KVR Audio

fluffy_little_something · Wed Mar 23, 2016 12:18 am

I played around a bit in Paint, changed a few things (button colors, envelope slider travel and grouping, knob markers, randomize dice) to improve usability without changing the size...

https://app.box.com/s/h4zlqbuwb40s33ejzjg5u51gpxbrj1wv

layzer · Post by **layzer** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 1:05 am

sounds good, but man.... dont you ever read all the bitching about how ugly SYNTH1 is???????

fup4000 · Post by **fup4000** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:53 am

Robmobius wrote:
fup4000 wrote:Hello,
its not showing up in Ableton.. any idea why?
show's up in Logic fine.
thanks
Show's up in mine no problem...

As a AU?
& is it coming under the companies name ?
Thanks

bftucker · Post by **bftucker** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 12:19 pm

I like the GUI and it doesn't remind me of Synth 1. Psychicmodulation, was there any particular inspiration for your choice of colorway? It reminds me of '20's illustrations.

jsp1979 · Post by **jsp1979** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 12:49 pm

Phonec is "inspired by the mystique of video logos you hear at the beginning of worn out VHS tapes."

So, the sound and, I imagine, the colors were meant to recall those video logos.

elxsound · Post by **elxsound** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 1:07 pm

I also love the UI (just not the size). I think it fits in perfectly with the character of the synth, and definitely reminds me of those old video logos. I did agree with Fluffy about the colors of some of the text labels (black on read), but the dev has already said he would work on it.

elxsound · Post by **elxsound** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 1:09 pm

fup4000 wrote:
Robmobius wrote:
fup4000 wrote:Hello,
its not showing up in Ableton.. any idea why?
show's up in Logic fine.
thanks
Show's up in mine no problem...
As a AU?
& is it coming under the companies name ?
Thanks

AU is not appearing in Ableton for me either. The VST is though.

And on that note... The presets are browseable via Push 2 on the VST, which is a major plus.

fluffy_little_something · Wed Mar 23, 2016 3:34 pm

Is the upgrade offer time-limited? Currently I can't use v2 because of the GUI, but if it gets improved, I would upgrade later on.

Regarding the oscillators, filter etc., is it basically the standard Chris Kerry code taken out of Chris Kerry's common SE modules?

jack [psychicmodulation] · Wed Mar 23, 2016 4:09 pm

fluffy_little_something wrote:Is the upgrade offer time-limited? Currently I can't use v2 because of the GUI, but if it gets improved, I would upgrade later on.

The offer is not time limited.

Regarding the oscillators, filter etc., is it basically the standard Chris Kerry code taken out of Chris Kerry's common SE modules?

Phonec 2 was coded by Chris Kerry. The oscillators and filters used are based on his modules, yes.

jack [psychicmodulation] · Wed Mar 23, 2016 4:10 pm

elxsound wrote:
fup4000 wrote:
Robmobius wrote:
fup4000 wrote:Hello,
its not showing up in Ableton.. any idea why?
show's up in Logic fine.
thanks
Show's up in mine no problem...
As a AU?
& is it coming under the companies name ?
Thanks
AU is not appearing in Ableton for me either. The VST is though.

And on that note... The presets are browseable via Push 2 on the VST, which is a major plus.

Ok, I'm going to look into this further...

jack [psychicmodulation] · Wed Mar 23, 2016 4:18 pm

bftucker wrote:I like the GUI and it doesn't remind me of Synth 1. Psychicmodulation, was there any particular inspiration for your choice of colorway? It reminds me of '20's illustrations.

I wrote a blog post about this a while back while designing the original GUI:
http://psychicmodulation.com/blog/2012/ ... spiration/
The inspiration comes from vintage electronic devices. It's based on what I imagine a synthesizer used in these video logos would look like today. An obscure device from the late 70s or early 80s, minimalist in design, slightly yellowed with age.

fluffy_little_something · Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:04 pm

jack [psychicmodulation] wrote:
bftucker wrote:I like the GUI and it doesn't remind me of Synth 1. Psychicmodulation, was there any particular inspiration for your choice of colorway? It reminds me of '20's illustrations.
I wrote a blog post about this a while back while designing the original GUI:
http://psychicmodulation.com/blog/2012/ ... spiration/
The inspiration comes from vintage electronic devices. It's based on what I imagine a synthesizer used in these video logos would look like today. An obscure device from the late 70s or early 80s, minimalist in design, slightly yellowed with age.

Oh, I didn't know that about the yellowish color, so forget my design a couple of posts back

Was it white plastic that turned yellow? All our devices I remember from the 70s were made of wood, metal, and black plastic

Maybe it was the Grundig style, we had only Grundig stuff

Our living room's tape machine:

And our radio:

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:27 pm

What's your ancient hifi setup got to do with Phonec?

fluffy_little_something · Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:32 pm

I was referring to the blog Jack had linked, there are photos of various consumer electronic devices on that page. But they look much more modern than ours did in the 70's...

jack [psychicmodulation] · Thu Mar 24, 2016 1:02 am

Numanoid wrote:What's your ancient hifi setup got to do with Phonec?

Phonec 2 has been released! (Updated to v2.4)