KVR Audio

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:23 pm

grymmjack wrote:
Kriminal wrote:
grymmjack wrote:
Surely if this thing sounds great, and is affordable, the GUI is a non issue.
thats ok if you just use presets, but anyone who is serious about sound design and wants to mess with a synth will think quite the opposite.
Is there a flaw with the layout (aside from the size of the labels)? I'm not a preset creator I am a preset user as you correctly assumed. It seems like a logical layout? What would you change about it? How would you order things instead?

the fact you cant read much is a bit off a problem...

spaceman · Post by **spaceman** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:27 pm

grymmjack wrote:
spaceman wrote:the problem I'm having with the GUI is that I can't read a single f**king thing on those dials on my 1920x1200 23" screen.. and I'm sure the only one at all using such resolutions

otherwise it's a crafty piece of work
1280x1024 here and it's not so bad. 1920 = dualies yea?

no, just one 23" apple cinema display

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:39 pm

AdmiralQuality wrote:By popular demand:

A closer look:
http://www.admiralquality.com/spimages/ ... Cobalt.png

Blue is much easier on the eyes, and definitely IMO more legible. The relationship of white->blue pixel neighbor is less harsh and seems more legible.

grymmjack · Post by **grymmjack** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:40 pm

@kriminal; what do you think of blue?
@spaceman; lucky bastard

egarrard · Post by **egarrard** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:46 pm

I'm running 1280x1024 on a 17" monitor. When I resized the GUI in PS to 1200 wide the readibility problem went away. Also, the lettering on the black version seems to have higher contrast and is slightly easier to read. Just F.Y.I. Take it or leave it.

It looks great for the most part. I hope the sound is as nice. Looking forward to the release.

spaceman · Post by **spaceman** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:09 pm

grymmjack wrote:@kriminal; what do you think of blue?
@spaceman; lucky bastard

poor wallet you mean

bill fusion · Post by **bill fusion** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:14 am

grymmjack wrote:
AdmiralQuality wrote:By popular demand:

A closer look:
http://www.admiralquality.com/spimages/ ... Cobalt.png
Blue is much easier on the eyes, and definitely IMO more legible. The relationship of white->blue pixel neighbor is less harsh and seems more legible.

Oh my god here goes another oatmeal skin war

Z3R0T0N1N · Post by **Z3R0T0N1N** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 7:25 am

@Admiral:
any chance you can make this with optional scrolling window, with resizeable frame?
that way i could use it

pleeeeeze???

Dazza66 · Post by **Dazza66** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 11:14 am

AdmiralQuality wrote:Dazza66... Marry me.

That's the best offer I've had all year!!

Prajch · Post by **Prajch** » Sat May 06, 2006 9:27 am

Everything looks great (though the lower left is fairly unreadable). If I could make one suggestion, it would be to simplfy the names of all modulation sources on those knobs (I think the knobs themselves look good, for what it's worth). ENV1 would be E1, LFO1 would be L1, an so on. With smaller names, you'd be able to use a slightly larger text size, and the names would be more easily recognizeable since you'd only have to notice one character. As far as I can tell you wouldn't have any letter conflicts, and you'd reduce these personal conflicts.

All the modulation options look insane... can't wait to try this one out. I have one question though: how exactly does the amp section work?

AdmiralQuality · Post by **AdmiralQuality** » Sat May 06, 2006 12:24 pm

Prajch wrote: All the modulation options look insane... can't wait to try this one out. I have one question though: how exactly does the amp section work?

Typical VCA style. Each AMP can be modulated by ENV1, ENV2 or the keyboard GATE. And there is a modulation source and amount for the stereo pan position for each AMP.

Sometimes you'll make a patch where each filter runs into it's own amp in parallel. Other times you might patch the fliters in series (filter 1 can be routed to either AMP1 or FILT2's input) and then you'll only use one of the amps.

As far as the mod dials, I wouldn't go to one letter descriptions but I do think there might be some more room to make the letters a little bit bigger. We'll see. The only modulation sources I'm finding particularly hard to read on the dials are "MMIX1" and "MMIX2" (the modulation mixers). Might change these to just "MIX1".

Thanks!

AdmiralQuality · Post by **AdmiralQuality** » Tue May 09, 2006 11:13 pm

Little update for y'all:

Good news: New filter optimizations (as demonstrated in the new SCAMP 1.1, see http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1852346 ) mean Poly-Ana won't be nearly as much of a CPU hog as I'd feared she might. Power requirements should be quite comparable to other high-end VA synths, maybe even competitive! Phew!

Bad news: I'm still working on GUI code (there's a LOT of knobs! man...) so we're still at least a couple weeks away. Hang in there! Believe me, I want this synth done even more than most of you do!

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Tue May 09, 2006 11:27 pm

Thanks for the update, AQ: looking forward to this beast. Take your time, make it right.

fake · Post by **fake** » Wed May 10, 2006 4:16 pm

bduffy wrote:Thanks for the update, AQ: looking forward to this beast. Take your time, make it right.

And preferably "straight"

fake

.jon · Post by **.jon** » Wed May 10, 2006 4:18 pm

...and small!

Poly-Ana: Coming soon from Admiral Quality.