KVR Audio

WOK · Post by **WOK** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 12:41 pm

And another one for the steampunk series:

http://www.music.service-1.de/Radioskala1.knob

AnalogGuy1 · Post by **AnalogGuy1** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 3:32 pm

WOK, your work is amazing. Can't wait to open this up to see how you did this.

WOK · Post by **WOK** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 6:29 pm

jcsquire1 wrote:WOK, your work is amazing. Can't wait to open this up to see how you did this.

Thanks! (I thought already no one is interested or everyone is on holiday except me)

In fact I am still a little on trial and error with knobman (especially the shape-function seems like "a closed book" to me....)

duncanparsons · Post by **duncanparsons** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 7:21 pm

I was just dumbfounded..

osiris · Post by **osiris** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:59 pm

You guys constantly amaze me with your talent and generosity. Thanks SO much. It really helps.
-O-

Hlis93 · Post by **Hlis93** » Thu Aug 06, 2009 1:57 am

Hi WOK that is a really cool picture you found there, I was looking all over for stuff like that but didn't find a thing. Edges need to be cleaned up a bit so that its not locked into that background image. The needle really moves across that nice, looks like it was always part of the photo, the difficult part of using photographic images is making the graphics you add to it look natural and you've done that well I think

Good demonatration on finding, using and appling the right image.

Hlis93 · Post by **Hlis93** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 6:50 am

simple skin for a Reaktor ens I made for myself, I know its boring. Used Knobman and skinman for 98% of it, the LCD like thing is photoshop.

but not as boring as this one

Limeflavour · Post by **Limeflavour** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 8:54 am

I like guis that have the looks of the above ones.
They may be a tad bit boring as you say but they are very user friendly, nice work I say

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 10:12 am

Limeflavour wrote:I like guis that have the looks of the above ones.
They may be a tad bit boring as you say but they are very user friendly, nice work I say

+1

function over form anyday

deraudrl · Post by **deraudrl** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 2:52 pm

Limeflavour wrote:I like guis that have the looks of the above ones.
They may be a tad bit boring as you say but they are very user friendly, nice work I say

+10. When it comes to GUIs, a very small amount of "photo-realism" goes a long way: with my (rather old) eyes, I don't want to have to guess whether some blob of pixels is supposed to be the knob's position indicator or a specular highlight.

The two features of a GUI that always make my day are:
1. Resizeable, preferably without making a whole new skin. Way too rare a feature IMHO: Synth1 is the only one I can think of offhand.
2. Linear-mode knobs. Any VST whose GUI makes me move the mouse in a circle to turn a knob goes straight into the recycle bin.

deraudrl · Post by **deraudrl** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 8:43 pm

At the risk of asking an insanely stupid question...

A lot of the links and pictures for Knobman examples in this thread are doing something odd: when I mouse over them, IE7 shows a link down in the status bar like "http://yadayada.com/foobar.knob".

So far, so good. But clicking on it just displays the image in a new tab. So I try right-clicking and 'save target as...". The usual dialog pops up, and it proceeds to save the file as "foobar.png". It looks like there's probably a .knob file there: a 100x100 PNG file doesn't usually take up 500KB.

Is there some IE setting I've got buggered up, or is this a forum glitch? (I've had similar issues with other file types in other forums.)

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 8:44 pm

download and rename to .knob

deraudrl · Post by **deraudrl** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 9:18 pm

Leslie Sanford wrote:The idea with the slider thumbs is that you create the actual slider track in SkinMan instead of KnobMan; the track is actually a part of the background. The slider thumb then moves on top.

Not really a Knobman question (VSTGUI maybe?), but...

I've seen three different modes of slider behavior (assume a vertical slider):

1. You click-hold anywhere on the track (not just on the knob) and subsequent motion moves the knob.

2. Same as (1), but the knob first snaps to the initial mouse click position.

3. You have to click-hold directly on the slider knob itself to adjust the control.

What controls this behavior? Is it strictly a matter of which library/SDK is used to build the GUI?

deraudrl · Post by **deraudrl** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 9:22 pm

Kriminal wrote:download and rename to .knob

Yeah, I figured that out, although it took longer than it should have.

I'm just trying to figure our why IE sees ".knob" and reads it as ".png". And apparently the first portion of a .knob file is a PNG: if you leave the extension alone, Windows Explorer will preview the (initial?) image in the file, even on a computer that doesn't have Knobman installed.

EDIT: Everybody else went through this same problem about 10 pages into this thread. I don't feel quite so stupid now.

deraudrl · Post by **deraudrl** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 9:27 pm

Hlis93 wrote:2. Do you worry much about the amount of monitor space that is consumed by the plug-in?

Yes, but not the way you mean. I've got 59-year-old eyes and a 1680x1050 monitor: a lot of VST GUIs are smaller than I'd like. Way too many of them look like they were designed for 800x600 laptop screens.

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