KVR Audio

ddsl · Post by **ddsl** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 6:26 pm

All of your knobs, speakers are great stuff Theo !

dover666 · Post by **dover666** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 6:33 pm

man, you guys make me JEALOUS!!! i wish i was this good...
(maybe i could concentrate if i didn't have this damn dog squeaking in my ear!! anybody want a rednose pitbull?)

l0calh05t · Post by **l0calh05t** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:21 am

here's a few of mine, nothing special, but i think the LED looks pretty good

l0calh05t · Post by **l0calh05t** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:48 pm

And here's the GUI I'm currently working on (I'm not much of a GUI designer I guess...), made with KnobMan and SkinMan (and WDL/IPlug)

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 7:09 pm

I wouldn't say that. Looks pretty good to me

l0calh05t · Post by **l0calh05t** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 7:14 pm

osiris wrote:I wouldn't say that. Looks pretty good to me

Thanks, but I just can't get rid of the feeling that it doesn't look right...

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 7:42 pm

Suggestions: With all those different types of numbers, it gets confusing. Perhaps just a dial with a display box below to show the value. I don't know how you made this, or if that's even possible. Black numbers against the knobs may make them stand out more and be easier to read. White/silver(gray) never looks right. Too washed out. Just a thought
Have a look here:
http://www.colorsontheweb.com/colorwizard.asp
This seems to be a good tool to find what goes with what.

duncanparsons · Post by **duncanparsons** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 2:09 am

Also, maybe add a faint splash of colour to the knobs to help group by function (rather than just row), so Attack/Release/Hold [timing functions] get a whiff of say green, Threshold/Ratio [dynamic characteristic] get a nose of red, Gain/Attenuation [level control] get a breath of purple, and mix gets a dilation of blue. Anything too overpowering would take away from the subtlety, so just dialling in a small amount to suggest a colour would work.

only a suggestion

DSP

l0calh05t · Post by **l0calh05t** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 2:28 am

osiris wrote:Suggestions: With all those different types of numbers, it gets confusing. Perhaps just a dial with a display box below to show the value. I don't know how you made this, or if that's even possible.

Actually, that was my intitial plan, but I wasn't able to implement it with IPlug... guess I'll have to go dig deeper into the sources for that...

Black numbers against the knobs may make them stand out more and be easier to read. White/silver(gray) never looks right. Too washed out. Just a thought
Have a look here:
http://www.colorsontheweb.com/colorwizard.asp
This seems to be a good tool to find what goes with what.

Heh... for gray, the suggested matches are... gray, gray and gray

The off-white text seems readable enough on my screen though...

duncanparsons wrote:Also, maybe add a faint splash of colour to the knobs to help group by function (rather than just row), so Attack/Release/Hold [timing functions] get a whiff of say green, Threshold/Ratio [dynamic characteristic] get a nose of red, Gain/Attenuation [level control] get a breath of purple, and mix gets a dilation of blue. Anything too overpowering would take away from the subtlety, so just dialling in a small amount to suggest a colour would work.

only a suggestion

DSP

Hm, interesting suggestion... i'll have to try that

EDIT:
Here's a quick mockup where I just added some colored metallic rings over the knobs in skinman:

duncanparsons · Post by **duncanparsons** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 7:39 pm

Well, I think it works, and making the colour just the rim is pretty subtle

In concord with osiris, it might be worth investigating a darker colour for the lettering of the values, maybe not as definite as black, but try #A0A0A0 or deeper (#C8C8C8 ?). Using black itself would lose clarity against the parameter names, and too light with the grey would conflict with the back...

Dunno, might not work

DSP

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:45 pm

the brushed metal bkgd doesnt work with those knobs, and the numerals round the knobs dont suit either

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:52 pm

Kriminal wrote:the numerals round the knobs dont suit

+1 Very difficult to read.

+ the On/Off button should be a button, and not a slider that you have to move for a binary function imho.

And the meters might be placed in the center too. Most watched feature in a comp.

Some nice things though in this gui

LtZ

l0calh05t · Post by **l0calh05t** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:26 pm

Kriminal wrote:the brushed metal bkgd doesnt work with those knobs, and the numerals round the knobs dont suit either

Hrm, what's wrong with the combination (knobs/background) and with the numerals (except for the color)?

Lotuzia wrote:+1 Very difficult to read.

Due to the color, right? If you want a caption/field... well, as I mentioned that won't be possible for now...

+ the On/Off button should be a button, and not a slider that you have to move for a binary function imho.

It is a switch, so you only need to click it. No dragging necessary.

And the meters might be placed in the center too. Most watched feature in a comp.

Some nice things though in this gui

LtZ

Hrm, dunno, I think it might be a little strange to place the brickwall setting knobs to the right of the meters. Besides, most plugins have the meters on the right.

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 5:16 pm

That color chart is kind of quirky-I put in black and it came out black, black & black. I found this:
http://www.computerhope.com/htmcolor.htm
And it has ALL the different colors. When I in gray I got the same. but looking on the color chart, their gray is very dark gray. So it's tricky.

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 5:21 pm

l0calh05t wrote:
Kriminal wrote:the brushed metal bkgd doesnt work with those knobs, and the numerals round the knobs dont suit either
Hrm, what's wrong with the combination (knobs/background) and with the numerals (except for the color)?

the numbers are too big, and dont stand out so well against that bkgd...the metal bkgd/metal knob combo is just something im not keen on, i prefer one or the other...

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