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mgiambro · Post by **mgiambro** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 7:57 pm

janhardo wrote: Stupid world.. the only solution is to attract people by the looks of mulab

So true, but first impressions are so important. You turn up to a job interview . . Shoes unpolished, a button missing from your shirt (been there) . .. You may well be by far the best candidate, but already you're starting with a handicap. Apologies for the analogy

. Best I could think of at the minute.

Michael L · Post by **Michael L** » Fri Sep 25, 2015 7:18 am

FWIW, I think an important criteria for new Mux knobs is that one sees at a glance which of many parameters have been changed and which have not. I think @chuckwoods "fun" demo knob test 1 above 'scans' better than the current knobs because only the change is visible, and eliminates the distracting index mark.

bibz1st · Post by **bibz1st** » Fri Sep 25, 2015 8:47 am

Take a look at Zynewaves Nucleum synth, its not a million miles away from Mulabs either, that would be a nice clean look for me

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EDIT: Sorry for advertising someone elses product even if it is a freebie

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Fri Sep 25, 2015 9:27 am

mgiambro wrote:
janhardo wrote: Stupid world.. the only solution is to attract people by the looks of mulab
So true, but first impressions are so important. You turn up to a job interview . . Shoes unpolished, a button missing from your shirt (been there) . .. You may well be by far the best candidate, but already you're starting with a handicap. Apologies for the analogy . Best I could think of at the minute.

It's actually quite a good analogy.

sl23 · Post by **sl23** » Fri Sep 25, 2015 9:39 am

I wonder, is it possible to add a colour setting for either/both the knob colour and the knob value so as to indicate the saved setting of a parameter? Just a darker setting would probably be enough unless using dark colours for knobs, I'm which case lighter setting.

The point is, it would help to see after loading a mux which settings have been tampered with and also allow to reset one or two to fault to check against the original patch.

Imagine loading a mux preset of a synth, then you want a different sound so edit it, you can see which parameters have been changed, but also you can reset to their original position should you want to undo a change.

Not sure how useful the pros would find it, but us amateurs would sure find it very helpful!

Ideally both would change colour to indicate a differentiation from the original. This would also serve as a visual reminder to save the patch! Sometimes, when messing with presets, I forget if I changed something and so save needlessly. Might not seen like much, but is a distraction nonetheless.

bibz1st · Post by **bibz1st** » Fri Sep 25, 2015 10:09 am

Im pretty sure you can reset the back to the preset but cant remember where off the top of my head.

MuTools · Post by **MuTools** » Fri Sep 25, 2015 10:20 am

Options menu -> Presets -> Revert Preset.

sl23 · Post by **sl23** » Fri Sep 25, 2015 11:16 am

I realise that but that's no good if you simply want to reset one or two parameters on a front panel with 20 or so knobs! You lose the sound just because you want to reset a few parameters!

Highlighting which parameters changed makes that unnecessary and would help a lot in seeing what has changed and maybe what you need to change. At least for the lesser experienced.

You want things to draw new customers, that may help. Do other Daw's have that feature? I don't know, but would be one thing mulab has that others don't if it's not supported in other apps.

You design a sound, get it almost right, fiddle some more but go off in the wrong direction. This would allow some back tracking without a full reset.

MuTools · Post by **MuTools** » Fri Sep 25, 2015 12:12 pm

That sounds like a feature request. Lets please keep this topic purely about the looks. Hope you understand. Thanks.

sl23 · Post by **sl23** » Fri Sep 25, 2015 1:33 pm

Well it is sort of about looks. But yes, understood.

Does that mean you aren't going to consider it though? Would be a neat little feature!

MuTools · Post by **MuTools** » Fri Sep 25, 2015 1:51 pm

Indeed it's not on the M7 plan.

sl23 · Post by **sl23** » Fri Sep 25, 2015 2:46 pm

OK, maybe M8 then

:'(

MuTools · Post by **MuTools** » Fri Sep 25, 2015 3:19 pm

Lets see what the "Your biggest wish for M8" poll says then, ok?

sl23 · Post by **sl23** » Fri Sep 25, 2015 3:45 pm

Michael L · Post by **Michael L** » Sat Sep 26, 2015 12:16 am

sl23 wrote:

Perhaps Jo can move your posts on Reset and my posts on info popup windows to a new thread, "New User Experience" (with a M8 poll only for new users). If a big marketing campaign (e.g. with Tomorrowland) exposed hundreds of thousands of new users to MuLab Free, how could they learn to "enjoy making music" with max joy and min confusion and frustration?

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