jplanet, are you one of my customers? If so, which one, cuz I know them all by name. Nobody cares more about their customers than me. Nobody.jplanet wrote:AQ, if you read this forum for a while, you'll see that the trend is to support developers who actually care about their customers. So, if the synth has bugs in Tracktion, will you say that it's a low-end host, get with it, get a real host?
To see these statistics and still not budge just shows how stubborn you are.
I'm on a 21" monitor for crying out loud, how much bigger should my monitor get?
And Dazza, you can see the number of 1024X768 users increase from last April to now, and still say that the world is moving on from such LOW resoltion screens? Since when is a 21" monitor at 1024 low resolution?
Good luck with the product, AQ, but I'm not going to be excited about a developer who doesn't bother to research his client base for even five minutes (I found the reoslutions survey within 10 seconds on Google).
I could understand if you had a decade of experience in devlopment, but this is only your second product. Listening and learning should be key components of your approach this early on, not "this is what I got -- deal with it".
Cheers,AdmiralQuality wrote:pakana... it's called the minimize button. (Or try Ctrl-Tab!) Sorry, but you probably won't be easily able to play the mixer and the synth-knobs at the same time. (But I can't do that with any of the other powerful VA synths that I consider competition.)
You only have one mouse anyway. One hand is permanently tied behind your back in imaginary interface land.
And, it should fit FINE in 1280x800. Hide your taskbar maybe.
You could have so many customers that you couldn't possibly know them all by name...aim for THAT situation!AdmiralQuality wrote:
jplanet, are you one of my customers? If so, which one, cuz I know them all by name. Nobody cares more about their customers than me. Nobody.
It just may be though, for whatever reason, that this product isn't for you. As should be obvious from the many disparate opinions voiced in this thread, it's impossible to please everybody.
And again, again, again. I'm on a 17" screen. Size DOES NOT matter. Resolution (and monitor dot pitch) does. (And 1024, on ANY size screen, IS low resolution! We used to call that SVGA in 1993. Moore's Law, where are you when I need you?)
Here's a difference: One is *yet another implementation*, made out of a 3rd party product (SynthEdit) that we've all very familair with by now. And the other is a *completely unique new product*, developed in C++. It's just not targeted to the "free-synth" crowd, even though it will probably be within your range of affordability. (Maybe I should rethink that part. Since this is intended as high-end, maybe a high-end price would actually help manage expectations...).jon wrote: I know you didn't, and we all have opinions. Anyway I wasn't really slagging you or Krakli off, I just see a lot in common with Karnage and Poly-Ana - both are red & fuzzy.
Carry on though! You all get to have an opinion, and nobody's right or wrong. Its all purely subjective. I AM taking much of this advice to heart, and yes, some of it I'm just ignoring cuz it's just not where I'm coming from. Gotta do what I do, and this is it.This so-called "resolution" is a relative measure. To make it a relevant one with regard to readability you of course have to relate that "resolution" to some abolutes numbers. This is because the eyes' resolution is physically limited. To follow your logic a display of any size would be best suited as long as it can do XXXX x YYYY.AdmiralQuality wrote:I'm on a 17" screen. Size DOES NOT matter. Resolution (and monitor dot pitch) does. (And 1024, on ANY size screen, IS low resolution! We used to call that SVGA in 1993. Moore's Law, where are you when I need you?)
AdmiralQuality wrote:
Here's a difference: One is *yet another implementation*, made out of a 3rd party product (SynthEdit) that we've all very familair with by now. And the other is a *completely unique new product*, developed in C++. It's just not targeted to the "free-synth" crowd, even though it will probably be within your range of affordability. (Maybe I should rethink that part. Since this is intended as high-end, maybe a high-end price would actually help manage expectations...)
Oh, so how come you eneded up with that GUI then?AdmiralQuality wrote:And I've got 17 years of professional GUI-ing, graphics for film and video, special effects, game development, and more web dev than I care to admit.
This wouldn't help her...the problem is large paragraphs are image-text. The alt tag would contain literally hundred of words!AdmiralQuality wrote:jplanet... Consider using the ALT field in your IMG tags on your web pages. You'll have happier clients.
Do not misunderstand me, the design is BEAUTIFUL, and is obviously the work of someone with extensive design experience. It's just the usability factor.AdmiralQuality wrote: Oh and your example you mentioned, is EXACTLY what I don't want. And I've got 17 years of professional GUI-ing, graphics for film and video, special effects, game development, and more web dev than I care to admit. It's actually DSP that I don't know anything about (though I do, I just haven't bothered to DO anything about it till now, music was always too precious to me to do for some other boss. I've been saving that particular media application, my first love, for me.)
I hear you, that's a cool attitude and more people should follow!Really, what's the point of doing what everyone else does? Certainly hard to do anything BETTER if you take that approach.
Cool! This sounds more promising and flexible than what I had read before. Bring it on!AdmiralQuality wrote:We're in agreement then jp cuz, as I thought I mentioned several times here already, it WILL have a live text parametric read-out (Have you tried SCAMP? Same deal.) I could do it overlay style too (where it floats following the mouse pointer) but I don't like that much. Still, we're talking a day's work, that I can do ANY time... AFTER I'm done. So... I hear ya man!!! Don't worry. The only things I'm really married to is the overall size, perspective, layout (though there WILL be changes... always are), and the rooster-heads.
And, it will also (probably) have a choice of another kind of selector for those who don't like the dials. Like I said, if once released I get 100s of emails telling me "I'd buy this synth right now if not for the stupid knobs" then I'll happily spend a day or two changing them. But for now, I'm building the knobs *I* want, cuz, for the next few weeks anyway, I'm the only user. (And I think there are others like me, and in fact my inbox is full of encouraging words from those people. For some reason praise comes in PMs and emails, and complaints in public on the board. But if you could see the real ratio, it's not as discouraging as this thread might lead you to believe.)
Anyway, not trying to be a bitch. But it's a baby/bathwater thing and if someone is THAT against the baby, why would I pander to their expectations? They'll never buy it anyway. I'm trying to offer a little bit of change here, provide some new and hopefully exciting OPTIONS, not make more of the same-old stuff. Really, what's the point of doing what everyone else does? Certainly hard to do anything BETTER if you take that approach.
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