Of course not! If anything, I worry that I’m always being too opinionated. You guys are seriously all great and there is never any harm taken on my side. We evaluate the ideas not the people
I agree, the new knobs look much better and I agree the old font is maybe easier to read, and the iconography. I think a new design that resembles the old design more but with nicer knobs and stuff would be ideal!
@spunktsch 's design can for sure be used. Maybe a middle ground is the way forward
it looks very nice and I like the OB-Xd letters to the left.
I like that you went for the same spacing of the voice variation parameters like the voice pan knobs and that you didn’t abbreviate all parameter names.
Looks nice! I think somehow I had to update to the latest 1.12RC? didn’t see the modgui before I did that.
Needs a couple more handles to move it around (in between the knobs) and double-click to zoom doesn’t seem to work either.
Other than that very nice! I like this clean design. Maybe a couple more small touch-ups, but it’s almost there I think!
What I would like to see (continuing with design #2):
Improve the alignment and layout of controls. If you see the original, the controls have a tighter layout with clean alignment that I think could be adapted
Usually, I would opt to remove things like side ears on rack units or the timber end plates but in this case, I think the wood end plates make sense for recognisability but they could be slim. The right side doesn’t really work with rounded corners because it means you need to have an empty strip there so it might as well be wood.
I think I prefer the buttons from the #1 as the indicator is bigger making it easier to read. It would be good to use these with more original colours
Knobs with indicator rings would be great for readability at a glance
Adding the logo, fonts and iconography like the original would be great
Adding the LCD displays would also be cool
@spunktsch Just want to say that the work you have done is awesome! these are suggestions that I think would improve it in my subjective opinion. I mean no disrespect at all. Internally we always go through this process of revisions and reviews. Criticism should be constructive and never personal. I’m really excited by what you are doing so please, if my comments are discouraging, let me know, because I want to be encouraging!
thanks @James for the feedback. I know this is a public forum and you explaining things for everyone but don’t worry about discouragement - at least on my part. Your comments are constructive and spot on with most things. I’m pretty familiar with the process in design work and know that revisions are standard practice. Even throwing out 80% of work to get the 20% done is not uncommon. (at least I got better at that ration over the past years )
On the suggestions: I’ll try to implement most of it. Some stuff has to be changed in the plugin .ttl (legatomode and voices should be enumerated lists).
I’ll have to check the licensing if I use the original logos and fonts.
The indicator rings and LCD will probably be the last thing because I don’t want to use sprites and need to figure out how to style or rotate svgs on current values.