KVR Audio

mystran · Post by **mystran** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 10:54 pm

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

Yeah well, it depends on whatever the guy that wrote the code for the slider wanted, so either depends on lib/sdk for stock controls, or plugin writer if they made their own control (or modified an existing one).

Hlis93 · Post by **Hlis93** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 11:37 pm

deraudrl wrote:
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.

probably becasue they are

. I have a large monitor myself so at first I go for the GUI that make sense for me using space for easy of access and for the space I have, then I shrink it redesign it etc etc know that most will be working on the ultra small laptop...but I do like to conserve space, if it only need to have 4-8px between objects thats all it needs etc.

Hlis93 · Post by **Hlis93** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 4:23 am

Little fun to change things up for myself this evening. I tried my best to emulate the Mopho hardware device in Skinman/Knobman. I did have to do a little editing in Photoshop. Had to clip the circles to size and add the line around the text for the Mopho logo. Other then that its all done in skinman/knobman. Not sure if I would call it photo realistic but that was the goal of the practice.

file:http://www.box.net/shared/b37crbdevr

heres the real thing from DSI page:

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brok landers · Post by **brok landers** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 5:10 am

deraudrl wrote:>snip< I'm just trying to figure our why IE sees ".knob" and reads it as ".png". >snip<

because in a .knobfile an png is embedded, for the knobfile to be previewed in whatever picture viewer ... that's what i.e. captures, as it can't open a .knobfile, as it doesn't know it ...

duncanparsons · Post by **duncanparsons** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:04 am

Hlis93 wrote:

Good job there

It's great what can be achieved with this combo now!

When I first saw the 'For Practice', I misread it as 'For Prance', and thought you were very homorously sending up the 'what are the best synths for trance' questions that get asked.. A whole new synth devoted to prance would be awesome, that might be my DC09 entry! (if I get time to make something..)

Hlis93 · Post by **Hlis93** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 12:59 pm

can you make trance without a virus?

duncanparsons · Post by **duncanparsons** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 1:38 pm

it'll be a virus that makes you prance!

Hlis93 · Post by **Hlis93** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 6:11 pm

a few widgets I made but dont use, perhaps they might aid in those that want to make that circuit board background

http://www.box.net/shared/jjpuh1nvig

alterex_vst · Post by **alterex_vst** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:51 pm

Hlis93 wrote:Little fun to change things up for myself this evening. I tried my best to emulate the Mopho hardware device...

Very nice

!

brok landers · Post by **brok landers** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 5:05 pm

so i have a questions for you graphic guru's:

i have to do a advertising graphic for use in a printed magazine, i'm going to do it in skinman.
it must be din a4, professional printable. what's the size i have to set up in the canvas for the project?
i don't know the dpi that skinman uses, and as i read, this has to be known before setting the size ...

Pat2070 · Post by **Pat2070** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 5:19 pm

brok landers wrote:so i have a questions for you graphic guru's:

i have to do a advertising graphic for use in a printed magazine, i'm going to do it in skinman.
it must be din a4, professional printable. what's the size i have to set up in the canvas for the project?
i don't know the dpi that skinman uses, and as i read, this has to be known before setting the size ...

Projects for print need to be at a minimum of 300dpi. The more the better imo, although that will start eating up lots of memory.

You also need to check with the printer/publisher what margin sizes are required. Again, minimum of 3mm is advisable.

WOK · Post by **WOK** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:50 pm

Just another quick experiment for the steampunk series:

Download

Keith99 · Post by **Keith99** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:05 pm

Very nice! It would be good to use that with a little bounce as the needle hits the end

Hlis93 · Post by **Hlis93** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 4:09 am

WOK wrote:Just another quick experiment for the steampunk series:

Download

It's nice wok.

However, its very large file exported. This brings me to another question concerning the practical application animations in plug-ins and how people are doing them. For me it would be better to cut the image down to just the needle and use the image of the meter as part of the background image, no need to have the full VU in every frame since its static and doesn't have any internally moving parts. I'm always looking to cut things out of the animation and make it part of the background. So I guess the question is does any one do this as well?
…Or perhaps I'm just a bit late on the practical insight everyone else already knows...

Christian Budde · Post by **Christian Budde** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 4:44 am

Hi

In the past I've often done the animations having a background layer, a 'needle' layer and a half transparent glass/effect layer on top of it.
From a subjective perspective that gave the best results.

Christian

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