[LAU] ANNOUNCE: PHASEX v0.10.0

[Thorsten Wilms]

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 08:15:58PM -0700, William Weston wrote:

> 	http://sysex.net/phasex/

> Since this is the first public release of PHASEX with a GUI, feedback is
> highly encouraged.  The project goal is to provide a synthesizer to
> experimental and professional musicians alike that is as easy and
> enjoyable to use as it is powerful.  The next batch of new parameters and
> features will be a result of feedback from the community, so please, don't
> be shy.


Quite a beast! Very promising.

Hmm, I miss adjustable velocity influence at least for cutoff, but 
better everything. Same for aftertouch.

The middle and right-click on labels is an interesting idea and the 
explanation texts are very nice. A highlighting effect on mouse-over could 
give a hint that the labels are clickable. Oh, and you could have used 
left-click. A statusbar could show as much as possible of the texts and 
point to middle-clicking to see more. The MIDI binding could also be shown 
in a statusbar.

"Memroy Mode"? ;)

I think I understand what you want to achieve with the patch handling, 
but those 3 modes are just scary. I would like to have a patch browser. 
If there are changes to a patch and the user switches to another one, 
you could always create a "buffer" and list it as child of the original 
patch. Then there should be options to save the buffer over the original, 
or to save it as new patch.

I like to keep my patches in project folders (everything belonging 
to a project in one folder). Makes backup and restore easier. So I 
can save a patch anywhere, but how does the patch bar at the bottom 
of the window behave, then?

LASH support would be good.
http://lash.nongnu.org/

The Patch menu items really belong into File.

Multiple instances in one would be helpfull if you want to do a full 
arrangement. Would be like running several instances, except that 
they're accessible via one window and appear as one module with 
several i/o pots to the outside world.

You could use a single checkbox in those cases where you have 
Off/On radio buttons.

I recently saw a Korg mixer that uses red and blue lighted circles 
around its knobs to indicate wether they're bound to MIDI or not.

I hope you had or will have a look at
http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/not-knobs-5/
http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/fan-sliders/
and especially
http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/sliders-with-text/
;)


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