KVR Audio

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Mon Jan 22, 2018 5:43 pm

wagtunes wrote:Shame that it'll never reach the masses.

I actually wish that it doesn't

fluffy_little_something · Mon Jan 22, 2018 5:51 pm

Wow, those GUI's give the word awful a completely new dimension

Even if there were a good synth engine under the ugly hood, who wants to eat a pizza that is disguised as dog poop?

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:06 pm

EvilDragon wrote:
wagtunes wrote:Shame that it'll never reach the masses.
I actually wish that it doesn't

You're right, these people don't deserve such a gem.

SciFiArtMan · Post by **SciFiArtMan** » Mon Jan 22, 2018 7:18 pm

wagtunes wrote:
EvilDragon wrote:
wagtunes wrote:Shame that it'll never reach the masses.
I actually wish that it doesn't
You're right, these people don't deserve such a gem.

This, from the person that killed ArcSyn with his constant bitching and whining about its imperfect GUI! Unbelievable!

Halonmusic · Post by **Halonmusic** » Mon Jan 22, 2018 7:49 pm

Interesting.

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Mon Jan 22, 2018 7:59 pm

SciFiArtMan wrote:
wagtunes wrote:
EvilDragon wrote:
wagtunes wrote:Shame that it'll never reach the masses.
I actually wish that it doesn't
You're right, these people don't deserve such a gem.
This, from the person that killed ArcSyn with his constant bitching and whining about its imperfect GUI! Unbelievable!

The green on black is very easy to read and the GUI is more than large enough. ArcSyn had text and color contrast problems that made it extremely difficult for me to read. It wasn't until somebody here made an alternate GUI that I purchased it because that one was excellent.

Yes, if a GUI is hard for me to work with, I'll complain about it.

These synths are NOT hard for me to work with.

That's the difference.

egbert101 · Post by **egbert101** » Mon Jan 22, 2018 8:02 pm

fluffy_little_something wrote:Wow, those GUI's give the word awful a completely new dimension
Even if there were a good synth engine under the ugly hood, who wants to eat a pizza that is disguised as dog poop?

Stop pooping on pizzas.

kokotte · Post by **kokotte** » Mon Jan 22, 2018 9:03 pm

and the ui is rezisable

sin night · Post by **sin night** » Tue Jan 23, 2018 12:03 am

Wow, my eyes are bleeding as much as if I was looking to a piece of Cobol (luckily I only look at screenshots of Cobol, and also not that often).

I think that green on black is kinda readable but fatiguing, while the blue on black of the sliders is not readable and really fatiguing.
Actually, I played around with similar colour combinations (I didn't bother to pick the exact colours from the image, it doesn't really matter in this context) with a colour contrast check tool and they didn't perform well, especially the black on blue (so there are some evidences supporting my opinion).

More power to you if you manage to work with a gui like that, I really couldn't.

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Tue Jan 23, 2018 1:25 am

sin night wrote:Wow, my eyes are bleeding as much as if I was looking to a piece of Cobol (luckily I only look at screenshots of Cobol, and also not that often).

I think that green on black is kinda readable but fatiguing, while the blue on black of the sliders is not readable and really fatiguing.
Actually, I played around with similar colour combinations (I didn't bother to pick the exact colours from the image, it doesn't really matter in this context) with a colour contrast check tool and they didn't perform well, especially the black on blue (so there are some evidences supporting my opinion).

More power to you if you manage to work with a gui like that, I really couldn't.

I guess it comes down to what you're used to. I can certainly understand people hating the look of this thing. It doesn't resemble anything of this era that I can think of.

Spitfire31 · Post by **Spitfire31** » Tue Jan 23, 2018 4:26 am

I suppose it's not skinnable?

/Joachim

Frantz · Post by **Frantz** » Tue Jan 23, 2018 5:06 am

These plugins are Melda's evil DOS twin.

sin night · Post by **sin night** » Tue Jan 23, 2018 7:21 am

wagtunes wrote:
sin night wrote:[...]
I guess it comes down to what you're used to. I can certainly understand people hating the look of this thing. It doesn't resemble anything of this era that I can think of.

I think the dev wanted a vintage-computer looking gui (and I'm fine with it), I understand its nostalgic appeal to some people (a gui like that is quite unique these days, it's really "hardcore"); however there are a lot of scientific studies on usability that strongly suggest to avoid a gui like that. Colours are the first and most obvious element target for criticizing those user interfaces.

I'm fine with the idea of an artist making a retro looking interface, but then it has to satisfy usability criterias if it's going to be a usable product and not just an art concept.

It's just a technical consideration...

kokotte · Post by **kokotte** » Tue Jan 23, 2018 9:27 am

i think, it's not a "product",
the dev made it for his own use and made it for touchscreen,
behind the ui, this synth have a lot of interesting concept and technologie,
watch is additive engine running on gpu.
for me, the guy behind tranzistow, Hrast programmer is a really a great programmer, and he have his own vision, like melda and Gol, i respect that !
but it's not for everybody...

Guenon · Post by **Guenon** » Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:46 am

These might be very interesting for the One Synth Challenge at some point. Maybe even in the near future. Especially Diodow, as the free version is fully functional. The added incentive of "do this many patches and receive a full version of Tranzistow" might interest at least some of the more hardcore synthesist OSC participants

Tranzistow/Diodow