can get it here :-

shifrin.gui



@NicFit Very nice work - looks somewhat like a certain fruity sequencer Looking forward to the release!

Shif.

Very Nice...Fit?

Has anyone else had this experience? Once you start skinning it becomes a little addictive?
MRT

Thanks guys,

ok...updated the link with final(for now) version...

nF

nice skin nF

I just found out I can drag and drop skin from winzip into eXT's main window, I'm not sure where the skin unzipped on my hd thoug Not a good idea...

jorgen