"flavored" oatmeal skin, download more colors now (v37-4)
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- KVRian
- 1188 posts since 24 May, 2006 from Our Amazing Oasis in Space - USA Section
I think this new skin looks great! It makes me want to get deep with Oatmeal and really see what it can do now. Personally, I don't care for the Army drab colors, but the overall layout is really nice, especailly on such a complex synth.
I think what most people who say they like the "excited" version are responding to is the increased ledgibility of the labeling due to the enhanced contrast, but I think most would agree the graphics look much smoother with the non-sharpened verison. Maybe a mix of the two would be a neat solution.
I'm excited at the prospect of getting to play this beautiful beast now! But I understand, all good things come in time.
PS - I don't know what Applish culinary delight this would fall under, but I would love to see a slate grey background with light/med blue slider indicators and arp settings (i.e. replace the burnt orange areas) version someday. I know, it's a little plain to most, but I'd love the extended time spent with such a color scheme. Maybe it would fall under the "Blueberries and Slate" flavor heading. Mmmm, delicious and extra crunchy!
I think what most people who say they like the "excited" version are responding to is the increased ledgibility of the labeling due to the enhanced contrast, but I think most would agree the graphics look much smoother with the non-sharpened verison. Maybe a mix of the two would be a neat solution.
I'm excited at the prospect of getting to play this beautiful beast now! But I understand, all good things come in time.
PS - I don't know what Applish culinary delight this would fall under, but I would love to see a slate grey background with light/med blue slider indicators and arp settings (i.e. replace the burnt orange areas) version someday. I know, it's a little plain to most, but I'd love the extended time spent with such a color scheme. Maybe it would fall under the "Blueberries and Slate" flavor heading. Mmmm, delicious and extra crunchy!
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 8519 posts since 7 Apr, 2003
scifi; that's tasty looking 
the great thing is once one of the skins is done it should be relatively quick to do color variations. i can almost taste the sweet/sour blueberry flavor please save your work scifi and we can see about making that flavor the first of the assortment
yeager; doh! good catch. good thing there is room on the eq to accommodate. i'll correct this. basically there will be 3 more leds under the current one. the power icon will go away and instead to the right of the leds (once moved) i will put icons for each (typical eq icons - low shelf \_ highshelf _/ peak /\) adjacent to the LEDs and clicking on any LED will cycle through them lighting the one desired, right clicking any of the LEDs will allow menu. sound good? i was considering this for other controls as well because of the unique manner in which oatmeal lets you click and cycle through values in some menus.
i don't know about you guys but i've just been researching oatmeal, how it's built, noises it can make, all that, and i gotta say that i'm floored by how flexible this synth is. it's seriously great and i'm so glad i decided to do this. fuzpils deserves a f**king medal for this thing. it's a perfect compliment to synth1, too.
i've been experimenting particularly with the pulse modulation and though i've not gotten it to sound as "pwm phat" as say CS-33 or junatik, oatmeal has some seriously large testes. of course i'm no synth programming guru so this shouldn't be construed to mean that oatmeal is inferior to junatik or cs-33. just saying..
the great thing is once one of the skins is done it should be relatively quick to do color variations. i can almost taste the sweet/sour blueberry flavor
please save your work scifi and we can see about making that flavor the first of the assortment yeager; doh! good catch. good thing there is room on the eq to accommodate. i'll correct this. basically there will be 3 more leds under the current one. the power icon will go away and instead to the right of the leds (once moved) i will put icons for each (typical eq icons - low shelf \_ highshelf _/ peak /\) adjacent to the LEDs and clicking on any LED will cycle through them lighting the one desired, right clicking any of the LEDs will allow menu. sound good? i was considering this for other controls as well because of the unique manner in which oatmeal lets you click and cycle through values in some menus.
i don't know about you guys but i've just been researching oatmeal, how it's built, noises it can make, all that, and i gotta say that i'm floored by how flexible this synth is. it's seriously great and i'm so glad i decided to do this. fuzpils deserves a f**king medal for this thing. it's a perfect compliment to synth1, too.
i've been experimenting particularly with the pulse modulation and though i've not gotten it to sound as "pwm phat" as say CS-33 or junatik, oatmeal has some seriously large testes. of course i'm no synth programming guru so this shouldn't be construed to mean that oatmeal is inferior to junatik or cs-33. just saying..
