Does anyone NOT like Diva?
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Super Piano Hater 64 Super Piano Hater 64 https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=491312 - KVRist
- 499 posts since 24 Jan, 2021
In the argument over Diva's UI complexity, MONA is a double-edged sword. It obviously has a better claim to the tabless, one page title than the stock red wood skin, but at the same time, it was possible to make it in the first place.
I hate signatures too.
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- u-he
- 30174 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
But then, in my view the tabs are absolutely justified in Diva's original skin. Nobody needs to permanently have an overview over individual per-voice oscillator tunings. Those are like calibrations one sets up once and then forgets about. Likewise, apparently the more complex modulation options (you can add or multiply two, you can S&H one, you can quantize one... for whenever you need it) are, well, useful every now and then but certainly not all the time. Whereas the stuff that is on the main page is the stuff that's used in close to 100% of patches, always.
Compare that to synths where everything is a click or two away, always. Hey, in some synths you even have to zoom out far enough to edit your release times, so you need to do extra clicks here and there. Looks great and tidy, but is much less comfortable and much more convoluted than people seem to realise.
Compare that to synths where everything is a click or two away, always. Hey, in some synths you even have to zoom out far enough to edit your release times, so you need to do extra clicks here and there. Looks great and tidy, but is much less comfortable and much more convoluted than people seem to realise.
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- KVRAF
- 9840 posts since 15 Sep, 2005 from East Coast of the USA
Is there a new version of Diva in the works?Urs wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 5:29 pm But then, in my view the tabs are absolutely justified in Diva's original skin. Nobody needs to permanently have an overview over individual per-voice oscillator tunings. Those are like calibrations one sets up once and then forgets about. Likewise, apparently the more complex modulation options (you can add or multiply two, you can S&H one, you can quantize one... for whenever you need it) are, well, useful every now and then but certainly not all the time. Whereas the stuff that is on the main page is the stuff that's used in close to 100% of patches, always.
Compare that to synths where everything is a click or two away, always. Hey, in some synths you even have to zoom out far enough to edit your release times, so you need to do extra clicks here and there. Looks great and tidy, but is much less comfortable and much more convoluted than people seem to realise.
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- u-he
- 30174 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin