MMultiBandAutopan GUI redesign?

[Tricky-Loops]

Specially for you, how about this one?

A step in the right direction, maybe some slight background textures would be nice (but not too much shadows, rather textures - for example wood or stone or whatever)...

Too much shadows are looking artificially, like PolyAna...

[Tricky-Loops]

I'm not in love with PolyAna...

No question this is the most horrible example! No wonder even a Bajuwarian guy like you - having the "Gemütlichkeit"-Gen with wooden walls and "Hirschgeweih" in his veins - does not like it.

Just kiddin', you know...

Let me tell you a shocking detail which may lead to my deportation in Bavaria

-- Tricky-Loops has neither a Hirschgeweih nor a Lederhosen and he's hating Schweinshaxn...

[elassi]

Back on topic: honestly me thinks we should not make Vojtech go crazy about the design. There's a reason why he was able to spit out so many plugins with focus on tech "balls": the graphic lib (or how the coders call it) could be used in all of his products. Thus no design guys with wage expectations had to be hired.

Guess a lot of customers profited from this - due to a more than competitive price.

[DarkStar]

A few ideas:
-- add some "white space" (i.e. plain background) between the main sections of the GUI (above the Band1 title, above the shape graph and above the Modulator buttons), to make them easier to distinguish,
-- make the nested panels (Synchronisation, in Autopan) a different colour to make them easier to see- I prefer a pale version of the current background
-- make the preset selectors (A ... H) into buttons
-- remove the version number from the Window Title bar (display it in the Information pop-up?)

[Tricky-Loops]

Back on topic: honestly me thinks we should not make Vojtech go crazy about the design. There's a reason why he was able to spit out so many plugins with focus on tech "balls": the graphic lib (or how the coders call it) could be used in all of his products. Thus no design guys with wage expectations had to be hired.

Guess a lot of customers profited from this - due to a more than competitive price.

Better design = more customers

There are even great freeware GUI's out there. For example, flavours of lime, I LOVE it:

[elassi]

There are even great freeware GUI's out there. For example, flavours of lime, I LOVE it:

Where's the texture? The wood?

Btw. a good example of "flat design" that isn't really flat...

ADD: and did you notice? It's full (if not overcrowded) with controls... no tabs, one-page-access...

[Tricky-Loops]

There are even great freeware GUI's out there. For example, flavours of lime, I LOVE it:

Where's the texture? The wood?

Btw. a good example of "flat design" that isn't really flat...

ADD: and did you notice? It's full (if not overcrowded) with controls... no tabs, one-page-access...

As I said, it doesn't have to look like real hardware, only some SLIGHT 3D or 2D elements. But it should be easy to the eyes, and that's why I LOVE flavours-of-lime GUIs. He even made Oatmeal usable with his skin...

[MeldaProduction]

Uuuu that looks really ugly to me . Well, I'll prepare some lime color scheme for you

[Tricky-Loops]

The question is whether you WANT to make a radical design change or not...

Otherwise we can make 100,000 suggestions for better designs, and then you'll say that you won't change anything, and it will be fruitless...

I'm sure there would be more customers who would buy the Meldaplugs if the GUI was nicer...

Anyway, I don't think that only some simple color changes, frameless boxes and a different font will have an impact - it still looks too scientifically, rather made for C++ programmers than for emotional musicians...

For me, changeable colors aren't the main thing. It doesn't look better in black and white or pink and yellow or blue and orange, either...

The same applies to the SynthMaster GUI - I cannot get warm with it, no matter in which colors...

[MeldaProduction]

The trouble is, you want the versatility of our plugins and still make it look "warm" (whatever that means). I don't think it is really possible. Before you were complaining there are too many controls, but then it turns out there isn't any more than in other plugin you were suggesting, and on the easy screen there are not enough of them.
So the result for me is that you simply don't like it for some reason, that cannot really be explained in normal terms, which is pretty normal, people just like something and dislike something else.

If you have some particular idea, please go ahead! Of course, I don't promise anything. If I won't agree, of course I won't make the plugins worse! (to my taste of course) But if you followed the development of the plugins, I'm sure you won't disagree that I actually implemented most of the ideas from the users . I just need to agree that it will be useful, despite I won't use that particular thing.

That said, I remember you only advised to remove the oscillator shape from the main window, which was immeditely turned down by me and others. Please don't take this personally, I just need something to grab, not just "I don't like that.". You could see that everyone is complaining on something else, people just disagree... that's life .

[Tricky-Loops]

I'm not sure whether you read my posts at all, so I'll quote some of them again:

A step in the right direction, maybe some slight background textures would be nice (but not too much shadows, rather textures - for example wood or stone or whatever)...

Too much shadows are looking artificially, like PolyAna...

From all these boxes there should be some basic controls ON THE FRONT PAGE and an EDIT tab where you can go deeper and adjust every other control. But not all controls crowded on the front page...

Less controls, other background, knobs, images, maybe some 3D effects and shadows...

Doesn't have to look like real hardware, just a bit more natural and less scientific...

[farfadetfarfelu]

Cool stuff.

i just hope the round on/off buttons and other black buttons on black headers (like the modulation on.off and synchronization on.off on your example, or the freeze button in the granulator)) will be more visible when turned on, like the red edit button for example.

A suggestion for MXXX, it would be cool if the band editor at the top could be replaced by the Mtuner as an option.

[MeldaProduction]

I'm not sure whether you read my posts at all, so I'll quote some of them again:

A step in the right direction, maybe some slight background textures would be nice (but not too much shadows, rather textures - for example wood or stone or whatever)...

Too much shadows are looking artificially, like PolyAna...

From all these boxes there should be some basic controls ON THE FRONT PAGE and an EDIT tab where you can go deeper and adjust every other control. But not all controls crowded on the front page...

Less controls, other background, knobs, images, maybe some 3D effects and shadows...

Doesn't have to look like real hardware, just a bit more natural and less scientific...

The first one with artificial textures, yes. But the second one is exactly what I was referring to with the no enough vs. too many controls, which at end of the conversation became obvious it doesn't really matter. And the last one is more like "yeah, do everything different" .

[MeldaProduction]

Cool stuff.

i just hope the round on/off buttons and other black buttons on black headers (like the modulation on.off and synchronization on.off on your example, or the freeze button in the granulator)) will be more visible when turned on, like the red edit button for example.

A suggestion for MXXX, it would be cool if the band editor at the top could be replaced by the Mtuner as an option.

Sure . The buttons are now quite different .
About the MXXX - I don't follow at all, what are you talking about????

[Tricky-Loops]

But the second one is exactly what I was referring to with the no enough vs. too many controls, which at end of the conversation became obvious it doesn't really matter.

Who said it didn't matter? Several people (including me) stated that there are too many controls on one page...

And the last one is more like "yeah, do everything different" .

Not everything different, you can keep the divisions, but different elements with some 2D and 3D reflections, slightly (!) colored, together with an eye-friendly background texture. I don't like only ONE color for the background, it never looks good, no matter whether in black, pink, green, yellow or blue.

For example, this one has a textured background that isn't too obtrusive, and it's a good GUI generally - the only thing that I like less are the circular reflections on the knobs: