16.06a beta + MDrumStrip + a little poll

[mevla]

It will add one or two lines to plugin reviews, as in :

"All the Melda graphs are of a rainbow colour by default which you can disable by one click of the mouse every single time you are using a Melda plugin with such a graph."

And to maintain the suspense, do not mention what and where is that single one click to revert to a neutral, cleaner view graph. I guess it has to do with _flow_ .

[mevla]

From the perspective of 25 years of software development for embedded devices including straightforward practical user interfaces :

Do you like the rainbow graph as default?

[ ] Yes
[ ] I do like it, but not as default
[ ] No

The poll's mysterious 'No' option. Looking innocuous, it's nevertheless not there for nothing. It serves a purpose for the question that is asked. A tad fishy unless there are concerns adding the rainbow graph even when not using it, like much additional RAM consumption and a whole lot of storage space. Which very likely wouldn't be the case.

[MeldaProduction]

So, the poll is rather ambiguous . Using rainbow as default wins, but not too much.

There was a question about the colors - indeed it follows the colors of a rainbow - lowest audio frequency corresponds to lowest light wavelength etc. It's pretty standard.

[ralfrobert]

So, the poll is rather ambiguous . Using rainbow as default wins, but not too much.

There was a question about the colors - indeed it follows the colors of a rainbow - lowest audio frequency corresponds to lowest light wavelength etc. It's pretty standard.

I think optional eye candy is appreciated. As long as it is optional.

[Starship Krupa]

Pink means female.
Rainbow colors mean gay or children.

No they don't.

Men are hardcoded.

No we're not.

I think the new rainbow spectrum analyzer coloring looks great, although I agree with those saying that violet would be my preference for lows and yellow/white my preference for highs.

[mevla]

Pink means female.
Rainbow colors mean gay or children.

No they don't.

Just in case you are living in a virtual bubble, unaware of major societal definitions :

"How the Rainbow Flag Became a Symbol of LGBTQ Pride"

Men are hardcoded.

No we're not.

Human beings are obviously born male or female. That's how nature, the universe works. Pretending to be above that in a purely materialist way is not evolution, on the contrary. When the sages spoke about transcending non-duality it was about spiritual evolution, not about brainwashing young children in schools about doubting who they are, leading them eventually to a life dependent on pharmaceutical products.

[mevla]

So, the poll is rather ambiguous . Using rainbow as default wins, but not too much.

I'd say rigged.

I started to quite like it. You? It's one click for disabling of course, but still...

One question remains. Where's the one-click to disable that permanently

[mevla]

The rainbow is also a memory of the pandemic confinements, the permanent closure of small businesses, the deaths of so many older people in care homes. The rainbow was used to calm down people, that 'everything will go better'. Here and in other countries.

To be remembered about those times BY DEFAULT is disappointing.

People who like that colour scheme can simply, with perhaps 'one click' have it for them without imposing it on others.

[noizejoy]

In any sufficiently large group, there's a small number of people, who are easily triggered into some sort of outrage seeing things that aren't really there.

For anyone remembering from school how colours map to frequencies in visible light, it's pretty obvious, that the lowest frequencies are red, followed by orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet being the highest frequency.

https://www.britannica.com/science/colo ... e-spectrum

Using rainbow colours for audio frequencies borrows from physics (not politics) - making it anything else tells you quite a bit about the individuals doing the complaining.

[Nspace]

I wasn't expecting those opinions from you mevla, whom I have admired at a lot of informative posts in this very same forum.
However we do severely differ in several of our subjective ideas expressed in this thread.

I am sorry the utilization of the colour spectrum for calming down people at where you stayed in recent hard times (nothing of those sorts happened at SouthAmerica or the part of Europe and other countries I could follow online) has left an emotional "bad taste" to you and hope this is temporary.

That said, about your other expressed ideas and I quote those (bold is mine):

Human beings are obviously born male or female. That's how nature, the universe works. Pretending to be above that in a purely materialist way is not evolution, on the contrary. When the sages spoke about transcending non-duality it was about spiritual evolution, not about brainwashing young children in schools about doubting who they are, leading them eventually to a life dependent on pharmaceutical products.

Basicly that is not how nature works, not only for humans but in many species. For us, we have several kinds and levels of hermaphroditism and genetic conditions, including xxy, xyy, bilogicly sexed men with xx and more. But this is just Biology, far from completing the science at 2023 we have gathered about this. Thankfully there is already extensive research and reputed academic publications on the matter.

And it might come as a shock for some but then there are genres, as an evolutionary necessity, yes.
I can personally assure anyone listening, LGBT+ genres could be far from being optional (so much against it). You don't need to believe or listen to me in this point, just see what one of the surgeons of Mayo clinic expresses in his informative "Homosexuality is not about sex is about survival" TEDx talk:

[mevla]

I wasn't expecting those opinions from you mevla, whom I have admired at a lot of informative posts in this very same forum. However we do severely differ in several of our subjective ideas expressed in this thread.

I think that above all, the most important is to be able to discuss. When communication is broken, for instance by tagging people 'such and such' then communication is broken. Moreover, having children grown up in such a societal context will narrow their capabilities to expand.

Basicly that is not how nature works, not only for humans but in many species.

You have to note that the context is being born. I have yet to see a human born neither a male or female. What you are talking about is the process leading to the actual materialization eg. the birth.

There's a bit of male into female and a bit of female into male. Nothing is 100% 'pure'. This is known for thousands of years.

Does the traditional symbol for yin and yang resonate ?

As for the video you suggest, that's the opinion of one person and should be evaluated as such. Moreover I'd question the need for people to rely one a 'star' opinion.

I have built bands with gay people who are friends, to say it squarely. I went to gay bars and had a good time, I have nothing against gays. Why are people so 'black and white', why are people so much into following the saying : 'you are for us or against us' as if their mental processes are made up of big bulky blocks. Where is the flexibility ?

What I'm disappointed with, is to _have that scheme as a default_ . I already have to switch off the little boxes that shows frequencies as I find them annoying. It is about flow of operations. Add to that the emotional content that a rainbow means in recent times. Add to that the way the poll was made with a mysterious 'No' option to the question.

Salutations du Québec, Canada.

[mevla]

Using rainbow colours for audio frequencies borrows from physics (not politics) - making it anything else tells you quite a bit about the individuals doing the complaining.

This is obvious. You are discussing with someone at engineer level.

What I oppose is making that color scheme the default.

[Frankie.T]

Somehow i cannot place my vote, anyway i vote NO

ProQ is lovely to work with because of cleanest interface. I think that's the way, not the opposite.
Left are LF right HF in every digital eq, who needs colors to do not get confuse between 300hz and 15k?

[Starship Krupa]

Pro-Q looks kinda rainbow to me:
https://www.fabfilter.com/img/products/ ... -intro.jpg

As far as turning off the rainbow look, the button couldn't be more front-facing, it's dead top center on the EQ display. Also, I'm sure that it could also be added to Settings to make it the default, just like we can do with showing the GUI's or sleeping when idle or multiple other things.

[MirkoVanHauten]

Pro-Q looks kinda rainbow to me:
https://www.fabfilter.com/img/products/ ... -intro.jpg

Only if you select one or more bands. It's to distinguish them. It has some value. It's not nearly as annoying as seeing it as background in the complete display all the time.