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- KVRAF
- 3369 posts since 16 Jan, 2005 from Ottawa, Ontario
I saw the review it got from those online Gearwire(?) videos that come out every month or something... and it's made me wary of anything they say from now on. The guys obviously did not spend any amount of time with it. In fact they didn't even know it was polyphonic, and reduced it down to nothing more than a bass synthgrymmjack wrote:...
i don't know about you guys but i've just been researching oatmeal, how it's built, noises it can make, all that, and i gotta say that i'm floored by how flexible this synth is. it's seriously great and i'm so glad i decided to do this. fuzpils deserves a f**king medal for this thing. it's a perfect compliment to synth1, too.
i've been experimenting particularly with the pulse modulation and though i've not gotten it to sound as "pwm phat" as say CS-33 or junatik, oatmeal has some seriously large testes. of course i'm no synth programming guru so this shouldn't be construed to mean that oatmeal is inferior to junatik or cs-33. just saying..
. Oatmeal and SynthmasterFree are the best free VST synthsizers I have.
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- KVRAF
- 7030 posts since 28 Apr, 2004 from france
Yes, Oatmeal is really excellent.
Iblit is a fine companion to him, for his big basses, as Rectangle2 (warm sounds).
But everyone be sure also to try charsiesis (http://www.kvraudio.com/get/2264.html), also made by Fuzzpilz, and as unique as Oatmeal.
Sad that this one can't automatically benefit from the same skinning engine than his big synth brother
Iblit is a fine companion to him, for his big basses, as Rectangle2 (warm sounds).
But everyone be sure also to try charsiesis (http://www.kvraudio.com/get/2264.html), also made by Fuzzpilz, and as unique as Oatmeal.
Sad that this one can't automatically benefit from the same skinning engine than his big synth brother
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- KVRian
- 1395 posts since 16 Jan, 2004
I like watching Gearwire, and the guy who tends to demo the synths probably has the most sound design knowledge... but Oatmeal isn't a one trick pony. I don't suspect that those guys are that into soft synths (compared to us here), and therefore may not recognize something's depth right away...
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 8519 posts since 7 Apr, 2003
debutante; i'm still waiting on the synthmaster fix it's definitely great sounding so far though.
and i concur on the gearwire bit. you have to take it as is. dan, the actual guy who does the work, and walks the talk (to a point anyway) seems like he is pressed extremely for time. understand podcasts have small timeframes, fine, but dont review a massively comprehensive synth like oatmeal and then throw it in the f**king "done" bin. he should have read the manual. i never did until i started skinning the thing and i'm so glad i did. fuzpils has put a great amount of effort into documenting the thing and he did a good job. it was embarassing to watch that gearwire.
i feel that dan should give it another shot maybe a separate show called "gearwire - the real thing".
anyway, yes oj, they seem like hardware guys and that may be half the problem.
it's definitely great sounding so far though.and i concur on the gearwire bit. you have to take it as is. dan, the actual guy who does the work, and walks the talk (to a point anyway) seems like he is pressed extremely for time. understand podcasts have small timeframes, fine, but dont review a massively comprehensive synth like oatmeal and then throw it in the f**king "done" bin. he should have read the manual. i never did until i started skinning the thing and i'm so glad i did. fuzpils has put a great amount of effort into documenting the thing and he did a good job. it was embarassing to watch that gearwire.
i feel that dan should give it another shot maybe a separate show called "gearwire - the real thing".
anyway, yes oj, they seem like hardware guys and that may be half the problem.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 8519 posts since 7 Apr, 2003
sink; will give that a shot too. is it on bicycles for slugs?sinkmusic wrote:Yes, Oatmeal is really excellent.
Iblit is a fine companion to him, for his big basses, as Rectangle2 (warm sounds).
But everyone be sure also to try charsiesis (http://www.kvraudio.com/get/2264.html), also made by Fuzzpilz, and as unique as Oatmeal.
