1) First thing I thought when opening the new interfaceOne gui suggestion: When the tabs fill up, could you compress them to visually make room for more […]
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, and really F1 F2 F3… would be plenty -- I don't need "Filter" to be spelled out 10 times. So: request seconded. Also: tabs contain a lot of whitespace (between the On/Off button and "Osc 1", or between "Osc 1" and the gear icon for example).2) Likewise with the "2 LFO's at the same time", Pigments style request from Sleepwalker: seconded.
3) Third suggestion: when picking a waveform in an oscillator (or LFO), have it be clear where the current waveform resides in the search tree / popup-menus. I now have e.q. "Fr4 - Moog Rogue" selected in Osc 1, but where in the hierarchy did I pick it from? There's no clue that it's down this path:
Single Cycle Waveforms > Factory > Moog > Fr4 - Moog Rogue
It would be nice if every level in this hierarchy would e.g. have a bullet in front of it to indicate the current selection. So in the top level popup menu you'd now have "• Single Cycle Waveforms", and in that menu you'd have "• Factory" in which you'd have "• Moog" which finally contained "• Fr4 - Moog Rogue".
4) Fourth suggestion: the GUI could be a lot wider. The basic layout is now 2 x 2 panels plus a Mod matrix column, but using a 16:9 aspect ratio (as most monitors nowadays have) it could easily be 3 x 2 panels. Might solve suggestion 2 as well
.5) The GUI could use a bit of colour -- in a functional manner. LFO's are green, ADSR's are blue… that kind of functional use of colour (see, again, Pigments). That helps the eye in determining where to look for certain functionalities. Now it's all the same grey-ish colour and everything looks like everything else. That's what effectively kept me from using SM2 -- the boring monochromatic look that didn't help me focus on the things I wanted to focus on.
6) No suggestion but a compliment: SM3 already looks way better than SM2, and the functionality seems to be out of this world. Zebra's modularity added to a SM2 on steroids.
Statistics: Posted by chaosmeister — Sat Dec 30, 2023 4:36 pm