3 May
2007
3 May
'07
9:52 a.m.
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 08:15:58PM -0700, William Weston wrote:
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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Thorsten Wilms
Thorwil's Design for Free Software:
http://thorwil.wordpress.com