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budislav · Post by **budislav** » Fri May 23, 2014 7:04 pm

Here is my new concept for ZynAddSubFx user interface http://budislavtvp.deviantart.com/art/Z ... -455890191.
Design is very user friendly and it is based on one single window.
I worked on this project over six month. It is very hard to explain everything, but generally is understandable, I think.
Please answer on the poll. Cheers!

Ranjarresh · Post by **Ranjarresh** » Fri May 23, 2014 7:16 pm

Wonderful work!

murnau · Post by **murnau** » Fri May 23, 2014 7:18 pm

yep, looks fantastic! would be great to have this as real gui.

Shabdahbriah · Post by **Shabdahbriah** » Fri May 23, 2014 7:21 pm

Nicely done!

budislav · Post by **budislav** » Fri May 23, 2014 7:42 pm

Thank you people! If there are developers interested to work on this I would explain everything.

fundamental · Post by **fundamental** » Fri May 23, 2014 7:59 pm

I am very much interested in this, however I will be traveling out of the country within 24hrs so, I don't have much time for a proper conversation on it at the moment.
Unless I've missed something in the past this is the first mockup that both looks solidly great and doesn't resort to dropping parameters left and right.

budislav · Post by **budislav** » Fri May 23, 2014 8:53 pm

I'm very glad to hear that. Don't worry, we will find time when you come back. Have a nice trip.

artao · Post by **artao** » Mon May 26, 2014 3:18 pm

Nice. I like this MUCH more than the current interface. I hope it gets implemented.

FrettedSynth · Post by **FrettedSynth** » Fri May 30, 2014 7:16 pm

Awww that would be so wonderful, Zyn is such a nice sounding synth and you r design work looks great.

Chris-S · Post by **Chris-S** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 4:12 pm

Wow, looks good. Would be a freshup for Zyn.

Tricky-Loops · Post by **Tricky-Loops** » Mon Jun 02, 2014 4:52 pm

This looks much better than the default Windows98 oldschool GUI!

budislav · Post by **budislav** » Tue Jun 10, 2014 1:42 pm

Thank you all!

SoulState · Post by **SoulState** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 10:27 pm

Really cool)

The Traveler · Post by **The Traveler** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 5:05 am

Sorry to bump this thread up, but I was curious if anything had been discussed to implement this GUI concept into ZASF? It looks great and would be a nice update to freshen up this fantastic synth.

Cheers.

fundamental · Post by **fundamental** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 6:03 pm

The Traveler wrote:Sorry to bump this thread up, but I was curious if anything had been discussed to implement this GUI concept into ZASF?

So, development on this UI is moving at a glacial pace right now, but it is getting implemented.
The code is still mostly in the design->write->get annoyed->write it again->move-onto-the-next-piece stage.

The section which has been written and which is currently getting rewritten is available at:
https://github.com/fundamental/zyn-ui-two

In an effort to make this UI satisfactory, it's leading to the creation of a new GUI toolkit.
That might seem like overkill and unneeded reinventing of the wheel, however most toolkits don't address problems specific to synthesizer UIs all that well in my opinion (embedding, constrained aspect layout, embeddable rendering, binding widgets to remote (ie networked) parameter models, lots of somewhat unique display/interaction type widgets, etc).

Currently I'm working on this toolkit which I've named 'zest' myself and the skeleton is sitting on my laptop.
As things progress I'll likely push some things into a more public light as it appears lmms might be interested in the toolkit as they face some of the same architectural issues that zyn has had in the past.
When there's more activity hopefully some discussion will appear on the mailing list:
https://www.freelists.org/list/mruby-zest

The timeline to get the UI out is likely on the scale of years based upon the current development speed, though I guess that makes sense given its scale.

paulnasca

KVR Audio

ZynAddSubFX/UI Concept 2014

What do you think about new UI design concept 2014 by Budislav?