If I understood right, the problem is with the layout...You should make the main parameters panel wider :



The knobs should not even be of different sizes, it's a bug in the layout engine. Additionally it's been a surprisingly difficult problem to make the main parameters panel be wider by default on first run. (And I haven't dedicated too much energy to solve that as the user can resize the panel anyway...Unfortunately it might not be the obvious first thing to do for the user...)

If your screen width doesn't allow resizing the main parameters wider, you can try hiding the parameter value texts :

Great, fix the problem, thanks for your fast answer !

Bump for 1.1.0 :

http://xenakios.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/hourglass-1-1-0-rel ease/

Great stuff! Thanks for the continued development on this beauty.

Hi Xenakios.

For some reason i can't make it work in my system. When long time ago i could open it without problem (an older beta)

I just download, extract the folder to anywhere, press the Hourglass exe, but nothing happens

Windows XP Home 32 bits SP2
Quad Core AMD3 Phenom II 3.2Ghz.

Do you know why or if i need to put the dll in somewhere?

Have a good day

Hello, sorry to hear that...The usual culprit for launch time problems is the ini-file. (HourGlass.ini which is somewhere in the bowels of the system like C:\Documents and Settings\YourName\Application Data\Xenakios) If you are able to find the ini-file, delete it and try again. If the previous version you have used is some really old version, it's quite likely the newer versions no longer work with the old ini-file. In theory these kinds of problems should be easy to avoid, but in practice it tends to be a bit complicated.

There is no longer a dependency on the Visual Studio runtime, HourGlass comes with that. (The runtime doesn't need to be installed.)

Also, a bump for the 1.2.0 release :

http://xenakios.wordpress.com/2012/06/30/hourglass-1-2-0-rel eased/

Hmm, this version worked. I didn't need to delete anything.
Anyway i was telling to you that i used the old version in another formatted system, before i changed my whole equip 6 months ago or more, not in this one, so it was really weird.

Time to test this beast. Thanks.

At last a new nice icon

Reaktor 5. Now shows in the HourGlass VST folder I'll be testing others, soon!

Oh, I wouldn't expect something like Reaktor to really work... With luck, it might, but it isn't anything I could help much if it doesn't in the end(*). (So, are you saying Reaktor previously didn't appear in the plugins lists at all and now it does?)

(*) I obviously can't install/buy/debug all of those kinds of complicated payware plugins...

Yes, it was not showing and now it does AND I just tried it and ..... IT WORKS !!!

Oh yeah, I'll do a list of what VSTs work and which ones dont, but It will be a while.

Just a basic thing i can't find out.

How to delete an envelope point? I tried everything, second buttons, middle, control, etc. But i can't delete them.

EDIT: Oh, nothing nothing. Control + Left Click.

Have a good day

You might want to open the View->Help panel so you can see some contextual help texts when you move the mouse around various parts in the app. Unfortunately these texts don't cover everything in HourGlass (yet) but they would have told you the Control+Click thing for the envelope points though.

Recommended bug fixing update 1.2.1 released :

http://xenakios.wordpress.com/2012/07/01/hourglass-1-2-1-rel eased/

This gets better and better. Many thanks.