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Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 7:13 am

Just checked that Hoverland skin. While it indeed looks nice it is almost identical to the SEM like skin that was published by AQ including the fonts/labels.
All that was changed from the SEM like skin was adding new knobs/switches and a different background color.

If i would have known that this would be enough to make people happy i would not have rearranged all the controls in my own skin (that i published yesterday) and just added new knobs and background color to the SEM skin.

Nielzie · Post by **Nielzie** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 8:25 am

H-man wrote:
Gosh wrote:
Teksonik wrote:http://www.admiralquality.com/products/ ... #Hoverland

New skin from Hoverland. Great work !

beautiful
Yeah nice work Hoverland

+1 really good looking and easy on the eyes

Sim.Sky · Post by **Sim.Sky** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 9:10 am

Nielzie wrote:
H-man wrote:
Gosh wrote:
Teksonik wrote:http://www.admiralquality.com/products/ ... #Hoverland

New skin from Hoverland. Great work !

beautiful
Yeah nice work Hoverland
+1 really good looking and easy on the eyes

yes, that's definitely one proper looking skin

if now someone could do a symbiosis of this one and the one from norbz it could be perfect

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 9:31 am

Norbz wrote: Beautiful work Got me wishin' I spent less time on trying to redo the darn thing from scratch and just make skins with the current size/labels as they are. +1 Hov.

Don't regret. Regarding placement, I still prefers yours, although the elements (knobs, more than anything else) of this are perfect. Also, the keyboard shadow is in sync with the knobs shadow, which also helps tpo the overall balance. Finally, I like the blue background in the drop down boxes. Very well done. Now, Norbz, take these knobs as reference, and make some alike, and take the keyboard shadow in sync with the rest of the skin. The end result of your skins will look much better, you'll see.

Nielzie · Post by **Nielzie** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 9:40 am

It does look a little bit "digital' though.. for a synth like Poly-ana. We need more wood I guess

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 9:55 am

OK, I honoured my word. I think I now can consider there is a relatively safe expectation that I will get a manageable skin to work with, so I bought Poly-Ana. Thanks to all the people that made it happen (Mike included, of course), and keep the good work,. I will still be here to make my (sometimes harsh) comments.

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 10:04 am

fmr wrote:
Norbz wrote: Beautiful work Got me wishin' I spent less time on trying to redo the darn thing from scratch and just make skins with the current size/labels as they are. +1 Hov.
Don't regret. Regarding placement, I still prefers yours, although the elements (knobs, more than anything else) of this are perfect. Also, the keyboard shadow is in sync with the knobs shadow, which also helps tpo the overall balance. Finally, I like the blue background in the drop down boxes. Very well done. Now, Norbz, take these knobs as reference, and make some alike, and take the keyboard shadow in sync with the rest of the skin. The end result of your skins will look much better, you'll see.

Personally while that new "variation" of the existing SEM skin (new knobs/switches and different background coior) by Hoverland looks good personally i prefer to have more of my own approach including some rearrangement of the controls.

Norbz besides keeping the basic layout of the default and the SEM skin at least did quite a lot of rearrangement inside the sections. By "sections" i mean Oscs, Filter, ENV, LFO etc. Besides that he also decreases the overall size of the skin which means most controls had to be rearranged/shifted.
This is much closer to an actual "redesign" than the new Hoverland skin (which is nice on it's own).

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 10:12 am

Teksonik wrote:http://www.admiralquality.com/products/ ... #Hoverland

New skin from Hoverland. Great work !

Now that's more like it

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 10:15 am

Teksonik wrote:http://www.admiralquality.com/products/ ... #Hoverland

New skin from Hoverland. Great work !

That's very nice

I think it is a good idea to use a bit of different colors for the different modules, it sets them apart more.

Echoes in the Attic · Post by **Echoes in the Attic** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 4:35 pm

Hoverland. Beauty.

murnau · Post by **murnau** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 5:55 pm

Ingonator wrote:Just checked that Hoverland skin. While it indeed looks nice it is almost identical to the SEM like skin that was published by AQ including the fonts/labels.
All that was changed from the SEM like skin was adding new knobs/switches and a different background color.

If i would have known that this would be enough to make people happy i would not have rearranged all the controls in my own skin (that i published yesterday) and just added new knobs and background color to the SEM skin.

No hard feelings Ingo thats usually the result when a guy with real talent on skinning just added new knobs and background color to the SEM skin.

Echoes in the Attic · Post by **Echoes in the Attic** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 9:20 pm

Ingonator wrote:Just checked that Hoverland skin. While it indeed looks nice it is almost identical to the SEM like skin that was published by AQ including the fonts/labels.
All that was changed from the SEM like skin was adding new knobs/switches and a different background color.

It looks nothing like the SEM skin at all. The knobs, switches and background are what make up the entirely of the look of a skin for heaven's sake! The only thing that is the same is the layout.

Ingonator wrote: If i would have known that this would be enough to make people happy i would not have rearranged all the controls in my own skin (that i published yesterday) and just added new knobs and background color to the SEM skin.

This is absurd. So if you had known that all people wanted was a really nice skin with really nice knobs, switches, background and everything that you can see with your eyes, and is pleasant to look at, then you would have just done that no problem rather than use the ugly knobs and background and switches. You only used those because you thought people didn't care about the look of the skin. This has all the maturity of a 9 year old whose jealous that someone else got praise. I actually don't mean to be harsh, but there is a reason for the praise for the Hoverland skin and it seems you're trying to diminish that, which I don't think is very cool.

Sim.Sky · Post by **Sim.Sky** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 9:32 pm

murnau wrote:No hard feelings Ingo thats usually the result when a guy with real talent on skinning just added new knobs and background color to the SEM skin.

thank you, murnau

H-man · Post by **H-man** » Sat Aug 08, 2015 6:38 am

Hey Norbz, all,

Just playing around with some aspects, bi-polar dials, colours etc. I'm not really wedded to any of this, just testing stuff along the way using Norbz's template. Any comments welcome.

Note: there is a new mod selector to be added and the voices dial is still wrong but all WIP.

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Sat Aug 08, 2015 6:51 am

I am sorry if my comments sounded a bit harsh but i aleady mentioned that the Hoverland skin looks good,independent of if the SEM skin from AQ was used for doing this (which is a fact...).

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