KVR Audio

michu · Post by **michu** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:59 pm

so, is it sidechain or emphasis filter?

ouroboros · Post by **ouroboros** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:06 pm

GaryG wrote:IMHO that's great. Aligning the knobs, rotating the vu labels, shrinking it down etc... it's all really pulled things together.

I agree

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 1:23 am

matt42 wrote:Hi,

This is my first attempt at a GUI that I'm considering using for a VST release. I'm a little paranoid about putting it out there so I thought I'd get some feedback here first:

Just a couple of things the meter area's still just a mock up and isn't scaled correctly yet and "Clip Monster" is just a working title to fill the space. I'm still not sure what it'll be called.

So yeah, any thoughts or constructive criticism would be most welcome

Cheers,

Matt

looks good man

you should be proud

PaulSC · Post by **PaulSC** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 1:52 am

Agreed -- significant improvements on an already-good design. Nice work!

matt42 · Post by **matt42** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 4:11 am

cpr wrote:I can't put my finger on the exact thing I am seeing, but the meter segments seem to lack the 'realness' of the rest of the look..

I think that's because the colour of the segments is just a flat single tone - but I quite like it that way. However I don't think segments will give decent enough resolution for monitoring the clipping so, I'll probably have to change it anyway.

michu wrote:so, is it sidechain or emphasis filter?

Well my first thought was a pre/post emphasis filter, but then I figured a sidechain would do pretty much the same thing, but would be more efficient and wouldn't add any ringing to the signal, so I think I'm going with a sidechain.

PaulSG, GaryG, ouroboros and grymmjack thanks for the kind words and encouragement

matt42 · Post by **matt42** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 12:48 pm

OK I've, not had much time for working on DSP, or GUI development. Here is as far as I got with this:

So, I'm thinking the main area that needs adjusting are the two large knobs in the top left? Also I need another control for oversampling options.

After that all that'll be left is the trivial matter of the actual DSP. Oh yeah, and a name for the thing

So, as before, even though I've left this for quite a while, I'd still appreciate any thoughts, criticism (hopefully constructive) or suggestions that you have on this. The improvements that have been made so far were largly driven by the great advice I received here

Cheers,

Matt

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 12:54 pm

I like the vu meter. Could be you need more 'depth in it. Everything else looks great but the logo could be larger and a different font. Not liking the yellow and black - it looks like a bumblebee...
Hey that's a good name!

glasgene · Post by **glasgene** » Mon Jul 19, 2010 1:05 pm

Hi Matt i think that looks great.

I'm not a Developer BTW

I was thinking that what might look good is replacing the Freq and Gain parameters with HZ/KHz and dB postioned horizontal in between the associated values instead of circular.

and maybe change the circular limit, mix and out to horizontal spaced centre to the value as you have done.

Just an idea

daz.diamond · Post by **daz.diamond** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 5:05 pm

looking great ... nothing to add as everything pretty much mentioned already

good work

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:02 am

sorry sorry.. just doin' stuff.. (looks nice

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abstractcats · Post by **abstractcats** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:53 am

This looks nice! Some one mentioned the "gradient" look of the color, I like it my self. Also, this looks like a synthedit creation judging from the switches?

Good stuff all around.

abstractcats · Post by **abstractcats** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:55 am

xoxos wrote:

sorry sorry.. just doin' stuff.. (looks nice )

I've got more than one cat and a beagle, can you do a vst that scoops litter boxes, walks the dog and sound like The Prodigy ??

xoxos · Post by **xoxos** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:24 am

more mel torme but yes

matt42 · Post by **matt42** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:06 pm

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. I think with the limited time I have to put into this I'll just have to keep it just about as it is now. Although the logo for sure needs some work.

xoxo you tying to be funny, or just take the piss

matt42 · Post by **matt42** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:12 pm

abstractcats wrote:Also, this looks like a synthedit creation judging from the switches?

Well, my other releases were all SE. It would be easiest for me to code it for SE as I'm familiar with the SDK, but I'm also toying with the idea of going native VST using the iplug framework.

But how do the switches give it away? Are threre many other SE creations with similar ones?

Thoughts on a GUI please