small control suggestion

[exh]

(originally posted this in Instruments until I was informed there was a Lennar forum)

So sylenth1 is a very nice synth. I've only had it a day so I don't have much to say other than what can be learned from browsing the example audio, it just happens to have a nice warm, organic sound that sits well with me. I've seen the developer hanging out here before so if he's still around I thought I'd make a small suggestion:

I actually had to check the manual to figure out how to use those waveform/filter source/etc. controls. It's not like it's horrible, and now that I know what the arrows next to them mean it's obvious, but until I checked I thought they were just up/down buttons, except clicking on them did nothing. I don't think I've ever had to check a manual on a VST for how to operate a basic control before, so my small suggestion is that, if the user clicks on one of these controls but releases without dragging, just increment the selection (and then CTRL-click or a right click could decrement). It's not entirely how you intended it to work but at least then clicking would do SOMETHING, and this is actually even preferable in my opinion for things like the filter routing, which only have a few options to switch between.

Also, as a side note, I noticed in a shell that a number of the patches spit out an integer divide by zero error. Haven't seen any side effects from this, it's never crashed or anything, but I thought it was worth noting.

Again, like I said, very nice synth. Great sound.

thanks,
eric

[Lennard]

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I'll probably change the behavior of the controls in the upcoming version.