Umm, stupid knob with outer sliders!

stefan · 29 Nov 2005

For starters, its looks are just awesome. Why is it that everything you knock up looks so good? Mad skills.

Shifrin · 29 Nov 2005

stefan wrote: For starters, its looks are just awesome. Why is it that everything you knock up looks so good? Mad skills.

Cheers stefan 😊 😀

I'd thought about having these knobs for some sort of oscillator, central 'big' knob controls amplitude, three outer sliders modify the oscillator in some (magical, hehe) way. Never got that far though!

I do like things to look nice though - so I spend a little time on their design.

Shif.

GaryG · 29 Nov 2005

that's great, could really tidy up a few GUIs I can think of (moving less used controls to the outer faders)

nice one.

.g

angstrom · 29 Nov 2005

I like it, could be a handy solution for compound controls .

for example Filter frequency with controls for Env depth, Lfo Depth and Tracking combined into one area.

Shifrin · 29 Nov 2005

Yep! That's the sort of thing I had in mind, a way to group related things together and reduce GUI size 😉

Shif.

fritzman · 29 Nov 2005

Wow Shif,

that looks extremely cool. I like such stuff. Thanx a lot! 🙂

all the best, FRitz

infuzion · 29 Nov 2005

wow, very cool 😍

I have a few ideas about shrinking down GUIs as well...

The one thing you want to think about when creating GUIs is that pro music-makers tend to work very fast. Roy Davis Jr told me that he made "Shock Jock" (one of his most famous trax) in 15 minutes (I think in Acid). VitiaminD ("That Latin Track" was on Muzak cover CD) makes a song/day. With that in mind, you might want to make the outside sliders a bit bigger, or provide a value-readout so someone could just glance at it.

But as-is, it's still great for values that don't need to be changed much.

skOre · 29 Nov 2005

nice stuff indeed

Shifrin · 29 Nov 2005

infuzion wrote: With that in mind, you might want to make the outside sliders a bit bigger, or provide a value-readout so someone could just glance at it.

It would indeed make sense to have some sort of visual feedback to let you know what the values are and represent 😉

I just never got around to doing that, hehe 😀

Shif.

infuzion · 30 Nov 2005

Shifrin wrote: infuzion wrote: With that in mind, you might want to make the outside sliders a bit bigger, or provide a value-readout so someone could just glance at it.

It would indeed make sense to have some sort of visual feedback to let you know what the values are and represent 😉

I just never got around to doing that, hehe

I was going to do this myself, but I don't have the time myself either; perhaps someone else can do it?

1) drop the middle knob 2) make it 4 arc sliders instead of 3 3) put the value-displayers in the middle

have fun!

Shifrin · 30 Nov 2005

infuzion wrote: 1) drop the middle knob 2) make it 4 arc sliders instead of 3 3) put the value-displayers in the middle

That's an interesting idea! One I'll no doubt fiddle with myself when I've finished some other things I'm working on 😉

Of cours anyone is free to do what they want with this! I'd like at some point to make a properties panel for it and make it scalable etc, but that stuff takes as much time (if not more) than building the hard-wired version!

Shif.