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cymsilly ·
This is a collection I've been working on for a while. I just wanted to give back to a great resource that has helped ad inspired me so much. I hope that these will be useful to someone. Of course they are free to use in any way you see fit and no credit need be given to me for them.
Original Link is dead so I broke them down so they upload to the forum ok. And some of the stuff is missing now...but most of it is still there.
Here are the files...enjoy!
sunsynth ·
Hi cymsilly,
this is a goldmine 🙂 many thanks 4 it!
But... Not all yours 😉 right?!
Keep going...
SUNsynth
Hlis93 ·
Many of these are very very nice. good work. The one called zero snap it just outstanding.
cymsilly ·
I am glad they are useful. I worked many hours on these. Some are good and some are just ok. Most of them are mine i believe i listed which ones are not mine but I am terrible about remembering who to give credit to, for that I am sorry. The Dynamics and the EQ plugs are alterations of previous modules from whom I am sorry to say I don't remember. I was just getting as many examples and mods as I could when I started. I'm not very good at at making effects, what I really like doing is the control elements. Any way I'm glad they are useful.
cymsilly ·
I wll keep posting stuff that I make and things that I come across. If anyone would like help with anything I would love to help. This forum has just been a godsend for me and i just want to give back.
theun ·
NIce work! I really like weird old-fashioned knobs, in this set are some nice ones. I may incidentally use one or two as a gimmick, e.g. when releasing my "GarageSynth" [one of my pipe-line projects].
cymsilly ·
SWEET!!!
bootsy ·
You used my "Retro Knob Collection" - thats no problem at all, but when redistributing it please give a credit 🙂
Great collection!
cymsilly ·
Hi bootsy, I did give you credit on your collection...they are put in a module by themselves with a header of bootsies retro collection. There is no way i would take credit for those...they are a stunning set of knobs.
Just so everyone knows. I did the best I could to give credit where credit is due. If I missed someone I am sorry. My intentions were to help others with some tools that I made and some of the one's that can be picked up on the forum already. I don't want anything for them and I will do my best to look up who's is what's so that I don't offend anyone.
bootsy ·
Oki, just saw it.
Btw, where is that grafics taken from for the "Huge VU" background? Way cool!
cymsilly ·
The big VU background is a picture from some of my Dad's old hardware he had laying around(don't know what it's from) then I photoshopped the VU wand out. Working on some other stuff from his garage...he has some really cool vintage stuff, should be cool.
Also...the really big sider is from my Alpha Track Controller...I hope I'm not gonna get in trouble for that one.
etLux ·
My heavens! Beautiful work, cymsilly and bootsy!
Are you sure you fellows wish to give such work away? I think many of us, especially those making commercial product, would be happy to pay some reasonable fee for such fine work.
I'm developing a few little products myself, and the graphics end of things has always been a weak area... work like this is a godsend for me.
If and when those products ever become realities, I should certainly like to give special credit on the website to such contributions, plain and clear, in acknowledgements. How do you fellows like to be mentioned?
Thank you again!
My best,
David http://www.DavidSosnowski.com
cymsilly ·
they are totally a labor of love for me and completely free to anyone. I got a ton of stuff free from this very forum and I just want them to be used by someone who can actually make some good VST/VSTI's because I am just struggling with that end of it. Please just use them and that will be enough for me. As I get better at making the control elements I will post them freely agan for whomever would like to use them. Thank you so much for your kind words.
peterv ·
cymsilly,
Thanks very much for your highly appreciated library. I'm sure there are some nice knobs there I could use! Great job also to all contributors!
cymsilly ·
here are some knobs i did today. i had to split it up in to two parts cuz it said attatchments can only be 5mb. i thought i read that 8mb was allowed...oh well.
Edit: screen shot...duuurrrr
cymsilly ·
here is part 2. i hope they are useful.
Edit: duuuurrrr...
etLux ·
Wow! More great-looking work, cymsilly. I think I'm becoming a fan... lol!
I've been trying to learn to do this kind of thing, myself; and I'll tell you, I think maybe I don't have the synapses for it... rofl.
Gosh, maybe we should start a repository or archive of these somewhere? I'm sure many people would be grateful to have them!
My best,
David http://www.DavidSosnowski.com
Hlis93 ·
Cool work there cymsilly. It got me inspired this evening, thanks.
infuzion ·
All very nice! The last set seems to belong to a star trek VST 😉 etLux wrote: Gosh, maybe we should start a repository or archive of these somewhere? I'm sure many people would be grateful to have them!
WIKI
cymsilly ·
I obviously have a lot of time on my hands
etLux ·
cymsilly wrote: I obviously have a lot of time on my hands
Yes, but you put it to such great use, my friend... patience and skill applied to good end that many of us will appreciate. I surely do -- a grateful recipient of Cymsilly knobology.
Perhaps we should nominate you as SM's "SMaster of Knobs"!
