KVR Audio

very angry mobster · Post by **very angry mobster** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:54 am

The GUI fits the synth. I like the GUI too..

+1 It doesn't look attractive in a screenshot, but it's fine in use (and sounds great too!).

Xenos · Post by **Xenos** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:56 am

kingtubby wrote:
davidv@plogue wrote:Another review:

http://waveformless.blogspot.com/2009/1 ... ounds.html
Decent, in-depth review - I have to say though, I like the gui as it is. It seems to fit the hardware it's emulating.

Mart.

I share the same opinion as you do about the GUI. It has a vintage character reminiscent of all the old coin-op cabinets, company logos, flyers and such that it's modeled after and personally, I think that just adds to the "atmosphere".

BTW, Dave, if the Chipsounds users give you the call for more presets, I would love to dig back into it again because I really enjoyed this assignment. The factory preset submissions barely scratched the surface of all the different sounds ideas I've gotten from tinkering with it

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davidv@plogue · Post by **davidv@plogue** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 11:06 am

Xenos wrote: BTW, Dave, if the Chipsounds users give you the call for more presets, I would love to dig back into it again because I really enjoyed this assignment. The factory preset submissions barely scratched the surface of all the different sounds ideas I've gotten from tinkering with it .

I was thinking about this only a few minutes ago. now that its out there, im sure there are plenty of requests for this or that effect.
You can resurrect that preset thread, or people can just ask in here. i dont mind. One thing for sure your presets contribution (roughly 85% of whats there) were really appreciated!

thanks again ... wants more!

krushing · Post by **krushing** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 11:19 am

Xenos wrote:
kingtubby wrote:
davidv@plogue wrote:Another review:

http://waveformless.blogspot.com/2009/1 ... ounds.html
Decent, in-depth review - I have to say though, I like the gui as it is. It seems to fit the hardware it's emulating.

Mart.
I share the same opinion as you do about the GUI. It has a vintage character reminiscent of all the old coin-op cabinets, company logos, flyers and such that it's modeled after and personally, I think that just adds to the "atmosphere".

I think it's clear what they're after with the "atmosphere", but it's a somewhat, uh, stylistically bit of a half-assed effort. It's not very "retro" nor "modern" nor a seamless amalgamation of the two, but rather takes elements from both and doesn't mix the two very well. That said, I'm just commenting from the screenshots - it's just aesthetics, nothing to do with how well the GUI actually works. Then again, in this particular case said aesthetics have moved it from "instabuy" into the "maybe" folder, as shit a reason as it is to judge a synth

davidv@plogue · Post by **davidv@plogue** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 11:25 am

krushing wrote:Then again, in this particular case said aesthetics have moved it from "instabuy" into the "maybe" folder, as shit a reason as it is to judge a synth

We all agree that one ui can never have satisfied everyone, by this time i would have guessed someone would have made a skin already. you can completely redo the ui, you can make it looks like a totally different product.

however you will only have one skin from plogue for the short future, as there are imho much more important sound/parameter tweaks to do.

krushing · Post by **krushing** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:33 pm

Yeah - don't get me wrong, I don't think there's anything really wrong here, and it certainly seems useable from an interface designer's point of view. I'm still eager to get my hands on this thing and indeed do a complete re-skin at some point.

polyfonken · Post by **polyfonken** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:54 pm

to all the people being afraid of the colorful default skin, i made a new one:

http://www.polyfonken.com/ChipSkin/

took me maybe 5-6 hours, wasn't too hard at all. of course the layout is original and i had the original bits to work with, making something completely new and elaborate would take some more, i recon.

that is to say, fear not for your skin for it can be altered.

rexlapin · Post by **rexlapin** » Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:12 pm

polyfonken,
Thanks for your fine work here. A very nice clean
design and I really like your color choices as well.
Cheers,
Scott

rpc9943 · Post by **rpc9943** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 1:56 am

boughttttt

ps. can we have a copy on our laptop + desktop? if not, ill just throw it on my desktop

RonC

Xenos · Post by **Xenos** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:00 am

polyfonken wrote:to all the people being afraid of the colorful default skin, i made a new one:

http://www.polyfonken.com/ChipSkin/

took me maybe 5-6 hours, wasn't too hard at all. of course the layout is original and i had the original bits to work with, making something completely new and elaborate would take some more, i recon.

that is to say, fear not for your skin for it can be altered.

Excellent work!

. Funky, colorful, yet clean. I really like that.

Markleford · Post by **Markleford** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:31 am

rpc9943 wrote:ps. can we have a copy on our laptop + desktop? if not, ill just throw it on my desktop

Any number of computers (of your own, of course!).

- m

rpc9943 · Post by **rpc9943** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 6:08 am

obviously. i would never pirate or copy this!

ITS MIIINE

RonC

rpc9943 · Post by **rpc9943** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:39 pm

personally i love the gui, and guys, you got one more day dudes... this thing is killer. there is no other synth that can touch what this can do, in character... get it now, or miss out on a great deal!

i cant wait for more updates, and hopefully more presets

j_brady · Post by **j_brady** » Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:20 pm

great now that the discount periods over, I decide i want it, i knew that would happen haha. Oh well.
I might wait a couple of months, until after christmas, when ive learnt some more of the stuff in komplete 6 and can justify buying a new alien synth in need of learning.

Maybe there'l have been some nice updates by then too.

rpc9943 · Post by **rpc9943** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:14 am

that sucks, bro! I knew I would have that remorse if I didn't jump on it, so I said, OKAY lets do this!

RonC

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