Soundtoys Plugins still not resizable?!?! "there are no plans currently to implement resizable GUIs for our plug-ins"
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 9623 posts since 5 Aug, 2009
still usin their plugins, love them, but on one hand i find it just bad and unacceptable to not have resizable GUIs already.
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- KVRian
- 744 posts since 15 May, 2003 from R'lyeh
Spaceblender is also v5.5, the rest of the suite is still at 5.4. We've likely got a new 5.5 version of the whole bundle coming once this promo stuff is over.aMUSEd wrote: Sat May 03, 2025 10:05 am The new Spaceblender is resizable so that's a start - whether they implement it for the older ones too we will have to see
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- KVRAF
- 37433 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
I know, although that doesn't necessarily mean they will all get resizable GUI's in that update - we can only hope
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- KVRAF
- 12481 posts since 16 Aug, 2006
It doesn't guarantee that will be the case, but it's probably a good indicator. Fingers crossed!
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- KVRAF
- 3052 posts since 6 Jul, 2013
Soundtoy's developer has already shown WIP screenshots of multiple Soundtoys plugins with GUI resizing, so it's definitely something they've been working on, and something I expect them to roll out soon, given that they just launched Spaceblender *with* the new GUI resizing. Perhaps one of the reasons they made it free was to get as many systems as possible running it to shake out any problems with the newer GUI frameworks etc, before they roll out updates across the board...
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- KVRer
- 2 posts since 29 Mar, 2015
Great news! any links to the article? Resizing and a refresh of the GUI would be greatly appreciated.beely wrote: Sat May 03, 2025 5:15 pm Soundtoy's developer has already shown WIP screenshots of multiple Soundtoys plugins with GUI resizing, so it's definitely something they've been working on, and something I expect them to roll out soon, given that they just launched Spaceblender *with* the new GUI resizing. Perhaps one of the reasons they made it free was to get as many systems as possible running it to shake out any problems with the newer GUI frameworks etc, before they roll out updates across the board...
Would be good to move away from skeuomorphism
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- KVRist
- 246 posts since 4 Oct, 2021
I must have missed that because I can't remember ever seeing it. Are you talking about existing plugins or new ones? I could sure do with an echoboy with a better UI (bigger would be a start)beely wrote: Sat May 03, 2025 5:15 pm Soundtoy's developer has already shown WIP screenshots of multiple Soundtoys plugins with GUI resizing
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- KVRAF
- 14476 posts since 16 Feb, 2005 from Planet Earth, Somewhere
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- KVRist
- 246 posts since 4 Oct, 2021
Thanks
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- KVRian
- 634 posts since 11 Dec, 2004
I agree, ditch the damn wood, personally I kinda hate it.beely wrote: Fri Nov 22, 2024 1:24 am I’m sure everyone would also love it if we could lose those somewhat dated and redundant wooden box graphics around the plugins too. The plugin faceplates are enough (as per EffectRack), the wood bits just seem a bit 2010-era skeuomorphism. Old fashioned, but not in a cool, retro/vintage way, imo…
The Soundtoys folk are good people though…
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- KVRist
- 485 posts since 1 Mar, 2010
Resizable guis and oversampling modes are no brainers, especially in 2025.
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- KVRian
- 508 posts since 1 Apr, 2012 from bamboo tube
I heart skeumorphism.
Tangled roots perplex her ways.
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- KVRAF
- 6210 posts since 25 Dec, 2004
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- KVRAF
- 12481 posts since 16 Aug, 2006
Like everything in life, there are ways to do it well and ways not to.
If colors are too dark and slow down at a glance legibility of parameters, that's bad. I'd argue a few ST plugins have this problem. If shadows and lighting make things hard to read, that's bad. If ornamental things like wood panels and rack ears take up too much space for no reason other than being decorative, that's unnecessary. If controls end up tiny or you have to scroll a plugin because they emulated the hardware to an annoying degree (think some Arturia synths), that's terrible. If a plugin emulates a 90s piece of digital track gear with a narrow row of knobs (thinking like Quantum Room Simulator is MixHead) that's just lame nowadays.
There are ways to botch modern UI styles too.
It's all about execution, not one being better than the other for me.
If colors are too dark and slow down at a glance legibility of parameters, that's bad. I'd argue a few ST plugins have this problem. If shadows and lighting make things hard to read, that's bad. If ornamental things like wood panels and rack ears take up too much space for no reason other than being decorative, that's unnecessary. If controls end up tiny or you have to scroll a plugin because they emulated the hardware to an annoying degree (think some Arturia synths), that's terrible. If a plugin emulates a 90s piece of digital track gear with a narrow row of knobs (thinking like Quantum Room Simulator is MixHead) that's just lame nowadays.
There are ways to botch modern UI styles too.
It's all about execution, not one being better than the other for me.
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- KVRist
- 481 posts since 26 Jun, 2024
Just an half hour wiht photoshop to show what a difference in fun-ness and legibility do to such overly dark (and poor use of glare) SoundToys GUI's.
To each their preference obviously. But to me, that makes things 80% more easy and clear to the eyes. At least they did include resizing in Spaceblender. Which is their newest release, so maybe that indicates they are working on resizing for at least future plugins but perhaps their older ones as well.
To each their preference obviously. But to me, that makes things 80% more easy and clear to the eyes. At least they did include resizing in Spaceblender. Which is their newest release, so maybe that indicates they are working on resizing for at least future plugins but perhaps their older ones as well.