XHip--Please finish your synth!!

[Mutant]

1. Beautiful.
2. Too big.
3. Hard to read - low contrast.

My suggestions:
Make the white border thinner (1 pixel) or completely get rid of it - it is just a waste of space.
Make even more space for colored indicator by removing that blue area around the center.
Make grey indicator background black or at least much darker.
Make colors more "neonish" - simulated lighting of surrounding area.

[SQ4]

...and since i was tremendously stoned

as stoned as a knob!

[OverDose]

1. Beautiful.
2. Too big.
3. Hard to read - low contrast.

My suggestions:
Make the white border thinner (1 pixel) or completely get rid of it - it is just a waste of space.
Make even more space for colored indicator by removing that blue area around the center.
Make grey indicator background black or at least much darker.
Make colors more "neonish" - simulated lighting of surrounding area.

...and since i was tremendously stoned

as stoned as a knob!

[Mutant]

1. Beautiful.
2. Too big.
3. Hard to read - low contrast.

My suggestions:
Make the white border thinner (1 pixel) or completely get rid of it - it is just a waste of space.
Make even more space for colored indicator by removing that blue area around the center.
Make grey indicator background black or at least much darker.
Make colors more "neonish" - simulated lighting of surrounding area.

No it is too "sterile" now - just copy paste the indicator increase contrast and scale it up to cover that blue center and white border.

[sluggo]

Are we able to control the filter with key velocity? I didn't see a way to do it, but I'm not much of a synth programmer. I'm not sure if I want to control filter depth or frequency with the velocity, I'd have to test it out. Which is more common for this type of thing, velocity -> cutoff or depth?

thx

[aciddose]

velo->cutoff is more usual

use the velocity controls on the control page

[bengeorge]

two things i discovered tonight:

1. using mod b on pan will cause clicky clicks.

2. eighties style synth prog rock will put my girlfriend right the hell to sleep.

http://xhip.cjb.net/temp/public/bengeor ... ghties.mp3
xhip, xhip fx, addictive drums demo

how can she sleep when i'm rocking so damn hard?????/

[haj]

Vertical slider is somehow feels lesser work on the wrist than horizontal slider. Maybe because there are very few horizontal scroll bars and thus mouse movement in general GUI.

Actually I think vertical slider is best on this kind of GUI. Looks wise it may not be most handsome but when thinking about heavily mouse work, knob isn't most comfortable (looks good tho) and horizontal slider is worse than knob... Usual listbox opens vertically, too.

The GUI plan given in page about 23 in this thread looks very nice. It's clean and simple, efficient. But then I hope that the GUI incorporate vertical sliders somehow --- keeping the overall nice design basically the same (layout, color, appearance).

So, it would be good in this way:

menu or page, big section etc uses "tab" thing, which orients horizontally. Of course no page (everything is on the screen) is the best but it's very unlikely practical.

frequently used variable controller use a vertical control.

just my opinion.

[laputa_sync]

two things i discovered tonight:

1. using mod b on pan will cause clicky clicks.

2. eighties style synth prog rock will put my girlfriend right the hell to sleep.

http://xhip.cjb.net/temp/public/bengeor ... ghties.mp3
xhip, xhip fx, addictive drums demo

how can she sleep when i'm rocking so damn hard?????/

thats too good. love that track. you should make 80's presets for final version of xhip. (also they remind me of lots of 1974 tracks)

[Okke]

I have some troubles with the latest versions of Xhip in Live 6.03.
It plays midi-clips out of sync, then 'crashes' -> it starts to make a lot of noise, and then crashes the host. This seems to happen at random times and note-inputs.

It has happened while using triangle waves but I am not sure if this has got anything to do with it, since I am also twiddling other params like filter, waveshaper, noise volume...

[Jono-60]

I'm pretty new to sound design so I'm not complaining but I was just wondering why there isn't a sine or square wave. Do we not need it?

EDIT: oh wait, let me guess. A square wave is a pulse wave with 0% pulse width?

[bengeorge]

jono-60, yes square=pulse @ 0%, and sine = triangle @ 100%.

[jupiter8]

Actually a square wave is a pulse with 50 % pulsewitdh.
Some synths only have 50-100% pulsewitdh squares.
Xhip has from about 1% to 99% although it is labeled -100% to 100%. Probably from "laziness" from the programmer.
I know Aciddose is pretty anal about this stuff it kinda surprises me.Although i suspect he thought his time was better spend on other things than that.In which he is perfectly right.

[aciddose]

you can look at it in terms of % of cycle spent in a particular phase, in which case the label i use is correct. it makes more sense to me, especially since most of the time you wont be able to hear the difference between <50 and >50.

using mod b on pan will cause clicky clicks.

it shouldnt, i'm going to have to change the whole panning/amplitude section anyway and when i do, it'll get fixed.

I have some troubles with the latest versions of Xhip in Live 6.03.

with exactly which versions of xhip? can you reproduce this on both the recent a12 and a13? can you also reproduce this with a10? my recent fix for logic was due to logic sending invalid event packets to the plugin. i wouldnt be surprised if there are simmilar bugs in live.

none of this should be anything to do with xhip, xhip is behaving correctly.

[laputa_sync]

YAY!!! xhip is fun!!!