Suggested Rack Improvements

[sl23]

I had a little play with the Rack in Paint.Net to see what would look nicer and make it easier to read and use.

This is about the best I could do as I'm no graphic designer. Hope you like the changes. Please provide some positive feedback if you like it, as that may give Jo an incentive to make the changes

Changes:
1. Increased sizes of the On/Off LED's and the Rack Collapse button by 2pixel diameter.
2. Reduced the width of the Slider by 2 pixels.
3. Removed the Slider background and replaced with a 2 pixel wide 'slot'. This could be coloured according to the colour selected for the Rack Knobs. Sorry not sure of the exact parameter in the presets.
4. Replaced the existing Meter background with something a little nicer imho.
5. Moved the little white 'Pre/Post' fader arrow to the left by 2 pixels.

MuLabRack.png

MuLabRack.zip

[sl23]

Oh, I forgot to mention..

6. I increased the height of the blue fader line by 4 pixels. It looked a little too short against the meter. This doesn't affect the travel of the fader, just the aesthetics.

7. Added 2 pixel wide white lines to the sides of the meter where the existing lines were.

[Jimp_music]

That png file looks niicee, looks like something futuristic...reminds me of auburn sounds' vsts!! 8. It would be nice to see a seperate slider for the fader, cause it usually gets dragged unwantedly while trying to reach the gain slider, and basically goes haywire for a moment.

[sl23]

So would you like the rack to be changed to something like my design?
If you +1 it then it might catch on

I did realise yesterday though, the blue line for the fader background would need a single pixel black border so as to avoid possible colour conflicts depending what colour is chosen for each rack.

[Jimp_music]

So would you like the rack to be changed to something like my design?
If you +1 it then it might catch on

I did realise yesterday though, the blue line for the fader background would need a single pixel black border so as to avoid possible colour conflicts depending what colour is chosen for each rack.

Sure!! I didnt even know that feature existed!!