[This topic is a "demographical examination" to find out the tastes of the users.]

What do you and what don't you like on the existing GUI of CreakBox?

How do you want to see the graphical user interface of the CreakBox?

Please write, what you think.

Your opinion could be very helpful for the development team.

Thank you.

It would be easier for ppl to comment if you would present them with a screen shot so they can actually see what you're talking about without going on an hunt & peck..

Thank you for doing it.

I've still so much work with the project at the moment, but provided this thread to get into some progress.

The new GUI is the same, exept the black middle part is replaced by a switchable control panel "patterns" or "extensions".

I'll post the new screen soon.
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Those step buttons have got to go, man..

Hi Agent

there is something i have forgotten to say about the seqencer sliders: If you click on it they jump to another note.

I think, the best graphical elements are the knobs and the slide/accent-rubber-pads. The old logo of creakbox with deep-black background i have learned to love. That's really underground stuff and box.

Should i ask in the keyboards-forum for gui developers? What's with the gui man who make the design for creakbox first?

What's about a name competition?

My first suggestion: Call it "aCidBOx"

Nice work here! A couple of gui suggestions for you.

The keyboard at the bottom would be easier to program if it looked like a real keyboard with the black keys offset a bit such as on a real keyboard. The buttons for the slide and accent would look better if they resembled round LEDs. Perhaps RED for the chaser lights, amber for the slide and blue for the accent. The knobs are nice.

It would be great if there could be a global kill for the delay which would override the presets. Ideally on the main screen thus avoiding a mouseclick.

The enhancements (especially the filters) are great and add a lot to the sound) , i think radio style buttons instead of a popup menu would be better for flter selection, again with LEDS indicating the filter selection. Also the blue font in the slider area could be improved, I like the tech look but maybe red or amber - again old school LED style like on those old radio shack elecr=tronic 200 and 1 kits with the unlit segments still visible but not lit. (This is pure eyecandy but since you asked)

This is a great project. Many thanks for sharing this with us and for putting in the hours.

Your description of the bugs were spot on. I like the sound of the filters and the interaction of the flter and resonance controls. It may not be a clone but it sounds very good to my ears. Looking forward to further releases.

Many thanks,

Scott Harris

I've offered my assistance with the GUI.

I have some ideas for this every since the beginning and I'll be talking to Agent 007 privately about this

Hopefully it'll lead to something as beautiful visually as it is soundwise already

Regards,

JMH

Hey jmh,

The knobs are boring and look terrible

I don´t like the gui.

like much more the alternativ gui:

http://www.kvr-vst.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47219&postdays=0&postorde r=asc&start=150

can´t post it here because I´m working,

maybe someone else can post it to this thread?

People!

The new project is not what we discuss here.

We cannot do so, because this is the bioroid support forum and not the Jackle&Hyde support forum.

This forum is intended for the original bioroid CreakBox, the current Beta1 release and it's further development.

Please don't post or discuss the "devilswhisper" project here, but the CreakBox only.

We want to keep the original CreakBox project still alive.

"devilswhisper" may be a complete different project finally, sharing only the base concept (up to a distant level).
The source code for the "devilswhisper" project will be written completely new from the scratch!

ps: Agent 007 is now Jackle&Hyde (changed the nickname).

Thank you.

agentoo7 is now jackle
tomorrow hide
and the day after ?

jeez..I can't keep up with this guy's nicks he keeps changing em so much..Orion, 007, now jackoffmyhide..what's the deal?

sickle666 wrote:

jeez..I can't keep up with this guy's nicks he keeps changing em so much..Orion, 007, now jackoffmyhide..what's the deal?

who knows

Nicknames are imaginative. Aren't they?

I (we) will do all business with the J&H pseudonyme from now.

Hallo Agent,

Have you been in the german keyboards forum the last time?

I voted not so good: It looks very fuzzy in a lot of places, although it might be a bad jpg you're showing; that blue retro font look dreadful and is quite hard to read; those lego-brick buttons at the bottom are hard to read pressed/depressed; the 3 parts look like designed by 3 different people, all with their own personal taste and different designing capabilities.

JonnySun 1.0 wrote:

Hallo Agent, Have you been in the german keyboards forum the last time?

Sorry, but when to f**k do I develop, if I'm endless surfing inside all kind of fora ???

amoebe wrote:

I voted not so good: It looks very fuzzy in a lot of places, although it might be a bad jpg you're showing; that blue retro font look dreadful and is quite hard to read; those lego-brick buttons at the bottom are hard to read pressed/depressed; the 3 parts look like designed by 3 different people, all with their own personal taste and different designing capabilities.

You're exactly right, man.
We have luck with jmh (who has introduced himself already here). He will try to fix something on the current GUI of the CreakBox.

This way we finally can do some improvements, but the original sources for the entire design aren't available to us.

Indeed. there were more than 3 different ppl working on CreakBox till now. All gave up finally with the project (on much earlier stage)...

Our intention is to deliver at least a somehow usable release of this project and to collect some experiences with this kind of synthesizer and it's users.

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Hello people.

I've been fiddling with the current GUI, testing out different controls, LEDs, sliders, buttons, younameit.

I've done this simply by replacing the sources with a resource editor to see all the changes in the plugin itself.

However, as J&H informed in an email, all controls can be replaced and so on, which means being able to start from scratch

I've spent the day doing research, checking out things I like, doing layouts and so on. About the only part of the GUI I haven't decided on yet are the knobs, but there are a couple of nice choices sketched now...

I'm having small surgery tomorrow - getting rid of my last wisdom tooth - and as far as I've numbed myself with painkillers, I'll continue with this (assuming that losing the last wisdom tooth doesn't result in going even dumber I already am ).

Don't hold your breath on any previews yet, most likely we'll keep it to ourselves until it's finished I can tell you though, so far I'm happy with the results (being able to do everything from scratch means stuff like proper buttons for the small 'keyboard'... but I didn't tell you that)

Regards,

JMH