[sdiy] Control Interface Angst </ Wakeman>

[Nicolas Fournel]

I totally agree on both points. These soft synth
interfaces are way too small. And moving a knob with
the mouse isn't ergomomic at all, but... in a lot of
cases, knobs let you put more controls on a smaller
surface!!!. Glen, you might want to give a look to the
Synth1 VSTi. You can resize it's interface and a
slider appears when you click to edit a parameter. On
the other hand, the sound is really digital (no
bandlimited osclillators etc...). Oh well...

Nicolas
  

--- Glen <mclilith at charter.net> wrote:
> At 11:53 AM 7/8/03 , Paul Maddox wrote:
> 
> >By sliders I dont mean ' a slider' but a sort of
> Bar Graph that you can
> >click and hold on, but they need to be bigger than
> 30 pixels :-)
> 
> I also think sliders are probably better than rotary
> controls. I would add
> that having a numeric readout next to the slider
> would be helpful. Also,
> some provision for fine adjustment would be nice. A
> lot of these controls
> on VSTi's are rather touchy. I'm not sure, but I
> think Cubase has something
> like this, if you hold "shift" (or something) when
> moving a knob or slider.
> If all hosts have something like this, great. If
> not, it should be built
> into the plugin.
> 
> One *big* question about softsynths:  
> Why are the GUI's usually so darn small and hard to
> read? I hate this
> aspect of most of them. Why can't we scale the GUI
> (fonts, controls and
> all) to whatever size we need? I would either have
> to drop my monitor
> resolution to 640x480, or use a magnifying glass to
> read a lot of the fonts
> used in these things. Can't we at least have a few
> alternative "skins" that
> are created in different sizes?
> 
> 
> later,
> Glen Berry