My best,
David http://www.DavidSosnowski.com
cymsilly ·
Thank You very much etLux! This is all I seem to be good at. I've been trying to make some compressors and parametric EQ's and other dynamics FX but I just can't seem to get the hang of it...learned a bunch about Knobman though, LOL!!
Acrobat ·
ehm, great works here...anyway what about some sliders? It seems they are not very popular..?
Andrew J ·
Acrobat wrote: ehm, great works here...anyway what about some sliders? It seems they are not very popular..?
I'll second that - I'm having trouble finding a nice slider. It'd be great to have some that look as good as these knobs do! 🙂
cymsilly ·
Andrew J wrote: Acrobat wrote: ehm, great works here...anyway what about some sliders? It seems they are not very popular..?
I'll second that - I'm having trouble finding a nice slider. It'd be great to have some that look as good as these knobs do! 🙂
Are you wanting something like this....(this one should work with most darker BG's. it's mostly transparent. the black is just so you can see all of it clearly)
Give me some kind of clue as to what you are looking for and I will try to design something to fit. Sliders are new to me. this is only my third attempt. They should get better.
Andrew J ·
That's almost exactly the sort of look I was after!
For my purposes I'd ideally like it against a dark gray background (R:44,G:43,B:49) and I'd need it 24px wide by 48px high. Lighting direction is -45 and I probably wouldn't use a scale on the track.
I had been thinking of faders like the ones on the Euphonix MC Mix, but what you've done might be better for my GUI design anyway.
Mucho Gracias, Andrew
cymsilly ·
I hope this is more of what you had in mind...
electrogear ·
Cool, they look a bit like condenser mics
cymsilly ·
More sliders...hope they are useful...I think only thie first one looks like a condenser 😉
cymsilly ·
I did three more switches too. Thought I'd post them also.
infuzion ·
Thanks so much cymsilly! Now I hope half SM-VSTs won't look the same anymore 🙂
cymsilly ·
Thank you so much! It gives me something to do anyway.
Acrobat ·
infuzion wrote: Thanks so much cymsilly! Now I hope half SM-VSTs won't look the same anymore 🙂
eh eh eh 😀
cymsilly ·
I think I'll give up on the sliders. I'm just not very good at them. Not enough room to make them look real good.
Acrobat ·
cymsilly wrote: I think I'll give up on the sliders. I'm just not very good at them. Not enough room to make them look real good.
I built mine with primitives, never tried with knobman....
Hlis93 ·
cymsilly wrote: I think I'll give up on the sliders. I'm just not very good at them. Not enough room to make them look real good.
This is my 2cent so you can ignore if you want.
I find that it has always been best to develope faders to a match a set. Normally I create my knobs, buttons, lamps and then faders. Faders as you say don't offer much visually, however then can be useful to complete a stylized set. The problem with them is not so much the lack of visually stunning detail its that they just take to much panel space. My take on them is faders should be simple; in real life they are simple. Sometimes less is more when seen in relation to other details.
Andrew J ·
Good advice Jonathon. Whenever I've tried anything even slightly fancy with a slider, it just ends up looking stupid.
cymsilly ·
Oh alright you helpful bastards...I'll keep trying!
Nu Audio Science ·
Some sliders i posted years ago The internals are probably prehistoric and you will probably need to update em but anyway
NAS
Hlis93 ·
here a simple example. Knobs, buttons, lamps, and the faders. The faders are simple but hold up well against the other panel elments that have much more going on. Basically think in terms of set of unique panel elements instead of a group of this or that avoid having to go back latter on. But that is just me...
or this which is very simple...
Hlis93 ·
heres the exports loaded into SM...
set 7
set 8
cymsilly ·
Hlis93...those are great examples of how simplicity can look fantastic. I think I;ve been trying too hard tho make my sliders jump out, but in the end they have too much going on and the detail just ends up being blurred together...I've been re-inspired. Thank you!
Hlis93 ·
I am sure that you have seen this stuff here http://www.artvera-music.com/ by Artvera. Sets a great example for noobs like me.
cymsilly ·
I made this out of an animated knob module...stripped out the mouse control and the stuff not needed. Just load any knobman VU's you've made just like selecting the file for an animated knob, enter the cell height and width and that's it...VU made easy!
Oh ya. Hlis93, the VU here shows the general numbering layout of most VU metering faces.
aliasant ·
Oh ya. Hlis93, the VU here shows the general numbering layout of most VU metering faces
But is it accurate?
cymsilly ·
I don't know if it's accurate. I'd assume not. i just threw the VU together for an example. I've been wanting an easy way to get a stitched bitmap to load and use as a VU. That's all. I haven't got that far yet.
aliasant ·
cymsilly wrote: I don't know if it's accurate. I'd assume not. i just threw the VU together for an example. I've been wanting an easy way to get a stitched bitmap to load and use as a VU. That's all. I haven't got that far yet.
ok. I dont use stiched strips for vus anymore. I use a graph line and rotate it. Then all I need is a background of a vu + a second graphline with low alpha and maybe a little thicker then the first one to use as a shadow.