Sad that this one can't automatically benefit from the same skinning engine than his big synth brother
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- KVRAF
- 3369 posts since 16 Jan, 2005 from Ottawa, Ontario
You guys may be right about the harware preferences, but I feel so strongly about this synth that i have the mind to write them and ask them to do it again. It may be overboard, but I think they gave Oatmeal some really bad press.grymmjack wrote:debutante; i'm still waiting on the synthmaster fix
and i concur on the gearwire bit. you have to take it as is. dan, the actual guy who does the work, and walks the talk (to a point anyway) seems like he is pressed extremely for time. understand podcasts have small timeframes, fine, but dont review a massively comprehensive synth like oatmeal and then throw it in the f**king "done" bin. he should have read the manual. i never did until i started skinning the thing and i'm so glad i did. fuzpils has put a great amount of effort into documenting the thing and he did a good job. it was embarassing to watch that gearwire.
i feel that dan should give it another shot maybe a separate show called "gearwire - the real thing".
anyway, yes oj, they seem like hardware guys and that may be half the problem.
... and I will too.As for Synthmaster, its the easiest semi-monster synth I've ever come across. Concise PM/FM has never been easier. I couldn't compare it's aound to the typical VA sound of GTG's stuff, or the thins comparable to Synth1; it seems to have a different character, but it doesn't take much to get it going into some pretty heavy sounding stuff, and it's crazy versatile, although I don't think I'd fancy it for bass yet. All the same it's fantastic IMO.
Some synths just seem to need morrrrrre powerrrrr with graphics and all, and I think I read you tried it on a PIII. That may be what's going to let you down with that one. On my 1.83 MHz it's been an absolute dream with loads of modulation and effects going and barely getting over 10-15% at 4 and 5 voices. Even Oatmeal gets above that. But other's haven't been so lucky, so we'll see where it sits when all the work's done. You cannot BELIEVE how many little synths I was able to clean, and FM/PD seem a lot less complicated. I could not endorse that synth enough.
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- KVRAF
- 4329 posts since 26 Jun, 2004
wow, i just re-read this thread (thinking maybe i missed the download link...), and it is a testament to gryms work ethic. crazy.
anyway, im a long time oat-pusher. i love it, and i tell people. i use it just about daily, and this skin will be an incredible gift.
in-fookin-deed! i tell everyone about charsiesis! i overlooked it for oatmeal initially, but it has impressed me just as much as oatmeal, and it now gets far far too much use for my own good.
if that thing were given a matching skin, a-la the bad boy you have goin here for oatmeal... ooohhh boy...!
id nut.
right here. id nut.
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peace.
), and it is a testament to gryms work ethic. crazy.anyway, im a long time oat-pusher. i love it, and i tell people. i use it just about daily, and this skin will be an incredible gift.
sinkmusic wrote: But everyone be sure also to try charsiesis (http://www.kvraudio.com/get/2264.html), also made by Fuzzpilz, and as unique as Oatmeal.
Sad that this one can't automatically benefit from the same skinning engine than his big synth brother
in-fookin-deed! i tell everyone about charsiesis! i overlooked it for oatmeal initially, but it has impressed me just as much as oatmeal, and it now gets far far too much use for my own good.
if that thing were given a matching skin, a-la the bad boy you have goin here for oatmeal... ooohhh boy...!
id nut.
right here. id nut.
><
=
!
peace.
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- KVRAF
- 10815 posts since 26 Nov, 2004 from UK
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- KVRAF
- 4329 posts since 26 Jun, 2004
djsubject wrote:sorry,
no nutting allowed
oh man...
but you know how hard it is to turn back! once the tide is turned... its a countdown! i mean, i *might* have time to turn away from my monitor. hopefully....
oh, but mine is called 'nuttin'', no 'g'. i dont know why, it just is.
peace.
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- KVRAF
- 4176 posts since 2 Feb, 2003 from lost in music
I really like the skin layout
it is getting somewhere.
I made some little color variations,
maybe some might like them.
I hope it will be easy to change your final version,
when it is ready.
it is getting somewhere.
I made some little color variations,
maybe some might like them.
I hope it will be easy to change your final version,
when it is ready.
sound is vibration, vibration is life
