KVR Audio

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 7:39 am

elxsound wrote:
Karma_tba wrote:I wondered why the Admiral would let anyone touch his baby.........now I know! After reviewing the submitted skins, none are an improvement over the default. Thus the dev has been vindicated.
Well to the contributor's defense, they are still working within the limitations of the original skin. Spacing and placement are still just as relevant.

As mentioned multiple times besides changing the controls with Knobman (or other programs) and also changing the background the placement of all controls could be edited within the XML file but doing a new background and comletely re-designing the arrangement of controls needs more skills and more than 2 days (actually i used KnobMan for the first time on last Friday and learned a lot in those few days).

This is the first part of the Envelope 1 controls position/coordinate settings in the XML file (coordinates 0,0 seem to be at the upper left):

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<!-- Env 1 -->
<CtrlInfo><ID>E1VelLev</ID><ImgName>SmallKnob</ImgName><PosX>216</PosX><PosY>551</PosY>/CtrlInfo>

FWIW i just posted a download link for my skins. If people do not use the full skins maybe they need at least parts like the knobs etc.

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 12:50 pm

I just found that if you want to change positions of certain knobs the best is to check how much the coordinates in a picture editor like e.g. Windows Paint differs from the value in the XML file.
For example for the big knob in my current skins it is a diference of 30 for both teh x- and y-axis. This means i have to subtract 30 from the coordinates i get from PAint when i want to edit the values in the XML file.
That amount is differenrt for each GUI element /e.g. big knob, small knob, 2-way switch etc.).

I have tested this with a background image where i changed the placement of some controls and the results are quite precise this way. Fine tuning usully is always necessary.

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 1:49 pm

Karma_tba wrote:I wondered why the Admiral would let anyone touch his baby.........now I know! After reviewing the submitted skins, none are an improvement over the default. Thus the dev has been vindicated.

It's only been five days. It takes much longer than that to make an entirely new skin.

Yes so far all anyone has done is work within the default skin. Give it time for the real skinners to work their magic.......

Anyway I just wanted to make sure this point is clear to everybody....it's not the skin that controls whether you see Mod Source Dials or Dropdowns, it's an *option* that *any* skin must support both. Click on the Admiral Quality logo on the gui and the Global Options box opens. Then once you choose Dropdowns for example every time you open Poly-Ana it will remember your choice. There seemed to be some confusion about the Dials vs Dropdowns.

I urge any of the real skinners to contact Admiral Quality while you are working on a skin and work together. He can help with detail and you might be able point out things in the current skinning scheme that could be added, changed or improved.

Anyway skinning is a work in progress. I suggest we all be patient and see what happens in the days and weeks ahead.......

EDIT: One thing that would help is if the OP would change the thread title to something like "Earn a Poly-Ana license in return for doing a Skin". That would help get the word out.

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 2:32 pm

Teksonik wrote:
thecontrolcentre wrote:Nice and clean looking ... good stuff. Can I download it anywhere?
Thanks, I was going for functional, just a simple edit of the default. Here's a download link:

Tek Edit 1

Thank you.

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 3:31 pm

Pyrotek45 · Post by **Pyrotek45** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 4:19 pm

so far, none of the edits look better. still waiting

plexuss · Post by **plexuss** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 4:57 pm

Teksonik wrote:[snip...]

EDIT: One thing that would help is if the OP would change the thread title to something like "Earn a Poly-Ana license in return for doing a Skin". That would help get the word out.

Done (mostly).

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 6:20 pm

But how can you do a skin, without owning PolyAna in the first place?

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 6:52 pm

Numanoid wrote:But how can you do a skin, without owning PolyAna in the first place?

Without a license Poly-Ana should run in demo mode AFAIK and with the download and what is available at the Beta page you got access to the necessary resources. Of course als JKnobman should be necessary if you want to create custom kbobs/switches.

Link for Knobman/JKnobman/WebKnobman:
http://www.g200kg.com/en/software/knobman.html
Gallery: http://www.g200kg.com/en/webknobman/gallery.php?ty=&s=

JKnobMan is teh new Java based version. WebKnobMan is a browser base application:
http://www.g200kg.com/en/webknobman/

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 11:48 pm

plexuss wrote:
Teksonik wrote:[snip...]

EDIT: One thing that would help is if the OP would change the thread title to something like "Earn a Poly-Ana license in return for doing a Skin". That would help get the word out.
Done (mostly).

Cool ! Thanks.....

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 11:49 pm

Come on people. For years and years people have been saying they would buy Poly-Ana but the skin turned them off. Heated battles were fought over the original skin. Now that AQ have finally relented we could show more support.

For those who have ideas for a skin...express them. If you can think of any skinners let them know of the license offer.

This isn't going to happen over night.........

Teksonik · Post by **Teksonik** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 11:51 pm

Pyrotek45 wrote:so far, none of the edits look better. still waiting

Damn it's been less than a week. Give it time man.....like I said patience.....

ccDuckett · Post by **ccDuckett** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 12:15 am

I'd love to see what http://flavoursoflime.blogspot.com/ could do.

JerGoertz · Post by **JerGoertz** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 12:53 am

Teksonik wrote:Come on people. For years and years people have been saying they would buy Poly-Ana but the skin turned them off. Heated battles were fought over the original skin. Now that AQ have finally relented we could show more support.

For those who have ideas for a skin...express them. If you can think of any skinners let them know of the license offer.

This isn't going to happen over night.........

Hear hear! Poly-Ana has a beautiful sound, if the GUI was the only thing preventing someone from getting it, this could be their big chance to give a great synth a "fair hearing".

Echoes in the Attic · Post by **Echoes in the Attic** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 1:41 am

ccDuckett wrote:I'd love to see what http://flavoursoflime.blogspot.com/ could do.

Has someone told him about the free synth offer? That guy could get a free PA for sure with a skin like that...

Admiral Quality Poly-ana offers custom skinning (and win a free license)!