You can have a look at my plugins on my website to see how that looks. Works good enough for me.
Nu Audio Science ·
Its actually possible to make a png sequence as accurate as digitally possible for VUs You dont use a sequence though you use seperate images 😉
NAS
cymsilly ·
aliasant wrote: You can have a look at my plugins on my website to see how that looks. Works good enough for me.
Yeah I've seen your work before...You are truly gifted! Your GUI's are amazing!
aliasant ·
cymsilly wrote: aliasant wrote: You can have a look at my plugins on my website to see how that looks. Works good enough for me.
Yeah I've seen your work before...You are truly gifted! Your GUI's are amazing!
Thanx 😊
Im just one of many here.
cymsilly ·
Here is another VU. Was wondering if anyone could tell me if it's close to being right(callibrated). I don't know how to callibrate it, but I do think I'm close. Any help would be great.
bootsy ·
cymsilly wrote: Here is another VU. Was wondering if anyone could tell me if it's close to being right(callibrated). I don't know how to callibrate it, but I do think I'm close. Any help would be great.
nice one! I do have a paper on proper metering, but it's german language only.
cymsilly ·
More Knobs...........
cymsilly ·
I'm sure this one won't be a useable knob. Just wanted to show how versatile Knobman is.
bootsy ·
you are crazy 😉
nix ·
teehee
TheAudiophileDutchman ·
Great stuff! 😀
Lothissen ·
great stuff smysilly, just got synthmaker and these've got me wanting to program my own synth right away!
infuzion ·
Lothissen wrote: great stuff smysilly, just got synthmaker and these've got me wanting to program my own synth right away!
Welcome to SM Lothissen
20081225 ·
Very original, dude! This has a lot of work.
djn12inch ·
hello guys, im new to this and im pretty much a slow learner, ive made a simple synth just to get to grips with things and to test stuff out, ive downloaded the knobs off of here and dont know how to put them on!!! for example id like to replace one on the amp??? could some one please please help!....
thanx, djn12inch!
djn12inch ·
it ok now ive done it.... yhay!!!!
Jee ·
djn12inch wrote: it ok now ive done it.... yhay!!!!
could you tell me more please I'm also new to that stuff and I'm not getting results with knobman soft that looks excellent but useless for the moment 🙁 I can't figure how yo use the image strips that it provides and what format to use 😕
cymsilly ·
Jee wrote: djn12inch wrote: it ok now ive done it.... yhay!!!!
could you tell me more please I'm also new to that stuff and I'm not getting results with knobman soft that looks excellent but useless for the moment 🙁 I can't figure how yo use the image strips that it provides and what format to use 😕
Export all your files to .png with alpha. take note of the pixel size (X and Y) so you can input that into your animated knob in SM. i found that 101 frames works pretty good too. as far as the quality of your knobs...it just take practice. keep working on it you'll get it!
electrogear ·
Just wanted to say thanks to Hlis93 I used your sliders in my first Max/MSP project HTS2 (Harmonic Table Sequencer) although it's actually the first version, not sure why I felt the need to call it 2, guess that's just what I'm into these days 😊
EDIT: Sorry I've had to remove the image for certain reasons. Will put it back up soon!
philter5 ·
this looks really great! 😍
bootsy ·
WTF - was is that?
philter5 ·
have a look at this, i am not sure but i think it´s based on this harmonic table HARMONIC TABLE
electrogear ·
philter5 wrote: have a look at this, i am not sure but i think it´s based on this harmonic table HARMONIC TABLE
Exactly, spot on! That's where I took the idea from. Mine doesn't have a built in drum sampler like the reacTogon, but I am working on version 3 already, or should that be version 4 😀
You can however have multiple starting tiles which I think is something the reacTogon is missing, although I may be wrong. Sound-wise it's probably the best synth I've ever made too, although it was kind of a last minute thing but you know when you've been learning for years and then eventually everything comes together? Well this is it...
I'll post a video on Youtube tomorrow and put up the link, not sure what to do about releasing it. Technically the University owns it 😠 and Max/MSP doesn't have plug-in export facilities so it would have to be opened in Max Runtime (which I think is free).
robrokken ·
cymsilly wrote: Here is another VU. Was wondering if anyone could tell me if it's close to being right(callibrated). I don't know how to callibrate it, but I do think I'm close. Any help would be great.
Anyone else having a problem with the GUI disapearing while overloading ? Almost like anytime a signal clips, the GUI disapears...
~Rob.
Nu Audio Science ·
Yeah cause it is showing frames that don't exist
NAS
Andrew J ·
Use a clipper before the input.
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